Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for twenty [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
2 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
3 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
4 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
5 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
6 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
7 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
8 | There 's the lamps showing Lot number one O eight there we are showing for twenty pounds at twenty pounds for the lamps at twenty pounds anyone anyone want them ? |
9 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
10 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |