Example sentences of "[adj] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were certainly very clear twenty years ago according to the regional and county data analysed by Coates and Rawstron ( 1971 ) . |
| 2 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 3 | The success of his three operas for Italy , Artaserse ( 1760 ) , Catone in Utica ( 1761 ) , and Alessandro nell' Indie ( 1762 ) , prompted an invitation to compose two works for the King 's Theatre , London , and in 1762 Bach travelled to London , where he spent the remaining twenty years of his life as the dominant musical figure in the city , thereby earning the sobriquet ‘ the London Bach ’ . |
| 4 | Within a mere twenty years of the murder of Valentinian III the Romans had accustomed themselves to new political circumstances , and the barbarian rulers had taken over many of the duties which had formerly been exercised by provincial governors as well as military leaders . |
| 5 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 6 | The anti-papal propaganda of the preceding twenty years had not been without effect , but more importantly there remained considerable anxiety about the new queen 's plans for the vast amount of ecclesiastical land which had been acquired by the laity . |
| 7 | It was an enormous leap , which he was able to make by virtue of the professional competence and political significance he had built up over the preceding twenty years . |
| 8 | Those born between 1987–88 can expect to live an additional twenty years . |
| 9 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |
| 10 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 11 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 12 | Over the previous twenty years we had become preoccupied with structural arguments about regions and areas when we should have been concerned about how the service was run . |
| 13 | It obtained an injunction ordering enclosures made during the previous twenty years , amounting to nearly 3,000 acres , to be thrown down , and restraining further enclosures . |
| 14 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 15 | Our campaign soon led us to investigate the finances of the National Land Fund , which over the previous twenty years had been used to acquire a whole series of country houses for the nation . |
| 16 | Much of what he attempted was undoubtedly justified , since he came to a diocese in a state of confusion after the upheavals of the previous twenty years , with many of its churches staffed by ignorant time-servers . |
| 17 | The proposed merger called into question Britain 's civil aviation policy of the previous twenty years . |
| 18 | The grant was voted more because Charles ended disputes over land titles running over the previous twenty years than because the West Indians believed they ought to support the English Exchequer , but a permanent colonial contribution to the home government was — at least for England — a new and interesting departure , though one that had no sequel . |
| 19 | In British political life of the previous twenty years , latent anti-Jewish feeling had been apt to surface in response to particular events . |
| 20 | In December 1973 , Mr John Morris MP asked how many judges had carried out non-judicial duties in the form of inquiries , commissions and reports , or similar tasks , during the previous twenty years . |
| 21 | Although he had had a distinguished military record as a young man , he was sixty-two and had been engaged in predominantly civil duties for the previous twenty years . |
| 22 | He had a limited vocabulary and she had stopped telling him not to be blasphemous twenty years ago . |
| 23 | The last new clothes she had was when she married twenty years before . |
| 24 | Christ , you better not be married twenty years , Karen , you might end up with another twelve . |
| 25 | But they stopped it I 'm sure twenty years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ They 're a good twenty years younger , and they 've only known them a year or two . |
| 27 | I , m told that the day he brought it in — a good twenty years ago — he said that because his daughter was blind there was no point in its remaining in the cottage . |
| 28 | Good twenty years older than my Grandmother , right . |
| 29 | If he died on 14 December 705 he would have reigned a full twenty years and probably several months as well . |
| 30 | The renewal fees become progressively steeper throughout the life of the patent and most patents do not run the full twenty years . |