Example sentences of "twenty years [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly twenty years with the company Trevor Clemmett , Sales Representative for Cambridge , Norfolk and Northants , retired at the end of January . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking the interest of the State in vocational guidance , registration and placement , and after-care , marks the beginning of its concern with wage-earning youth , which was to develop over the next twenty years with the formation of the Juvenile Organizations Committee in 1916 , the various measures to ameliorate juvenile unemployment between the wars , and the inauguration in 1939 of The ‘ Youth Service ’ , each of which was a response to economic and social pressures , and all of which refined and extended the image of youth . |
| 3 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 4 | Despite what brewers ' architects often allege , the life expectancy of such plastic window units is proving remarkably short — as little as five years for the fittings , and twenty years for the plastic itself , which is exhibiting distinct tendencies to warp and discolour with age . |
| 5 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 6 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 7 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 8 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 9 | To celebrate twenty years of the RIBA Heinz Gallery , an exhibition ( the 94th ) was held in May of a selection of recent acquisitions . |
| 10 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
| 11 | Within a mere twenty years of the murder of Valentinian III the Romans had accustomed themselves to new political circumstances , and the barbarian rulers had taken over many of the duties which had formerly been exercised by provincial governors as well as military leaders . |
| 12 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |
| 13 | Twenty years at the pinnacle of his profession had paid him handsomely and he accepted the accolades and the financial rewards as no more than his due . |
| 14 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 15 | We have already met this sorry postwar blues , with its nostalgic lament about the shallow artificiality of life in the concrete jungle , and its jaundiced appraisal of the overwhelming changes ‘ in these twenty years since the war ’ . |
| 16 | The community continued for twenty years under the leadership of his brother John after Nicholas 's death , with an interruption during the Civil War . |
| 17 | It 's Sunderland , and after about a hundred and twenty years under the sea , the lustre 's still lustrous ! ’ |
| 18 | What happens when you open up the market twenty years down the line , you realize that these industries are dinosaurs , they 're using technology that 's thirty years out of date . |
| 19 | We have seen that during a period of twenty years between the wars , town planning in Britain consolidated its position in local authority practice , consultant advocacy and professional solidarity , though little was achieved by way of addition to intellectual content or method . |
| 20 | Politicians of both parties have become increasingly concerned in the last twenty years about the problems of house-buyers , in the face of spiralling land and building costs and high rates of mortgage interest . |
| 21 | Generous discounts were available : 33 per cent off the market value for tenants of three years ' standing , rising by 1 per cent a year up to a maximum of 50 per cent after a total of twenty years as a tenant . |
| 22 | Henley , while maintaining its independence , has been associated with Brunel for over twenty years in the development and administration of post graduate management degrees . |
| 23 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 24 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |
| 25 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 26 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 27 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 28 | Twenty years in the House still had n't dampened his extraordinary enthusiasm for the job and his not unappealing surprise that he should actually be there . |
| 29 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 30 | ‘ Police , ’ one cop said , and he felt ridiculous , in full uniform , his truncheon out , but , twenty years in the job , he had never , in all his time , seen a house like this before . |