Example sentences of "twenty years of [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together .
2 During the twenty years of worry and despair she had not cried .
3 The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job .
4 Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made .
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6 It is perhaps necessary to set the scene for this remarkable decade in the history of the District to show the ways in which the firm foundation for subsequent growth and consolidation was secured following a period of more than twenty years of uncertainty and improvision .
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