Example sentences of "twenty-five years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw my first reed bunting 's nest in 1964 in the marsh between the lochs of Spiggie and Brow , and now in the space of twenty-five years they have successfully colonised the islands , and theirs is the only bunting song that today 's Shetland children will know … |
| 2 | After twenty-five years we can indeed see much response to Dei Verbum , but it is still limited . |
| 3 | She had had fewer than a dozen poems published in magazines — usually small , regional ones — during the twenty-five years she had been writing . |
| 4 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 5 | Within twenty-five years it was . |
| 6 | For twenty-five years he painstakingly amassed evidence to support it . |
| 7 | For the next twenty-five years he held a series of appointments as minister : St Thomas 's Square , Hackney ( 1880–5 ) ; Cheetham Hill Congregational church , Manchester ( 1885–8 ) ; Clarendon Park , Leicester ( 1888–94 ) ; and Emmanuel church , Cambridge ( 1894–1901 ) . |
| 8 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |