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Blinded by their desire to correct history, Belgrade is senselessly ignoring the fact that it was the same policy that led to a decade of ethnic wars twenty-years ago.
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A glance at the science fiction of fifty-or even twenty-years ago shows how futile it is to peer even a little way into the mists of time, and when dealing merely with the world of men.
Tin 2010
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The original Spider-Man grossed as much as it did because it was good, because it lucked into being the first uniquely American/patriotic franchise to open after 9/11, and because fans and general audiences had been waiting for a Spider-Man movie for twenty-years.
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Somewhere along the way when I was about twenty-years old, I found myself saying this prayer, but it didn't have anything to do with death for me.
Janet Haag: What Is Prayer? A Conversation with Sister Joan Chittister 2010
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It left an indelible mark on the industry for the next twenty-years, in ways both very good and very bad.
Scott Mendelson: 20 Years Later, How Batman Changed the Movie Business 2009
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I have not read the original Maurice Sendak book in twenty-years, so I cannot say how faithfully his vision was executed.
Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Review: Where the Wild Things Are: The IMAX Experience 2009
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First of all, the sheer number of 'I can't believe this movie is twenty-years old' conversations only reminds us what a gloriously good year for movies that 1989 really was.
Scott Mendelson: 20 Years Later, How Batman Changed the Movie Business 2009
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For a smile and a nod to inventiveness, it's intriguing how a team of writers resurrected Thom's character from his twenty-years of being dead.
Tom Gregory: Thom Bierdz: Daytime's Inspired Resurrection Isn't Restless Anymore 2009
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Unfortunately, the last twenty-years have climaxed with an avalanche of adaptations of every conceivable preexisting property.
Scott Mendelson: 20 Years Later, How Batman Changed the Movie Business 2009
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Believe it or not, Tim Burton's Batman turned twenty-years old yesterday.
Scott Mendelson: 20 Years Later, How Batman Changed the Movie Business 2009
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