Example sentences of "[adv] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 2 | Until perhaps twenty years ago , it would have been pointless to speak of a radical tradition in British adult education in isolation from the organised labour movement . |
| 3 | you just walk in and like , it was there and I would have said it was old when we arrived , and we 've been there nineteen perhaps twenty years . |
| 4 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 5 | erm Indeed one of the sad things perhaps at the lowest level is how many jobs are requiring mathematical skills that , that perhaps twenty years ago were n't assumed . |
| 6 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 7 | Yet only twenty years later the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield was the focus of the attention of around twenty million viewers as Steve Davis was defeated on the final ball of the final frame by Dennis Taylor , who became the world champion in what The Times ( won over to ‘ popular culture ’ under its antipodean ownership ) declared to be a ‘ heart-stopping ’ match . |
| 8 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 9 | We also know that people who have lost a limb , or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 11 | Harris opened his first London gallery in 1928 when only twenty years old , concentrating largely on Spanish Old Masters , and held his last and widely acclaimed exhibition ‘ From Greco to Goya ’ in November 1938 , during the Spanish Civil War , all proceeds going to the Red Cross . |
| 12 | I think that had I grown up with my parents only twenty years before , I would not now believe this . |
| 13 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 14 | The office of Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland existed for only twenty years , terminating in 1948 . |
| 15 | The only thing , the only thing that all of us said categorically is they were fired upon first , but the trouble is they 've had fucking twenty years to , to think up their side and so there 's that so |
| 16 | This self-obsession , the looking inwards and away from the real world , represents a full circle turned in approximately twenty years , and this time it has official sanction and encouragement . |
| 17 | The researchers will focus on the development , over approximately twenty years , of a small number of significant technologies , and within these investigate the role of competing firms and the specific environments in which innovations were adopted and improved . |
| 18 | Exactly twenty years after their collaboration for that extraordinary presentation of Henry Moore in Florence , Caro 's exhibition reunites the powerful curatorial vision of Professor Giovanni Carandente with the British Council . |
| 19 | For Lady Diana Spencer , just twenty years old , it was the most thrilling day of her life . |
| 20 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 21 | On the Friday Daley Thompson successfully beat off the German challenge and retained his decathlon crown , and Roger Black , just twenty years of age , added not only a European title to his Commonwealth gold but a new British record as well . |
| 22 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 23 | She 's just twenty years old . |
| 24 | Tonnage engaged in English and Welsh coastal shipping increased from 101,475 tons in 1760 to 160,931 tons in 1780 , an increase of 58.6 per cent in just twenty years . |
| 25 | Under twenty years of military rule , its output has grown to make Brazil the world 's largest agricultural exporter after the United States . |
| 26 | Nothing much had happened in my life since the publication of my Carlo Fontana book nearly twenty years earlier ( though even that , as only three hundred copies were sold , was hardly a riot ) . |
| 27 | And now , nearly twenty years after it was well and truly over , she sometimes still reeled late at night with not understanding . |
| 28 | Francis Thomson , the man who for nearly twenty years has been promising to write a biography of Alan Blumlein is once again appealing for more material on Blumlein . |
| 29 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 30 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |