Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Young , 77 , who directed the James Bond movies Dr No and From Russia With Love , has lived in Cannes for the last 20 years . |
| 2 | Norwegian Red breeders have plugged away at mastitis resistance for the past 20 years . |
| 3 | It is not the security forces who have wantonly and consistently used lethal force during the past 20 years . |
| 4 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 5 | Though it centres on Harvey Keitel , who is trying to be a saint in the city , the film hatched the greatest celluloid partnership of the last 20 years with the introduction of Robert De Niro as the reckless Johnny Boy . |
| 6 | The rapid changes in the membership and electoral fortunes of Scots , Welsh , Quebecois and no doubt other nationalist parties of the past 20 years illustrate this instability . |
| 7 | Which is the antithesis of Jeremy [ Isaacs ] , who is a programme-maker at heart , one of the great programme-makers of the last 20 years . |
| 8 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 9 | Experiments on animals in the last 20 years have revealed that there are several different types of memory ( for example , memory for places , or for events , or for movements ) , that each can be independently disturbed , and that each is primarily controlled by a different part of the brain . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ The Airbus has been the most successful venture into the civilian aerospace industry in the last 20 years . ’ |
| 11 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 12 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 13 | There have indeed been great changes to public health practice over the past 20 years . |
| 14 | Noorda says that Novell is acutely aware of the ‘ history ’ of Unix and its penetration into government and industry over the past 20 years . |
| 15 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 16 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 17 | The hearings system is claimed to have turned thousands of youngsters away from a life of crime over the last 20 years , but because of the confidential nature of the work done by reporters and panel members , much of the evidence is anecdotal . |
| 18 | MORE than 200 children are believed to have been sexually assaulted and beaten by staff at council homes over the past 20 years . |
| 19 | WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday . |
| 20 | Karsten Schubert shows an interesting collection — with mega-interesting prices — of rare catalogues and books by artists of the last 20 years |
| 21 | But what a misguided strategy , after all the experience of the past 20 years . |
| 22 | Yesterday publican John McKeague said that Mr McGarry had been drinking regularly in his bar for the last 20 years , but added that no one had ever asked about his movements . |
| 23 | In one of our coldest winters for the past 20 years , the system has been operating successfully and flexibly . |
| 24 | Prior to her retirement she acted as the Society 's Liaison Officer for the Sports Council for the last 20 years . |
| 25 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 26 | WE are sad to report the death of on March 25. , 58 , worked at Burstwick Mill for the past 20 years on raw materials intake . |
| 27 | By making such groups irrelevant , the State can write off the progressive movements of the last 20 years . |
| 28 | What was the most memorable moment of Modern architecture in the last 20 years ? |
| 29 | Yorkshire 's winning of the B&H Cup in 1987 was achieved with performances of consistent excellence which represent one of the county 's most vigorous periods in the last 20 years . |
| 30 | Despite the considerable volumes of research conducted in the field of child abuse in the last 20 years , there are still large gaps in our knowledge concerning the phenomenon . |