Example sentences of "[prep] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearer twenty to five nearly , yeah . |
| 2 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 3 | After twenty minutes , they heard Gina come in noisily , scraping her bike against the paintwork in the hall . |
| 4 | After twenty weeks this dieter will have attained all the salt goals . |
| 5 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 6 | I do n't simply love you , I 'm still in love with you , after twenty years . |
| 7 | But there 's no language for love after twenty years of living together , mostly in the same rooms . |
| 8 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 9 | After twenty minutes , I glimpsed her figure , red hat and green coat , shoulders bent , struggling back , snowwoman-like — with a superb trout weighing 2lb . |
| 10 | Reptile in charge of Magic Roundabout clearly loathes children after twenty years of roundabout rides , encourages smallest most ill-coordinated kids to perch on top of vast heaving wood and plaster horse in hope that when ride begins movement will hurl child into machinery for ever . |
| 11 | The first crossing of the Atlantic entirely under steam power was made in 1833 and the ships which travelled that route were among the most famous in the history of steamships : the Mauretania held the Blue Riband or the fastest Atlantic crossing , but after twenty two years it was won by the Queen May . |
| 12 | After twenty minutes , almost a mile away , the fine details had disappeared . |
| 13 | The day was the easiest since Reggane and I came to camp after twenty miles feeling strong , with Aulef only two hours away . |
| 14 | After twenty minutes the groups would be asked to formulate a question to put to the panel . |
| 15 | Do not wipe off any excess until after twenty minutes — it can take this long for the oils to be absorbed . |
| 16 | After twenty years , the Lytham Road track was badly worn , and by the late Fifties the cars performed ever more alarming rolls . |
| 17 | After take-off , we climbed for altitude , but after twenty minutes , the engine heated up and started to shake . |
| 18 | After twenty minutes we returned to the ship , tired but amazed by our experience and looking forward to hoisting up anchor and heading for our next stop , St. Lucia . |
| 19 | But what 's it like after twenty years ? |
| 20 | After twenty minutes Luke felt his Titanic strength was supporting both Maldita and a buckling Perdita , and ordered the latter to bed . |
| 21 | A third signal to terminate the round is given after twenty minutes have elapsed since the second signal . |
| 22 | All I ask , after twenty days , is just one more … |
| 23 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |
| 24 | That 's not easy for me to admit , after twenty years coaching , but it 's the reality ’ . |
| 25 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 26 | After twenty minutes Christine Jackson passed a tart note to Horsley , who looked up sharply and abruptly concluded the interview . |
| 27 | After twenty years ' exposure to religious scrutiny , if deemed worthy and untarnished , this votive tablet would be transferred to the Reclusiam itself . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 29 | Subsistence pensions , at 40s 0d for a married couple or 24s 0d for a single person , were only to be attained after twenty years of slowly rising rates . |
| 30 | After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron 's family funds its display |