Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | Well , Tony McCaffery , good luck for the next twenty years . |
| 4 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
| 5 | Venice Restored takes stock of the first twenty years of conservation in the Serenissima after the disastrous flood of 1966 . |
| 6 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 7 | It was these two issues that would remain as seemingly irremovable areas of tension across the next twenty years . |
| 8 | Early candidates for this treatment among industrial buildings , and prior to the enthusiasms of the last twenty years . |
| 9 | However , he gained the confidence and personal friendship of Pope Pius IX and exercised considerable influence for the next twenty years . |
| 10 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 11 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 12 | Here she gave us a happy home for the next twenty years . |
| 13 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 14 | Interestingly , though , most of the audition selections are chosen from work of the last twenty years ; most young students will go for contemporary work . |
| 15 | A national curriculum centrally determined is about to be imposed on the schools , and this is bound to encapsulate a philosophy of education , its nature and purpose , that arises directly out of the discontents of the last twenty years . |
| 16 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | He was probably born before 1130 , and if so , the place of his birth was probably London , with which he also had close associations in the last twenty years of his life . |
| 18 | After the nuclear debate , the greatest social issue facing Western countries in the next twenty years will be the lack of jobs for young adults aged 16 to 25 , especially in the depressed regions . |
| 19 | The enormous success of televised sport within the last twenty years has certainly been decisive in turning matches into ‘ media events ’ and in attracting commercial investment at unprecedented levels . |
| 20 | Few people can fail to be impressed by the rate of growth of both the animal protection and environmental movements in the last twenty years , or by the extraordinary change in public attitudes with which this growth has been associated . |
| 21 | I ca n't think of anywhere that the stage designs have been more consistently imaginative and beautifully realized than in Salzburg over the last twenty years . |
| 22 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 23 | For Cranmer , who headed the party of Reform for the next twenty years , the task seemed hardly begun . |
| 24 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 25 | Neither was particularly exceptional within the catalogue of events that have taken place during the last twenty years . |
| 26 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 27 | An added embarrassment was a report ( also leaked ) by the chief inspector for nuclear safety who warned against complacency and came up with an estimate that there was a ‘ several per cent ’ chance of a serious accident in the next twenty years . |
| 28 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 29 | Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so . |
| 30 | Rachel relaxed , grateful , and gave her usual careful consideration to the matters before the meeting ; calmly ploughing through the minutiae and bureaucratic red tape of museum management , making the sort of useful contributions that she had made at any such meeting in the last twenty years . |