Example sentences of "[noun] for twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been out-machoing men and bedding women with that story for twenty years . ’ |
| 2 | also history if I might just say that when the Post Office er split from the Civil Service , the firm was in deficit for twenty years and of course Post Office management say quite clearly that they were putting in sums of eighteen per cent of the pay bill when it was only supposed to be nine per cent of the pay bill and that 's why they 're entitled to the to the surplus . |
| 3 | She had lived in the lovely old building for twenty years and never had any desire to leave it or the grounds . |
| 4 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 5 | The actor Edward Fox is about to make his first appearance at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature for twenty years . |
| 6 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 7 | He 's been feeding the birds for twenty years , and he still finds it exciting . |
| 8 | Enjoying football for twenty years ? |
| 9 | Billed as the most important sale of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction for twenty years , the results of Sotheby 's sale of the Jourdan-Barry collection were not outstanding . |
| 10 | Six months ago , Lucian Freud surprised the art market by parting company from James Kirkman , his agent for twenty years . |
| 11 | I mean to say , Charles is an absolute prick , but he 's been a prick for twenty years , why divorce him now ? |
| 12 | County councillors have been dealing with British Coal in relation to Gascoigne Wood and Selby complex for twenty years . |
| 13 | Totalling more than 1,000 paintings , nearly forty painted objects , eight bronze sculptures and about 600 gouaches , watercolours and papiers collés , the catalogue is an ambitious task which has occupied Sylvester 's scholarship for twenty years . |
| 14 | The book might , in its day , have served as a poetic manifesto for the Movement — a sort of critical defence of the Angry Young Poet — but events were to take another turn , leading him in 1968 to settle in the United States for twenty years ; to produce , on his return , Under Briggflats ( 1989 ) , a critical history of British poetry since 1960 . |
| 15 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 16 | An officer who had worked on the social side for twenty years summed it up as " the most brilliant lecture on our social services I 'd ever heard in my life " . |
| 17 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 18 | And researchers have recorded some birds returning each winter for twenty years . |
| 19 | I 'd heard it said that th the development of this site has been in the development plan for twenty years |
| 20 | ‘ I 've worked for Doctor Jekyll for twenty years . |
| 21 | She was a nice old soul , but she had once been Sister Hope for twenty years , as she never ceased to inform us . |
| 22 | In the U K we seem to keep the equipment for twenty years and then complain if it goes wrong before we have to throw it away . |
| 23 | In 1844 his father and younger brother died : his mother devoted her life thereafter to John and shared his home for twenty years . |
| 24 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 25 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 26 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 27 | Delegates from Austria , Belgium , France , Great Britain , Ireland , Holland , Germany , South Africa , Switzerland , the US and Italy will take part and as new president will be voted in this year to succeed Andrew Hill who has held the post for twenty years . |
| 28 | Babur also understands the mild-mannered little men who tolerate their wives ' infidelities for twenty years and then one day they simply leap across the room and strangle her and saw her head off with the breadknife and put her bit by bit down the rubbish disposal , serves the fucking slut right , the sloppy slag trollop . |
| 29 | A Stable Elderly Population for Twenty Years |
| 30 | Flooded out : The worst rain for twenty years and still they warn of drought . |