Example sentences of "for over twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 4 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 5 | The result is that the rate of labour-force participation by women in Latin America has hovered around 20 per cent and remained fairly stable for over twenty years ( ECLA 1975 ) . |
| 6 | For over twenty years from the development of the first military reactors at the end of the Second World War , the nuclear industry continued to experiment and expand against a background of general public approval . |
| 7 | Children still sing skipping songs about soggy semolina though I ca n't remember semolina being served for over twenty years . |
| 8 | Brian Bower , a Leica enthusiast for over twenty years , introduces you to the world of Leica cameras , briefly outlining their history . |
| 9 | For over twenty years , Hugo had masterfully deployed the metaphor of the wave : he had bent the wave to his own ends , he had coupled it to revolution , to love , to Napoleon , to centuries , pinning it to the page in alexandrines and rhymes . |
| 10 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Eddie Chattaway had been taking part in the tournament for over twenty years before he loosed his winning arrow in 1977 . |
| 13 | I have been entertaining at children 's parties — as clown , magician , juggler and musician — for over twenty years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yamaha 's factory in Kaohsiung has been building guitars now for over twenty years … |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | These ships were regular visitors for over twenty years . |
| 18 | It has 353 rooms , and many of the guests repeat visits every year or several times a year , some for over twenty years and more . |
| 19 | The company is Aurigny Air Services , which for over twenty years has been linking the islands with one another and the airports of Southampton , Bournemouth , Cherbourg and Dinard . |
| 20 | The uncanny , oppressive atmosphere still hangs over that spot as it has done for over twenty years . |
| 21 | For over twenty years , I have tried to keep fish in as near to natural conditions as possible . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Bassetts have developed Sunnycliffe for over twenty years . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Joe had been a bookie for over twenty years , gradually moving into loan sharking . |
| 27 | The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the event , although the Victoria Press did last for over twenty years , and despite the creation in London in 1876 of the rather similar Women 's Printing Society , which also paid the full male rate , women compositors never penetrated the London trade to any extent . |
| 30 | " 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 " . |