Example sentences of "twenty years [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom , and then you 're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you ca n't remember what happens next . ’ |
| 2 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 3 | The growth of the industrial proletariat convinced him that state education for all was essential , though in 1809 he asked : ‘ What can you expect of national education conducted by a government which for twenty years resisted the abolition of the Slave Trade ? ’ |
| 4 | Board of Trade officials had tried for nearly twenty years to change the policy of RPM . |
| 5 | Palestine disappeared from the map and Arab nationalism over the next twenty years emphasized the recovery of Palestine as the foremost duty of every Arab state . |
| 6 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 7 | I am an elected representative of the people of Northern Ireland , three thousand three hundred of our people have been murdered , that 's the equivalent of a hundred thousand people in Britain , it is the responsibility of every elected representative to do everything in their power , everything in their power , to stop that , The least responsibility that they have , the least they can do , is enter into dialogue directly with the people involved and I apologize to no-one for that , and if anybody is telling me that I 'm tainted because I do that , you know , I do n't know what sort of minds they 've got , because I think it 's our responsibility to do everything in our power to bring this violence to an end , and what 's more , what I 'm doing has massive support of ordinary people on both sections of our community because I have never in my twenty years experienced the nature of the support and the way that it 's being expressed to me by people in the streets , by telephone , and in particular by |
| 8 | She will meet Mrs Jones who has spent twenty years running a shelter for battered cats , and Mrs Jones is there . |
| 9 | There had been earlier studies of women writers , notably Myra Reynolds 's The Learned Lady in England 1650–1760 ( 1920 ) , and occasional studies of individual writers , but only in the past twenty years have the conditions obtained for a comprehensive reexamination of these writers . |
| 10 | He had spent the last twenty years attending the Party conference , four days of gin and oratory . |