Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty minutes later the Sergeant was showing me my accommodation for the night : a bare cell except for a wooden bunk in one corner and two blankets . |
| 2 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 3 | Twenty minutes later the van came to a halt , but the engine was kept running . |
| 4 | Twenty minutes later the Tucker , Higgs and Kelly Cessna glided off the runway at Grand Bahama Island and tip-tilted one hundred and six miles north to the Abacos , cays where Sutherlands had dwelt since 1789 . |
| 5 | Twenty minutes later the band had been augmented by violins and drums , and several new girls had joined the party . |
| 6 | Twenty minutes later the convoy set out . |
| 7 | Twenty years ago the treasurer 's job was simple and none too arduous . |
| 8 | Twenty years ago the Advisory Council on the Penal System observed that notions of punitiveness do not accord with ‘ the British concept of probation as an alternative to , rather than a suspension of , punishment ’ ( quoted in Bochel , 1976 , p. 238 ) . |
| 9 | Twenty years ago the sight of Japanese tourists lounging in the tropical garden of a Balinese hotel roused curiosity , especially since the Japanese did not travel much for pleasure in those days , and these tourists were only in Bali for the weekend . |
| 10 | Twenty years ago the Netherlands was keen to capitalise on the giant Groningen field as swiftly as possible , fearing a short-lived market for gas . |
| 11 | Twenty years ago the intention was to exploit the Groningen gas as quickly as possible while there was a market . |
| 12 | Twenty years ago the rainforests covered 65 per cent of Thailand , now they only cover 12 per cent . |
| 13 | Twenty years ago the Watergate crisis proved that even the most powerful man in the world could be brought to account by the people and their representatives in the Press and courts . |
| 14 | Twenty years ago the city 's population never thought of spending a day at the beach . |
| 15 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 16 | It is difficult to believe that fifteen to twenty years ago the majority of people in this country did not have a bank Current Account . |
| 17 | ‘ Twenty years ago the Jewish National Fund was established for the purpose of purchasing land as the inalienable property of the Jewish people . |
| 18 | Just over twenty years ago the war had ended . |
| 19 | It 's quite commonly said that twenty years ago the universities and colleges decided to treat students as adults and leave them to organise their own affairs erm and the argument about what to do in this area is n't an argument about whether it 's a serious problem , but about what are appropriate and even effective forms of intervention . |
| 20 | Yet only twenty years later the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield was the focus of the attention of around twenty million viewers as Steve Davis was defeated on the final ball of the final frame by Dennis Taylor , who became the world champion in what The Times ( won over to ‘ popular culture ’ under its antipodean ownership ) declared to be a ‘ heart-stopping ’ match . |
| 21 | Twenty years later the AEC demonstrates that this remains no less true now than it was then . |
| 22 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 23 | In 1740 Britain exported about £0.7m. to North America and about the same amount to the West Indies , but twenty years later the West Indies took £1m. and the mainland took £2m. , while imports from the West Indies ran at £1.8m. and from the mainland at £0.6m . |
| 24 | Twenty years later the population had risen by 478 but the proportion of the workforce employed in footwear had grown more dramatically , so that not only were 301 men and boys working at the trade but also 123 women and 118 girls . |
| 25 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the twenty years following the Act were ones of such rapid development in policy in the child care field that by 1968 the Seebohm Report recommended the absorption of the child care service by unified social services departments and the merging of specialist child work into generic social work . |