Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] twenty [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cabinet containing a television set , a camera , a video cassette recorder and other equipment has been installed in twenty homes . |
| 2 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 4 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 5 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 6 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 7 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 8 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 9 | Straightforward deliveries direct to readers took comparatively little time for ‘ ordinary ’ books housed in the Main Building : more than half ( 52% ) were delivered within ten minutes , and more than nine out of ten ( 92% ) had been delivered within twenty minutes . |
| 10 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 11 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 12 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 13 | Adkin New Homes Department has been established for twenty years , servicing a wide selection of large and small developments throughout Oxfordshire on behalf of our builder clients . |