Example sentences of "twenty years [prep] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most valuable lessons the Party had learnt during the initial twenty years of land reform was that socialism could only be achieved through stages . |
| 2 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 3 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 4 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 5 | Twenty years of club tours to the Midlands , Kent , Herts and Essex recorded for the delectation of those who enjoyed them . |
| 6 | BIUT TASH A reverie lasting more than twenty years on Har Dar Da themes ( cf ) |
| 7 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |
| 8 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 9 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 10 | Citations to theses peak , as earlier demonstrated , in the second year after deposit , and the rate of citation decreases rather rapidly ( although the spread of citations may extend up to twenty years after thesis deposit ) . |