Example sentences of "for [adv] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The office of Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland existed for only twenty years , terminating in 1948 . |
| 2 | Francis Thomson , the man who for nearly twenty years has been promising to write a biography of Alan Blumlein is once again appealing for more material on Blumlein . |
| 3 | The truth was that the Conservative party under Baldwin had managed to recover a large area of that middle ground in politics which is the key to electoral success and which they lost in 1206 , after being in possession for nearly twenty years before that . |
| 4 | At times , it looks like little more than nepotism : The Prince of Wales ' last private secretary , Edward Adeane had been a page-of-honour to the Queen in his teens ; his father , Lord Adeane , had been the Queen 's private secretary for nearly twenty years , and his great-grandfather , Lord Stamfordham had been private secretary to George V. George VI 's private secretary , Sir Alan Lascelles , was a cousin of the sixth Lord Harewood , husband of Princess Mary . |
| 5 | By the time of the second inquiry the house had effectively been abandoned for nearly twenty years and was suffering from extensive coal mining subsidence ; and it was likely to suffer still more in the future . |
| 6 | Board of Trade officials had tried for nearly twenty years to change the policy of RPM . |
| 7 | I 've put up with the place for nearly twenty years . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One author has got plastic pan scrubbers that have been in use for nearly twenty years and are still going strong to this day |
| 10 | Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction . |
| 11 | The house , empty for nearly twenty years , was in a sorry state , and Honora recalled in a television interview , ‘ The garden was given up as lost … |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been out here in the dark for nearly twenty years ! ’ |
| 13 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 14 | Even as a boy Haile Selassie had believed in his imperial destiny ; for nearly twenty years he had survived conspiracies , wars and revolutions , and his resolution had never faltered . |
| 15 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 16 | The wars with republican France and Napoleon lasted for nearly twenty years and although erm er temporary truces and peaces were negotiated , the struggle continued until the overthrow of Napoleon and that was , although it was a , a largely European war , it did have ramifications , it brought Britain , for example , into war with the United States in nin in eighteen twelve . |
| 17 | One of the tanks has been planted and left to grow virtually untouched for about twenty years . |
| 18 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 19 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 20 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 21 | After 1985 the Americans were increasingly happy to forget about their affair with Ceauşescu , but for almost twenty years it was a important plank of their foreign policy . |
| 22 | Dr Edgar Munhill , the Frick 's Curator , pointed out to The Art Newspaper , ‘ We have been doing exhibitions here for almost twenty years around aspects of our own collection , often not well known to the general public . |
| 23 | For almost twenty years after that various proposals were run up the flagpole , mostly to unsaluting generals . |
| 24 | The long muted voice of Nizan , unfashionable for almost twenty years , began speaking again with an urgency and topicality that simply could not be ignored . |
| 25 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 28 | They are very experienced and often very powerful figures within their unions , but have not been studied in depth for almost twenty years . |
| 29 | Though argument continues on all these points , for almost twenty years this school of thought has been the most systematic available for the analysis of the global system , and those working within its orbit have produced an impressive volume of theoretical and substantive research . ’ |
| 30 | His house was sacked during the revolt , and he himself was discharged from office ; although he lived for almost twenty years more , he was not reappointed . |