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And, of course, there is the case of the Japanese real estate, where investors lost 40 percent of their money over the last twenty years.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, but another woman can make a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The matter must be date up to twenty years ago .

Hindley and I held it a favourite spot twenty years ago .

Old Mr Clare was a clergyman of a type which, within the last twenty years, has wellnigh dropped out of contemporary life.

I informed him I had had the honour of being in the firm twenty years, to which he insolently replied that I "looked it. "

after playing together for twenty years, the band members have finally decided to call it a day.

Twenty years later, Nagorno-Karabakh is often called a "frozen conflict" .

Twenty years ago, this background would itself have seemed a dream for anyone foolish enough to be trying to fish the Cheonggyecheon.

However, in the last twenty years of his life, his health began to deteriorate and he was miserable.

You can be just as brisk, just as active, just as light-hearted now as you were ten or twenty years ago.

It has been a tradition for more than twenty years for the Chinese Foreign Minister to visit Africa at the very beginning of the year.

I do not know , in fact , of any medium that has changed as little in the last twenty years as the daily press .

He had been smoking for twenty years when he decided to give it up.

Twenty years from now, we might be in a very different place and patents are part of the problem, not the solution.

But after the storm struck layoffs, unfortunately, was driven out of Larry Crow worked for more than twenty years of his store.

She was an old woman who for twenty years had brought the neighbouring gentry into the world.

Twenty years ago, if you wanted to run a hedge fund in the British Isles, you probably had to do it in London.

After twenty years as a teacher, Mr Burr called it a day and retired.

The concept of 'farmers first', which promotes farmer-led agricultural innovation, has been discussed for at least twenty years.

I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way.

She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years. It was probably a punishment for her wickedness!

If I had met him twenty years ago, I too might have been very worried about Ronnie's future prospects.

Let me take you on a journey of the last twenty years of my life.

Life, read, twenty years with a "Book of General" for the account of the important works of ancient laws and institutions.

This learning is a prerequisite to being able to say, twenty years from now, that software development is an exemplar of quality and value.

Just suppose that ten of the thousands of genetically modified vegetables or fruits sold over the next twenty years produce health damage.

and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.

Twenty years ago, the only removal option was dermabrasion , which would create a scar the size of the tattoo, he said.

Twenty years later, in a BBC interview, he admitted that he had intentionally acted as if it were a goal, in order to deceive the referee.

Twenty years ago, I brought in a pair of shoes to be repaired. Do you think you've still got them?

It took me twenty years of my fifty-year marriage to discover how unwise it was to attempt to remake my wife.

Would you accept twenty years of extraordinary happiness and fulfillment if it meant you would die at the end of the period?

After playing together for twenty years, the band members have finally decide to call it a day.

If the Japanese measured well-being in terms of GDP per capita, the last twenty years would have come as a brutal shock.

Darwin spent twenty years carefully gathering evidence for his theory and anticipating every objection his critics might have.

Twenty years of trying to persuade Burma's generals to reform has not secured any improvement.

She told me she had been walking the earth these twenty years: a just punishment for her mortal transgressions, I've no doubt! '

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Major oil companies, with BP prominent among them, have spent twenty years trying to demonstrate their social responsibility.

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Pierce had been a public official for more than twenty years when he became president. Yet he was not a strong leader.

Twenty years of good times and global economic integration, after the end of the cold war, had profound political effects.

During the last twenty years, environmental assessment(EA)has developed into a comprehensive and multi discipline frontier science.

It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship.

But I can elaborate on it here, some twenty years later, now that all that parade hubbub has died down.

When her health failed nearly twenty years later, she moved back in with him, no regrets.

And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago.

Every Friday night, Mom and Dad have had the ham dinner special at the same restaurant for the last twenty years.

You know, I've been smoking twenty years now and giving up my four packs a day is hard to do.

We seem to forget that high unemployment in developed countries was mentioned as a major end product of globalization twenty years ago.

Twenty years ago, we were pure and innocent . And we had no troubles, like an angel that flies in the sky.

I shall have been working here in this factory for twenty years by the end of the year.

The fact remained that at the end of twenty years of exertion America was not at peace with itself.

In any case, Sawadogo said he had been adapting to a hotter, drier climate for twenty years now.

TWENTY YEARS OF reform in Australia did not roll off without resistance, so sweeteners were needed to buy off opposition.

I'm an artist and for the past twenty years I've been using my own body, inside and out, as the subject of my work.

In the United States, AIDS patients who regularly take a cocktail of these drugs increase their life expectancy by ten to twenty years.

This car turned out to be so popular that it stayed unchanged for twenty years.

After living among the natives for more than twenty years, the painter forgot his own language and civilized way of life.

Twenty years ago there had been one of the greatest of the Evil Magicians: a young man named Trent.

After more than twenty years of reform and opening-up, like other parts of China, Shanghai has experienced world-shaking changes.

This award is a tribute to Walter's twenty years of dedicated service to the company.

This is the home for twenty years of my life - a small village, she was beautiful and dignified, her simple but minimalist.

Sue was a bit unhappy about this, but figured that 3 affairs over twenty years wasn't so bad.

But you have lived in BJ town for twenty years now, you are a BJer, naturally you know more about this place than I do.

For more than twenty years, scientists have been trying to develop a vaccine to prevent H. I. V. infection.

The next 20 years of work can be just as rewarding as your first twenty years has been.

In the past twenty years, there has been a great increase in the amount of research being done on the cause of cancer.

Invited by his old friend Premier Chou En-lai, he was making his first trip back in twenty years.

But aside from the coincidence on the graphs, is the US (or Europe) really about to suffer ten to twenty years of stagnation?

Twenty years went by; her hair was beginning to turn grey.

Of course this was years ago, many years it would seem to you. Almost twenty years.

Continuously variable transmissions are one of the emerging transmission technologies of the last twenty years.

The crime carries a sentence of at least twenty years in prison and a possible life sentence.

An attempt to put them in practice in some measure led to the defeat of Chinese Marxism twenty years ago.

His little brother died in a freak accident at the church twenty years ago, and now Frank is starting to see his brother's ghost.

About twenty years later, someone did explain. She was the wife of the famous American general George Custer.

In trying to do so, I talked with reporter Stanley Angrist who wrote that 1989 Wall Street Journal article nearly twenty years ago.

He was said to have been living in London for twenty years.

A recent study reported on almost twenty years of different tillage methods in the American states of Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska.

Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world and is more dependent on emergency aid now than anytime in the last twenty years.

If we run into another managerial problem TEN or twenty years down the road, you know whose phone will ring.

"Twenty years ago, it was more rough and tumble, " J. R. said in an apologetic tone.

She was a good woman, Elizabeth Branwell. She kept my home for more than twenty years, and she taught my daughters everything she knew.

Twenty years ago, when my uncle sung this song, it had a more local meaning.

His work would be impressive if done by a Ph. D. economist with twenty years of experience in the profession.

During the next twenty years, every one of my teenage dreams came true.

Twenty years after Khrushchev's outburst, the Cold War was still raging and America was due for her own linguistic gaffe.

He told me that he had been teaching physics for more than twenty years .

Today, exactly twenty years ago to the hour, I risked my life to save a woman who was drowning in the rapids of the Colorado River.

Twenty years ago I never had such a tiring day, really, I do not know how I want to go down.

Twenty years ago they said the yardstick against which India should be measured was its potential.

After twenty years of marriage and his one son had graduated from college, it was high time she died.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

I am twenty years of age, and have been employed for the last two years by the XX Co.

Twenty years ago, I was one of them. Having gotten the knack for labels early. . . I concentrated on love.

After twenty years of development, there are a number of enterprises which has achieved success in industry chain integration.

For instance, the Great War in Europe some twenty years ago was an unjust, imperialist war.

As a specialized nonferrous-metal casting plant, We have had a history of twenty years.

Around twenty years ago, the edition of it has changed to the purplish red used nowadays with the badge of royal family on the cover.

In fact, he has three degrees in financial record keeping. And he has over twenty years of experience as a business executive.

After those twenty years of peace, I was resting on a tree near the Border of Israel at Philistia when I saw Samson in Gaza.

Twenty years ago, only one graduate in 20 with a professional degree in law, medicine, or business was a woman.

Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

For almost twenty years Shakespeare was its regular dramatist, producing on average two plays a year.

A year ago, he came to the hotel, front desk a twenty years have never event.

She just couldn't understand Southerners, for all that she had lived in Georgia twenty years.

"In about twenty years, we might be flying around the galaxy instead of driving on roads, " Alice said.

Even more shocking is the fact that the number rate of imprisonment have more than doubled over the past twenty years, recidivism ?

Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony in nearly twenty years.

How did I spend the first twenty years of my life without something that seems so essential now?

TWENTY years ago, American perceptions of Asian food could be summed up in one word: "Chinese. "

Over the next ten to twenty years, it will change business from a lead-pushmodel to a pull-follow model of interacting with customers.

I must have seen that lady at least four times in the twenty years following. She never alluded to my salvation in any way.

I have been with you for twenty years now. Your sheep and goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

Staff Service has been a trusted partner to international clients, large and small, for over twenty years.

During the next twenty years, the vast majority will inevitably die, and the rest becomes almost indestructible.

He was such a good policeman that all the local people still remember him after he died twenty years later.

He said that without continued fast economic development and social order, the gains of past twenty years will be lost.

He said his father had been dead for twenty years.

Cognitive research on bilingualism has been a focus in the field of language cognition over the recent twenty years.

but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Twenty years ago, my parents could barely afford to buy me a $1 toy horse for my first Christmas present in London.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city has turned Cold War history into a tourist attraction.

I have dealt with computers for the last twenty years, thus what I say should probably not be co trued as anti-computer rhetoric.

Twenty years ago, the main goal of many migrant workers in city factories was to send money home to struggling village families.

Atria have become much more common as integral components of commercial building designs over the last twenty years.

My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago.

I have carried this heart with me for twenty years and it has brought me good luck all of these years.

There was no need to drag up the mistake she made twenty years ago.

During the past twenty years of China's reform and opening-up, thousands of modernized enterprises have sprung uparound China.

In the last twenty years, great changes have taken place in my motherland. I am sure China's tomorrow will be much better. I love China!

After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep.

Twenty years later, however, Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez is said to have brought back three chests full of cacao beans.

For the last twenty years the station of the Orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted it, as it does to-day.

I sighed a sigh of relief when he brought peace to us for the next twenty years.

She had worked for the firm for twenty years and was in a position of trust.

He said that without continued fast economic development and social order, the gains of the past twenty years will be lost.

I asked him when this happened and he said it was twenty years ago, but the wound was still fresh and the pain was still raw.

Jack had been a sore trial to his family for twenty years.

That year, the team won its first league championship pennant after more than twenty years of failure.

Over twenty years these fiscal transfers can add up to a sizeable sum.

Tom had been a sore trial to his family for twenty years.

I'd worked for the same company for twenty years and had worked my way up to department director.

Sedecias was one and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

We have over twenty years of combined professional experience in the global education market.

Twenty years ago, the Land Lease Policy came into power in China. Chinese Real Estate Market emerged and grew in a fabulous speed.

Yet up to the end of 1965, every case for twenty years or more was tainted by Russian " sticky fingers" .

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

He had been the ruler of that region for as long as twenty years.

As a special stereotype, gender-stereotype had become inactive field in social cognitive research during the past twenty years.

There it stayed for twenty years in the attic, like an hourglass as rain water dripping all.

We see by your file you've served twenty years of a life sentence.

Twenty years after the cold war, and with America now past its "unipolar" moment, Europe is entering a new phase in its security.

"It is twenty years, " mourned the voice. "Twenty years. I've been a waif for twenty years! "

And he has over twenty years of experience as a business executive.

The Great Moderation, the substantial decline in macroeconomic volatility over the past twenty years, is a striking economic development.

Twenty years of a booming China have meant 20 years of back-breaking work for him.

Years later, he told the biographer Kenneth Rose: 'Twenty years I worked for my country and they kicked me out on my ass. '

That was a mistake. He was living on the Wall Street of twenty years ago. Not the Wall Street of today.

For the family, my mother eventually gave up the cause for which she had fought for twenty years.

But now, twenty years later, multiprocessing has returned to these same personal computer systems through symmetric multiprocessing.

Twenty Years of Meta-Analyses in Orthopaedic Surgery: Has Quality Kept Up with Quantity?

Completly constructing well-to-do society is the target of Chinese people in the earlier twenty years of this century.

Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy's life, a life for someone who wanted no boss.

Twenty years ago I was in Shanghai looking across the river to Pudong. It was then farmland, a few buildings.

Experience: Mr. Wang have over twenty years of management experience in premier MNCs.

And with over twenty years at brands like Sony, Iomega, and Plantronics, he knows what he's talking about.

Twenty years earlier, he had come to the same location for a summit meeting with Reagan on arms control.

"In general these are the long term trends as we look forward over the next twenty years, " Kelly says.

Owing to the reason known to all the relations between the two people were suspended for over twenty years.

China's military might has increased by leaps and bounds over the past twenty years as it has ramped up spending.

And he wrote for the Wall Street Journal opinion page for twenty years, until nineteen ninety-five.

In the twenty years since the Soviet collapse, Russians' real incomes have increased. But democratic institutions have not kept up.

Tissue engineering material with many advantages has been the direction of the material to repair bone deficiency over twenty years.

Twenty years ago the Supreme Court ruled that states had no right to restrict gambling on Indian reservations if they allowed it elsewhere.

The Cold War had finished twenty years, and the international order in Northeast Asia is at a new historical turning point.

Others are not so fortunate, and may take ten to twenty years or even a lifetime in the attempt to find the right method.

In 1987, the Brundtland Commission first popularised the concept of sustainable development. Twenty years on, what progress has been made?

Twenty years ago, offline, the newspapers were the kings of their respective cities, and advertisers needed to be there.

For almost twenty years, to save up for his donations, Bai Fangli peddled his pedicab everyday.

Twenty years after the Soviet collapse, with all the hopes that inspired that Russia might embrace democracy, it comes down to this.

After twenty years the same sardar wanted to divorce his wife.

Experts put the storage of twenty years or above of good wine with liquid gold, this shows the potential value! ! ! ! !

Long Zheng will be happy: we've got rid of the Add Fonts dialog that has served Windows faithfully for the last twenty years.

I started my teaching career at the school. That was more than twenty years ago, and I have been there ever since.

The American airline industry has enjoyed significant expansion in the last twenty years.

Although they had been found for about one hundred years , they have been popular in biological field in recent twenty years .

The study on the stricture and value in teaching of the open-ended mathematical problems has been a hotspot during the past twenty years.

Twenty years passed between Rambo films and just like Rocky Balboa, Stallone again had a specific story he wanted to share with audiences.

The company belongs to the pioneers in this sector with over twenty years experience.

Owing to reasons known to all , the contacts between the peoples were suspended for over twenty years .

For upwards of twenty years, impressionism flourished as the dominant style of painting in nearly all countries of the western world.

Now, twenty years after her abuse ended, she was finally dealing with those feelings rather than escaping from them.

Over the past twenty years , environmental protection has arisen as one of the hottest topics.

The world is so year after year by spring rain washed out, friends you see: although you have come to this world for twenty years.

Twenty years after the event, not one single photograph of this event was legally viewed by any of the 23 million citizens of North Korea.

Twenty years is a blink in the long course of history, but not short for a historical period.

Ten or twenty years ago, the form of nationalism most closely corresponding to Communism today was political Catholicism.

The growth of the airline industry in the last twenty years, however, has made the convention business a worldwide enterprise.

But nearly twenty years have passed since the construction of the first national road was commenced.

The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read.

While on an expedition in western China twenty years ago, some explorers discovered the mummies of a tall, red-haired people.

Meteorologists say we are facing twenty years of colder weather and regional droughts.

I really mean that Eclipse should still be able to support an active community in ten or twenty years.

Twenty years had not dimmed his memory.

Yet, since I vaguely heard a summons, till I really commenced to write, the concept of time was twenty years in this process.

President Harry Truman had called for such a plan twenty years earlier.

Twenty years ago, 42 percent of Americans said they trusted government to do what was right just about always or most of the time.

"To think I fed that fellow for twenty years! " exclaimed the old woman in anger.

As you will know in the inclosed catalog, we have established here for more than twenty years as exporters of Calculators.

Twenty years later, he proved once again that heroism comes from the heart.

The stain of dismissal was a bitter price to pay after the achievements of the previous twenty years.

Victoria and Albert reigned together for twenty years. Prince Albert died from typhoid at the age of 42.

In 1913, twenty years after this incident, Henry decided to use dynamite to uproot a tree in his garden.

Not even in my wildest dreams could I have imagined, twenty years ago before the Wall fell, that this would happen.

It was twenty years ago that I met him for the first time.

During the past twenty years, evidence has accumulated for the presence of phospholipids within the nuclei of eukaryotic cells.

Twenty years on, only a few remnants of the barrier remain.

Twenty years ago, the selling and sales management discipline was in a nascent state of development.

Sandra and Larry had been married for twenty years. Sandra wanted a divorce and Larry wanted to make things work.

A few congressmen are floating a bill to extend the terms of copyright by twenty years.

In the last twenty years, referenda held in Quebec for possible separation from Canada, were narrowly defeated.

She has also exercised consistently for the past twenty years, three or four times a week.

Twenty years more, maybe they'll find out a few more things they didn't know.

I found out that Kha-Beleth laid his mark on an infant born on the day of the eclipse some twenty years ago.

More than twenty years have passed since the first commercial GPS receiver was available on the market.

Her life story composed of families, her husband, children, work, and a secret extramarital affair that lasted twenty years.

Twenty years later in a day, a moment, a second, a sudden standstill.

After we spend twenty years learning how to get good grades, we go into a workforce where those skills are largely irrelevant.

Twenty years of votes that earned him the most liberal label.

Rinpoche managed to do all of this in less than twenty years!

In the small box was the ring that he had given her twenty years before.

It's going to be twenty years for you this time.

Twenty years of Chinese systematic botany.

Twenty years on, another version of Hound of the Baskervilles hit the silver screen, this time starring Andre Morell and Peter Cushing.

In the last twenty years China has experienced the second most destructive earthquake in its history.

Twenty years later, the Limits to Growth simulation needs not a mere update, but a total redo.

When she had her stroke twenty years later, she worked harder than anyone Olive had ever seen to restore her ability to speak and write.

In fact, the cost of entry into most businesses has come down greatly in the last twenty years.

We can certainly see significant changes in the state-of-the-practice over the last twenty years.

Within China, the last twenty years have seen huge economic growth, but no net progress towards democracy.

You might start with fitness goals and then twenty years later find your motivations to have completely changed.

Suddenly I felt I was like the small kid over twenty years ago.

The two countries have maintained good relations for the last twenty years.

I've known him for more than twenty years.

A good many of those arrested for car theft are under twenty years of age.

Twenty years ago, nobody could expect that air-conditioners would be popular with the families in Shanghai.

For twenty years, Bonnie had been married to a man who mistreated her.