Example sentences of "[noun] of the [num ord] twenty years " in BNC.

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1 Venice Restored takes stock of the first twenty years of conservation in the Serenissima after the disastrous flood of 1966 .
2 Early candidates for this treatment among industrial buildings , and prior to the enthusiasms of the last twenty years .
3 Interestingly , though , most of the audition selections are chosen from work of the last twenty years ; most young students will go for contemporary work .
4 A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years .
5 I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom .
6 If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant .
7 Only after 1922 , with the war at last receding from memory and coalition over , did the party take the decisions that led to its successes of the next twenty years .
8 Hence the belated and misguided call from Kenneth Baker for longer school days — again betraying a rather narrow view of the use of time — which has been one of the unremarked and growing features of secondary curriculum development of the last twenty years .
9 And it was sectional organisations such as these which best survived the vicissitudes of the next twenty years , though Wilson 's own creation was bankrupt by 1894 and was only subsequently revived with difficulty .
10 Ricimer more than anyone else dominated the politics of the last twenty years of the Roman Empire in the west .
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