Below you will find example sentences with "twenty years". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Twenty Years in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: twenty
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 22
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 30.5 words

Words in this phrase

twenty years

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • twenty can mean: The cardinal number 20, occurring after nineteen and before twenty-one. Frequent word
  • years can mean: plural of year. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 9 start, 6 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

after yes twenty years 1× be involved twenty years is plenty 1× fifteen or twenty years across three 1× for over twenty years 1× for over twenty years and fifteen 1× heart surgery twenty years ago and 1× is serving twenty years for burglary 1× life at twenty years for both 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

twenty years after 2× a retirement celebration 1× at 18 years 1× born in 1706 1× for example despite 1× it makes sense 1×

Common sentence endings:

100 years ago 1× 32 years old 1× 6 years old 1× both presumably married 1× chef said harris 1× due to strikes 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

ago 4× age 3× old 3× served 2× party 2× people 2× fifteen 2× last 2× heart 2× married 2× films 2× across 2×

Related phrases

years ago two years five years consecutive years four years recent years few years years old teenage years aged years

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around twenty:

twenty minutes 8× twenty five 5×

Just before it in the phrase index:

twenty minutes twenty five twelve month tweeted photo turtle creek turning off

Just after it in the phrase index:

twice weekly twin brother twin cities twin falls twin sister twitter account

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

twenty minutes twenty five

Same ending:

two years five years consecutive years four years recent years few years

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "twenty years" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 30.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after yes twenty years, be involved twenty years is plenty, ago, age and old stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, two years, five years, twenty minutes and twenty five, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with twenty years

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Twenty years after – yes, twenty years! (6 words)

Over the past twenty years, public universities have been closed for five years due to strikes. (16 words)

At 18 years of age she married Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, a rich merchant twenty years her senior. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

It makes sense that not everyone would be involved; twenty years is plenty of time for people to grow apart, and it's easy to imagine Picard losing touch with some of his old crew as the years pass by and he moves further away from his Starfleet career. (49 words)

This started out as an N64 release about twenty years ago, before it was snapped up by Microsoft and used as a launch title for the Xbox 360. The last time we had a game was almost ten years ago, and even that was a remaster. (46 words)

Where Aristotle had set the prime of life at 37 years for men and 18 for women, the Visigothic Code of law in the 7th century placed the prime of life at twenty years for both men and women, after which both presumably married. (44 words)

Exclamation examples

Twenty years after – yes, twenty years! (6 words)

Example sentences (20)

Twenty years after – yes, twenty years!

Born in 1706 in Windsor, Connecticut, Daniel Marshall united with the Congregationalists at age twenty and was elected a deacon, a position in which he served for twenty years.

Rise in the Communist Party Gorbachev attended the important twenty-second Party Congress in October 1961, where Nikita Khrushchev announced a plan to surpass the U.S. in per capita production within twenty years.

Over the past twenty years, public universities have been closed for five years due to strikes.

It makes sense that not everyone would be involved; twenty years is plenty of time for people to grow apart, and it's easy to imagine Picard losing touch with some of his old crew as the years pass by and he moves further away from his Starfleet career.

I have been cooking for over twenty years and fifteen of those years as a professional chef,” said Harris.

This started out as an N64 release about twenty years ago, before it was snapped up by Microsoft and used as a launch title for the Xbox 360. The last time we had a game was almost ten years ago, and even that was a remaster.

Ken has a long medical history; he had open heart surgery twenty years ago and his father died of a heart attack when he was just 32 years old.

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Lechler is serving twenty years for burglary and Collie is seventeen years into a 25-year sentence for armed robbery.

To celebrate TWENTY YEARS since the original charted around the world, here's a version that would have sounded pretty sweet 100 years ago.

Twenty years after that performance, and more than 40 years after the breakup in question, Fleetwood Mac is preparing to go on tour this fall, and Nicks and Buckingham are giving the people what they want: more feuds.

At 18 years of age she married Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, a rich merchant twenty years her senior.

For example, despite the implied contemporaneity in each of the films of The Omen series, the lead character ages some fifteen or twenty years across three films released across a period of less than six years.

In the U.S. over the last twenty years, more than 70% of non-English-speaking school-age immigrants have arrived in the U.S. before they were 6 years old.

The Three are satisfied, and in the end decide that Ursula will live another twenty years and become an accomplished and respected witch in her twilight years, and her grandchild will be beautiful.

They were all convicted — including those who had not been members of the union for years — and given prison terms of up to twenty years.

Where Aristotle had set the prime of life at 37 years for men and 18 for women, the Visigothic Code of law in the 7th century placed the prime of life at twenty years for both men and women, after which both presumably married.

Wieman's lecture was so brilliant that he was promptly hired to the faculty and taught there for twenty years, and for at least thirty years afterward Chicago's Divinity School was closely associated with Whitehead's thought.

Yet twenty years later, by 1184, the revolt by the Banu Ghaniya had spread from the Balearic Islands to Ifriqiya ( Tunisia ), causing problems for the Almohad regime for the next fifty years.

A retirement celebration luncheon was held Friday, May 5, 2023 at 11 a.m. in the Crowne Room at the Jackson Hilton Hotel on County Line Road, honoring Frances Morris, who served as president of the Woodlea Homeowner’s Association for over twenty years.

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