Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] for twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 2 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 4 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 5 | Adkin New Homes Department has been established for twenty years , servicing a wide selection of large and small developments throughout Oxfordshire on behalf of our builder clients . |
| 6 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 7 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 8 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 9 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 10 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 11 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 12 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 13 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |