Example sentences of "twenty years ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 2 | Twenty years ago lager accounted for less than 10 per cent of total beer sales . |
| 3 | ‘ Twenty years ago I would have liked to have been a cook elsewhere , ’ she admits . |
| 4 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , though , we are not very much closer to a genuine explanation of amnesia in functional terms that we were twenty years ago . |
| 6 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 7 | Twenty years ago , in all innocence , the occupant of my house stuck up a little fence , 15ft long , inside his own boundary . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , I should be wanting , as twenty years ago , to lean with all my weight in that direction . |
| 9 | I should , again as twenty years ago , be the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's best friend . |
| 10 | It is very clear that today 's parents do n't fit the mould that society defined for them twenty years ago . |
| 11 | In Cambridge , twenty years ago . |
| 12 | The notion that the media have ‘ amplified ’ football violence may have been tenable ten or twenty years ago , but the current scale of hooliganism does not appear to be much exaggerated by the media . |
| 13 | He had a limited vocabulary and she had stopped telling him not to be blasphemous twenty years ago . |
| 14 | ‘ They call themselves McCloy Ltd. , ’ Burden said wearily , ‘ but the last member of the firm of that name died twenty years ago . |
| 15 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 16 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 17 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 18 | Twenty years ago , to almost universal applause , he defied the Kremlin ; ten years later he was an honoured guest , staying at Buckingham Palace ; today , he is seen as a Stalinist dinosaur who deserves little better than assassination . |
| 19 | ‘ Twenty years ago , when the crackdown came , our film-makers got much verbal encouragement from the West but no real support at all . |
| 20 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 21 | Here is a true marriage of traditional methods and equipment with modern health and hygiene requirements — their vat , tools and press are old equipment that was purchased from an elderly cheesemaker some twenty years ago , together with the recipe for the cheese . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago liberal justices on the court laid down a series of laws against discriminatory employment practices . |
| 23 | Twenty years ago the treasurer 's job was simple and none too arduous . |
| 24 | Twenty years ago mid-western steel workers could earn $20 an hour ; today , it is hard to find replacement jobs in the service industries that offer $6–7 an hour . |
| 25 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
| 26 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 27 | Twenty years ago , there was uproar . |
| 28 | Twenty years ago , officials admit , it was an amateurish , informal process . |
| 29 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |
| 30 | I , m told that the day he brought it in — a good twenty years ago — he said that because his daughter was blind there was no point in its remaining in the cottage . |