Sentence examples for two decades previously from inspiring English sources

10.20am BST The Japanese prodigy Hideki Matsuyama has already shown his worth at the Masters, last year becoming the first amateur to make consecutive cuts at Augusta since Manny Zerman managed it two decades previously.

Schoen impressed upon his squad the importance of not acting like spoilt bairns, given that they were visiting a country their forefathers had rained with bombs only two decades previously.

On a larger scale than two decades previously, the south coast braced itself for an influx of 200 cyclists, 2,500 back-up crew, 250 promotional vehicles, 40 police outriders and 1,000 journalists.

Indeed, it was not unlike the stuff he had been knocking out immediately before his retirement, when – presumably burned by the mixed response to his spirited 1990s attempts to seize the zeitgeist or dabble in the avant garde in the way he'd done so effortlessly two decades previously – Bowie settled on a more straightforward and comfortable kind of classicism.

An important potential limitation of the present study was the absence of data from two decades previously on the prevalence of SPT and allergic outcomes in the communities before the start of ivermectin distribution.

In 1989, therefore, the US returned militarily, as it had eight decades previously, and – as Silverstein puts it – "returned to power the old banking elites, heirs of the JP Morgan legacy".

In the course of its intensive scrutiny of Senate hearings on the subject, the book finds similarities between that era's rhetoric about homosexuality as a threat to unit cohesion and the same arguments, used four decades previously, to resist racial integration.

In his 70s, he was still at the forefront of modern coaching techniques, and when Sven-Göran Eriksson was appointed England manager in 2001, he turned to Sexton to run a team of scouts who would compile a database and video library of opposition players, a strategy Sexton had pioneered three decades previously.

The way in which the countries of central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans emerged from communist captivity, made peace (mostly) with their history, and rebuilt the economic, legal, moral and psychological order destroyed five decades previously is a gripping story.

It was all about making Fiji feel at home in the town, as had been the case more than five decades previously.

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