Example sentences of "twenty years of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 2 | The last twenty years of his life were spent in retirement ; indeed , he had to write to the Sunday Times in 1963 to point out that he was not , as they had reported , dead . |
| 3 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
| 4 | The success of his three operas for Italy , Artaserse ( 1760 ) , Catone in Utica ( 1761 ) , and Alessandro nell' Indie ( 1762 ) , prompted an invitation to compose two works for the King 's Theatre , London , and in 1762 Bach travelled to London , where he spent the remaining twenty years of his life as the dominant musical figure in the city , thereby earning the sobriquet ‘ the London Bach ’ . |
| 5 | For the last twenty years of his life his bronchitis made him take holidays on the French Riviera ; Frith says of these later years that he ‘ fell back upon books and art , nature , love and poetry ’ . |
| 6 | During the last twenty years of his life , however , he suffered from increasing deafness and the effects of an internal complaint , in consequence of which ‘ he withdrew much from society , and lived very retired . ’ |
| 7 | He was probably born before 1130 , and if so , the place of his birth was probably London , with which he also had close associations in the last twenty years of his life . |
| 8 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 9 | For the next twenty years of his reign he fought against the Byzantines to establish Serbia 's independence . |
| 10 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |