Example sentences of "[adj] twenty years ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here is a true marriage of traditional methods and equipment with modern health and hygiene requirements — their vat , tools and press are old equipment that was purchased from an elderly cheesemaker some twenty years ago , together with the recipe for the cheese . |
| 2 | Some twenty years ago , as a very young and inexperienced social worker , I and some colleagues working in a social services team decided that we would run a bereavement group . |
| 3 | Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings . |
| 4 | These biting and critical words come from those writing from within the Church , and the fact they were written some twenty years ago has not , lamentably , altered their truth and pertinence . |
| 5 | Their paths first crossed some twenty years ago when a mutual friend , the poet Craig Raine , introduced they to one another in the Blackfriar pub off Fleet Street . |
| 6 | SOME twenty years ago I met Jim Pilbeam as a fellow activist in the Chester branch of the WEA . |
| 7 | In the United States the Supreme Court ruled some twenty years ago that " the weight of a citizen 's vote can not be made to depend on where he lives " . |
| 8 | CMHCs developed in the United States and first appeared in Britain some twenty years ago . |
| 9 | Some twenty years ago a single font would have cost you around $4,500 . |
| 10 | They were certainly very clear twenty years ago according to the regional and county data analysed by Coates and Rawstron ( 1971 ) . |
| 11 | He had a limited vocabulary and she had stopped telling him not to be blasphemous twenty years ago . |
| 12 | But they stopped it I 'm sure twenty years ago . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She began to see herself , the self of those twenty years ago , as just a part of Willi and Gerda 's pleasure . |
| 15 | Most current procedures for recording the electrical activity of the brain , or producing radiographic images of the living human brain , or investigating the accuracy and timing of behaviour are dependent on computing capacity which was not available twenty years ago . |
| 16 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 17 | If the army could not do the job unaided twenty years ago , it is even less likely to get involved now . |
| 18 | There was nothing like that twenty years ago . ’ |
| 19 | One is that twenty years ago , one would have predicted that local radio and radio in general would be dead by now . |