Example sentences of "twenty years [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Huxley 's own book The Crayfish ( 1879 ) , written twenty years after the Origin had appeared , the development of crayfishes is a very unimportant part of the work , forming a confessedly hypothetical section at the end . |
| 2 | Visually Melton remains a railway centre even more than twenty years after the railway went . |
| 3 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 4 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 5 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |