Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early candidates for this treatment among industrial buildings , and prior to the enthusiasms of the last twenty years . |
| 2 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was probably born before 1130 , and if so , the place of his birth was probably London , with which he also had close associations in the last twenty years of his life . |
| 6 | After the nuclear debate , the greatest social issue facing Western countries in the next twenty years will be the lack of jobs for young adults aged 16 to 25 , especially in the depressed regions . |
| 7 | Few people can fail to be impressed by the rate of growth of both the animal protection and environmental movements in the last twenty years , or by the extraordinary change in public attitudes with which this growth has been associated . |
| 8 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 9 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 10 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 11 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 12 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 13 | The agrarian structure in Chile has undergone profound changes during the last twenty years . |
| 14 | The necessary bond issue to restrain liquidity will commit the government to paying high rates on these bonds for the next twenty years or so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These will be the outstanding problems for theoretical physicists in the next twenty years or so . |
| 17 | the proliferation of technical manuals over the last twenty years has meant that the number of manuals supplied with complex aircraft/systems has increased to the point where it is practically impossible to access all the information in the ‘ library ’ ( Fig. 1 shows an example of technical manual growth rate within the Naval Air Systems Command ) ; |
| 18 | Most of the legislative changes over the last twenty years , for example , have had the effect of increasingly making teachers the implementors of a job description that has been concocted elsewhere . |
| 19 | There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Pensions have increased in real terms over the last twenty years , but not as fast as real personal disposable incomes . |
| 22 | Opinions currently differ as to the effectiveness of strategies in the professional development of teachers during the last twenty years . |
| 23 | First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably . |
| 24 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 25 | In the debates over the last twenty years there has been considerable interplay of theological and sociological reasoning , with social scientists also contributing to papers and discussions . |
| 26 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
| 27 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 28 | I work out the odds against the cargo being lost , based on weather reports and piracy records for the last twenty years , then I add a bit , then you pay me some money based on those odds — ’ |
| 29 | I 'm talking about saving human life governments over the last twenty years , troops over the last twenty years , policemen over the last twenty years , laws over the last twenty years , and politicians , including myself , have all failed in all the efforts that we 've made including condemnation of violence , everything , but I am now saying that this dialogue is the best hope I 've seen or , surely I 'm entitled to say to the Prime Minister , alright given that I have said that why do n't you put me to the test ? |
| 30 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |