Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [num ord] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These will be the outstanding problems for theoretical physicists in the next twenty years or so . |
| 10 | This will be achieved through the compilation of a statistical database relating to the development in the last twenty years of the 200-300 largest UK manufacturing firms in 1970 , and detailed profiles of the activities of 50 of them since 1970 . |
| 11 | In fact , the most significant change in the last twenty years has been a cultural trend towards less formal minute-taking in meetings . |
| 12 | There is little doubt that the availability of relatively cheap and convenient machines for viewing CL is one of the most important developments in sedimentary petrography in the last twenty years . |
| 13 | Moreover , many of the issues have spilled over in a marked renewal of interest in the state in the last twenty years . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the ugly threat of terrorism and sabotage has become more commonplace in commercial aviation in the last twenty years or so , and sometimes the perpetrators of criminal acts cause their own deaths as well as those of innocent passengers and crew . |
| 15 | Other strategies which recognise the new sense and the new possibilities are the wildlife/domestic stock village systems developing in Central Africa — systems not dissimilar to the self-sufficient , low-input philosophy that Gandhi was promoting before India became a monolithic Civil Service with centralised control which destroyed village integrity : the same problem that has caused thousands of Africans to return to their villages in the last twenty years , giving up their Government jobs for which they were never paid or even got their rations . |
| 16 | There has been much anxiety about the role of local government in the last twenty years . |
| 17 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 18 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |