Example sentences of "[adv] twenty years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Friday Daley Thompson successfully beat off the German challenge and retained his decathlon crown , and Roger Black , just twenty years of age , added not only a European title to his Commonwealth gold but a new British record as well . |
| 2 | The poor have lost the ability to campaign after nearly twenty years of repression … |
| 3 | After almost twenty years of delays , confusion and mismanagement , it eventually cost £3.5 billion , about five times as much . |
| 4 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 5 | The woman who died of cancer and left the poems expressing her soul 's pain written over twenty years of marriage on the kitchen window sill , for her husband to find , was saying that no one in that house had respected her pain sufficiently to share it . |