Example sentences of "twenty years [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer-based courseware has been in action for over twenty years with considerable effect although the quality of materials has been patchy . |
| 2 | Well , how about this for a scenario : twenty years of solid touring and recording for major names ; a niche in the elite ‘ who 's who ’ of session guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic ; featured on television three times a week backing major artists live on a very hip chat show ; going straight into production for another live prime-time show on Saturday nights ; and work with Tom Jones , Al Jarreau , Stevie Wonder , Mica Paris , Cindi Lauper , Bob Geldof and Curtis Stigers , to name but a few . |
| 3 | This event led to a after more than twenty years of intermittent war . |
| 4 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |
| 5 | In twenty years of psychic work , Marjorie Quigley had never yet refused her fence . |
| 6 | Reptile in charge of Magic Roundabout clearly loathes children after twenty years of roundabout rides , encourages smallest most ill-coordinated kids to perch on top of vast heaving wood and plaster horse in hope that when ride begins movement will hurl child into machinery for ever . |
| 7 | To mark twenty years of loyal service , Hugh Anderson was presented with an inscribed watch by the Managing Director , Andrew Steel ( left ) . |
| 8 | After around twenty years of virtual silence , except for chimes at the occasional wedding , the sixteenth century church bells are finally back in place . |
| 9 | Twenty years of criminal neglect ( 60p ) : How Labour has abdicated responsibility for Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | Behind you are more than twenty years of habit-forming obedience to the house rules — and why not ? |
| 11 | Twenty years of industrial strife had ensured that an industry where we were once world leaders was an object of pity and derision . |
| 12 | Paul , in these verses , allows himself the chance to look back with his readers , and see the results of twenty years of Christian service . |
| 13 | The flame from its mouth passed over the western lands like a comet and woke millennial longings in the hearts of Roman legionaries , who eked out their twenty years of cold service dreaming of victories and of eating fresh figs under the olive trees of home . |
| 14 | ‘ It all looks ludicrous now ’ , observed David Widgery , ‘ but if you realize there had been twenty years of Cold War normalism this was a very exuberant reaction to the world of Pepsodent ads , and the father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal ? kind of thing which was still the prevailing mentality . |
| 15 | Under twenty years of military rule , its output has grown to make Brazil the world 's largest agricultural exporter after the United States . |
| 16 | BI TVAS A reverie lasting more than twenty years on geological themes |
| 17 | BI TOSI A reverie lasting more than twenty years on cosmological themes |
| 18 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 19 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 20 | Twenty years in English prisons . |