Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adv] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , when the shock of alarm thrilled through her with more than usual intensity , she began to sing , softly , to keep her spirits up , and several phrases had passed her lips before she realized that the song came from her childhood — that she had not sung those words for almost twenty years , had forgotten them even until this moment when , with startling clarity , her memory travelled back in time . |
| 2 | I have frequented pool-rooms for over twenty years , and at one pool-room game , n three-cushion billiards , am considered a far better than average player . ’ |
| 3 | I have been breeding Neons for around twenty years , and during this time I have evolved a set procedure which enables me to successfully raise the fish in sufficient numbers . |
| 4 | These ships were regular visitors for over twenty years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " The Shipping Federation proved utterly incapable of helping its clients , and having dictated conditions for over twenty years , in a single day lost all its power " . |
| 7 | John and Ann Searancke have lived at Chequers for nearly twenty years and have continually improved the property — their care and love of the house shows . |
| 8 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 9 | As the chair is attached to Corpus Christi College , she had to resign her Fellowship at Somerville , where she had taught our biochemists for over twenty years . |
| 10 | The headmistress had tried to insist that she go on a racial awareness course , she who had taught children of different races for over twenty years . |