Example sentences of "was twenty [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was twenty minutes later when the ambulance arrived . |
| 2 | It was twenty minutes later , and Morse had decided ( insisted ) that his temporary HQ in the Lancaster Room should be moved to more permanent quarters in the Chapters Bar Annexe . |
| 3 | Annie was twenty minutes away from there . |
| 4 | He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glass cubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch . |
| 5 | Jekub was twenty feet away , vibrating gently in the early morning mist . |
| 6 | Yanto , who was twenty yards ahead with Molly , had turned on hearing the unmistakable sound of cork leaving bottle . |
| 7 | The taxi driver waited until he was twenty yards away and then shot him . |
| 8 | And that was twenty years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ But that was twenty years ago . ’ |
| 10 | That was twenty years ago . |
| 11 | That was twenty years ago . |
| 12 | It was embarrassing , the way he kept on about her being the same as she was twenty years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ That was twenty years ago . |
| 14 | The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times . |
| 15 | no , maybe I was only about five , maybe it was twenty years ago |
| 16 | Well that was twenty years ago that was . |
| 17 | Erm , some of you are very critical of , of , of the Penguin operation when you were in the U S A but I have to tell you , they did achieve record sales there last year and increased market share and in fact the children 's er , book publishing was twenty percent ahead of the year before . |