Example sentences of "[noun] for over twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer-based courseware has been in action for over twenty years with considerable effect although the quality of materials has been patchy . |
| 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 | These ships were regular visitors for over twenty years . |
| 4 | Joshua , who had been in the Commons for over twenty years , knew only too well that there had never been a woman in the Conservative Whips ' Office . |
| 5 | Miaco were a well-known operator of DC-3s and other types out of the Island and had been overhauling radial piston engines as another facet of their business for over twenty years . |
| 6 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 7 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 8 | Rothesay Castle has been in the capable hands of custodian Fiona Macrae for the last eight years , assisted throughout the summer months by her father Finlay , who has been the seasonal custodian for over twenty years . |
| 9 | " 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 " . |
| 10 | Joe had been a bookie for over twenty years , gradually moving into loan sharking . |
| 11 | There had been no serious outbreak in the island for over twenty years , so the majority were neither immune nor vaccinated ( there was great reluctance to be vaccinated ) . |
| 12 | Eddie Chattaway had been taking part in the tournament for over twenty years before he loosed his winning arrow in 1977 . |
| 13 | Henley , while maintaining its independence , has been associated with Brunel for over twenty years in the development and administration of post graduate management degrees . |
| 14 | Al-Lurd was Lord Cromer , the man who had run Egypt for over twenty years before the present incumbent . |
| 15 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 16 | Bassett , the plaintiff , who had lived in New Zealand for over twenty years , claimed to be the heir-at-law of an intestate who had died some ten years before the claim . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The party ‘ whip-has not been formally withdrawn from an MP for over twenty years . |
| 19 | She had n't been a patient for over twenty years , since she 'd had the barrage of undignified tests and minor operations that had led to nothing but disappointment . |
| 20 | I have come to see you because that Mr R said to my son ‘ If you do n't like it here then go back where you came from and where you belong ’ and I was so upset at that because my son was born here and I have lived in this country for over twenty years and how dare he say that , because my son comes from here . |
| 21 | Brian Bower , a Leica enthusiast for over twenty years , introduces you to the world of Leica cameras , briefly outlining their history . |
| 22 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Incognito , he worked as a ferryman and lived in Biddick boat-house for over twenty years , when a terrible flood robbed him of his possessions and his proof of identification . |
| 25 | The Bassetts have developed Sunnycliffe for over twenty years . |
| 26 | Sharpe had fought the French for over twenty years , yet he had never seen the Emperor and , all unbidden , a sudden and childish image of a man with cloven tail , sharp horns and demonic fangs stalked Sharpe 's fears that were made worse by the Emperor 's real reputation as a soldier of genius whose presence on a battlefield was worth a whole corps of men . |
| 27 | As one of the architects of Northern Ireland , he sat in its parliament for county Down ( 1921–9 ) and then for mid-Down and Down from 1930 , and held high office for over twenty years , being successively minister of labour ( 1921–37 ) , minister of finance ( 1937–40 ) , and prime minister ( 1940–3 ) . |