Example sentences of "twenty years in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henley , while maintaining its independence , has been associated with Brunel for over twenty years in the development and administration of post graduate management degrees . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 11 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |