Example sentences of "in [art] [num ord] 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first 20 years of the Survey 's activities in Scotland , practically all of the central and southern parts of the country had been surveyed on the 6-inch scale and manuscript copies of the field maps made for public reference . |
| 2 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 3 | In the next 20 years , the use of cars is estimated to increase by 70 per cent . |
| 4 | One paper at the conference predicted that the heat pump companies can cut overall costs by at least 25 per cent in the next 20 years . |
| 5 | There seems to be a general expectation that the tiny societies will finally disappear in the next 20 years . |
| 6 | The number of people over 85 will rise by 54 per cent in the next 20 years , threatening a ‘ health care catastrophe , ’ the British Medical Association said yesterday … it adds : ‘ the general treatment of the frail elderly by the state is a scandal . |
| 7 | NUREG has subsequently calculated that there is a 45 per cent chance of an accident similar to Three Mile Island happening in the next 20 years . |
| 8 | The marketeers and production people were planning dramatic growth in car sales in the next 20 years , but the corporate planners were pointing to a problem which would severely limit car sales — a worldwide shortage of trained chauffeurs ! |
| 9 | But EEI President Thomas Kuhn acknowledged that even the most optimistic environmentalists do not believe anything like that number of electric vehicles will be on the streets , even in the next 20 years . |
| 10 | In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report . |
| 11 | The government announced plans last October to build a further 30 reactors in the next 20 years , which would bring nuclear power 's share of the country 's electricity generating capacity to 17 per cent . |
| 12 | A US Department of Energy report has predicted output to rise from 890 million tonnes to 1,240 million tonnes in the next 20 years . |
| 13 | At least 10,000 hectares of the English shoreline will disappear in the next 20 years , according to a report published by English Nature , the government 's official conservation adviser . |
| 14 | Rapid economic development has vastly increased demand for water in recent years , and the expansion is expected to continue : the water needs of the urban population are expected to increase by 45 per cent in the next 20 years , with industry requiring 30 per cent more water and agriculture 14 per cent more . |
| 15 | In the last 20 years there have been three major price booms — 1972/73 , 1979/80 and the most recent from 1985 to 1988 . |
| 16 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 17 | Clints have been quarried for rockeries at a markedly increasing rate in the last 20 years , according to a Dales National Park report . |
| 18 | The party has scarcely advanced in the last 20 years , and its brave new policy of ‘ independence in Europe ’ has proved a fine slogan , but not a convincing one . |
| 19 | What was the most memorable moment of Modern architecture in the last 20 years ? |
| 20 | These are the areas in which the remaining forest lands are located ; now only 22 per cent of the country is forested in comparison to nearly 100 per cent in 1900 and 66 per cent in 1945 ( Myers 1988 ) , which in itself constitutes a loss of revenue as timber exports ( a major source of foreign currency ) have declined in the last 20 years . |
| 21 | World Travel Organisation data ( quoted in Pearce 1987 ) reflect a trebling of international tourist arrivals in the last 20 years , reaching 284 million in 1984 as compared with 93 million in 1963 . |
| 22 | The involvement of additives may explain why the incidence of hyperkinetic syndrome seems to have increased dramatically in the last 20 years — a period that has seen the meteoric rise of ‘ junk food ’ , take-aways and instant-everything . |
| 23 | KAILZEE GARDENS , Nr Peebles , Scotland Spring , summer and autumn are well represented in the gardens which have been re-created in the last 20 years . |
| 24 | I hope the majority of regular readers of this column appreciate a broad spectrum of modern , popular music styles ; after last month 's metal mayhem , we now have Martin Rooms of Leicester to thank for requesting an article on the track One Of Us from the album ‘ The Visitors ’ by one of the purest pop acts to emerge in the last 20 years , ABBA . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ The Airbus has been the most successful venture into the civilian aerospace industry in the last 20 years . ’ |
| 26 | He asks you for details of the players in the last 20 years who have won First Division championship medals with two different clubs . |
| 27 | There has been widespread concern in the last 20 years that children from Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities are underachieving in British schools and , therefore , are at a disadvantage in entering further and higher education , acquiring professional and technical qualifications and in finding employment . |
| 28 | Despite the considerable volumes of research conducted in the field of child abuse in the last 20 years , there are still large gaps in our knowledge concerning the phenomenon . |
| 29 | Psychologists in the last 20 years have had to rediscover much of what was already known and practised by the 1860s . |
| 30 | Yorkshire 's winning of the B&H Cup in 1987 was achieved with performances of consistent excellence which represent one of the county 's most vigorous periods in the last 20 years . |