Example sentences of "twenty years ['s] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In twenty years ' work on the Mesozoic Brachiopoda , I have found plenty of relationships , but few if any evolving lineages . |
| 2 | causing bad feeling or trying to upset her trade , I mean we know she 's rubbish but erm I , I said er I just said well the children who enjoy it enjoy it I said but he never really settled and er we felt that between us we 'd got over twenty years ' experience of working with children , we reckoned we knew a little bit more about what makes children tick . |
| 3 | Twenty years ' celebration for exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery |
| 4 | After twenty years ' exposure to religious scrutiny , if deemed worthy and untarnished , this votive tablet would be transferred to the Reclusiam itself . |
| 5 | In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers , terrorist killings , murder during robbery , and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children , fixing a minimum of twenty years ' imprisonment for these offenders . |
| 6 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |
| 7 | After twenty years ' teaching at Goldsmiths ' College in South London , mostly as head of fine art , Jon Thompson has been headhunted by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht . |
| 8 | I would have done anything for Charlie , and was , in fact , even now sorting out twenty years ' worth of his possessions . |
| 9 | She pressed it with her tongue , as she had pressed hundreds , thousands now , over twenty years ' worth of these papery discs stamped with crosses , made by nuns . |
| 10 | Some limited home responsibilities protection was introduced in April 1978 in order to help women in this position , but in order to qualify for a full pension they still require twenty years ' worth of contributions or credits . |
| 11 | We 're taking people on in the copy group and we 've got twenty years ' worth of adverts . |
| 12 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 13 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 14 | For example , despite Odysseus ' twenty years ' absence from home , on his return neither he nor Penelope appear to have grown any older . |