Example sentences of "for 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years |
| 2 | Richard Howell of Sheppards , the London stockbrokers , has been following tea and plantation shares for 20 years . |
| 3 | Marcos ruled the Philippines for 20 years before Mrs Aquino was swept to office on a wave of ‘ people power ’ in 1986 . |
| 4 | Continental has traded in Eastern Europe for 20 years and now supplies 25 per cent of the region 's imported grain . |
| 5 | Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years . |
| 6 | The debate about linking Skye and the mainland has continued for 20 years . |
| 7 | But her chief work for music in Cumbria was as Secretary for 20 years of the Cumbria Rural Choirs . |
| 8 | Television , both BBC 's coverage for 20 years and ITV 's for the past five , not only attracted lucrative sponsorships but developed a greater interest among the young . |
| 9 | If Marcos was cynical , he was no more so than the American foreign policy which kept him in power and in clover for 20 years . |
| 10 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 11 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 12 | The Rover 200 will be joined in the showrooms next month by the first new Land Rover model for 20 years , the Discovery , aimed at the sector of the four-wheel drive market dominated by Japanese manufacturers . |
| 13 | For 20 years after 1957 , reports of ‘ an old Swedish prisoner ’ somewhere in the giant Soviet penal camp system would reach the West . |
| 14 | At yesterday 's meeting of the Club 's Disciplinary Committee , Willett , 33 , was declared a disqualified person for 20 years . |
| 15 | In line with this principle , she ignored the Gorbachev visit and went to the cinema to watch a film that had been banned for 20 years , since it deals with the Russian invasion of 1945 . |
| 16 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 17 | The lakes were at their lowest levels for 20 years , and Chew was lower than I can ever remember . |
| 18 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 19 | The agency has been in business for 20 years . |
| 20 | Sailing Bond gets his reward for 20 years of trying . |
| 21 | The crowds at Constitution Dock cheered the owner who has been trying for 20 years to score a major success in this race . |
| 22 | One Los Angeles pesticide manufacturer alone was responsible for a continuous discharge of DDT at sewer outfalls for 20 years , dumping almost 250 kg ( 550 lb ) per day into the ocean . |
| 23 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 24 | Suppose that instead of paying Lockheed , Boeing and General Dynamics $65 billion to build 648 of the new fighters , and thus partly freezing the technology for 20 years , the Pentagon asked for just 72 operational aircraft , plus spares and trainers , and then kept the production line ticking over . |
| 25 | Mark Richards , a walker and a close friend of Wainwright for 20 years , thinks that the author would be turning in his grave . |
| 26 | He has faced the toughest election of any Tory chairman for 20 years , while spending the afternoons dashing to Bath to defend his own marginal seat against a strong Liberal Democrat challenge . |
| 27 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 28 | WITH TWO days of campaigning left in the closest election for 20 years , the biggest opinion poll of the campaign indicated last night that Labour was on course to become the largest single party in a hung parliament . |
| 29 | Mrs Jean Broke-Smith , the Lucie Clayton principal , who has been coaching debs for the show for 20 years , described the problem : ‘ Even though these girls are much more self-assured than their equivalent 20 years ago they still need to be told to push their hips and pelvis forward and to keep their bottoms tucked in , ’ she said . |
| 30 | THE CONSERVATIVES were on course to secure an historic fourth consecutive term in power early today after the closest general election for 20 years . |