Example sentences of "twenty years the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 2 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |
| 3 | Over the last twenty years the starkest examples of operations cancelled , lives put at danger and waiting lists increased have been the result of industrial disputes . |
| 4 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 5 | Within twenty years the immense complexity of British power had been perfectly represented in the greatest station ever built in India , the remarkable Victoria Terminus in Bombay . |