Example sentences of "only twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was only twenty when he made his debut in England in 1963 , promptly setting a West Indian record with 24 dismissals in the series . |
| 4 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 5 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 6 | The man had never seen it , although it lay only twenty miles to the north . |
| 7 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |
| 8 | We were only twenty or thirty yards from the line-up , albeit divided from it by a thin blue line of helmeted , truncheon-tipped breakers . |
| 9 | Of the 180 Irish passengers who boarded at Queenstown , only twenty were saved . |
| 10 | He was only twenty one . |
| 11 | We also know that people who have lost a limb , or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago . |
| 12 | Only twenty months later , John married his second wife Jennie . |
| 13 | It is true , however , that 90 per cent of this fluid can be retrieved in only twenty minutes while we are lying horizontally . |
| 14 | Claiming to speak for the eighty per cent of Kindertransporte refugees who were clearly Jewish ( though of these only twenty per cent were orthodox and at least fourteen per cent were non-practising ) , Schonfeld argued a policy of Jewish homes for Jewish children and , if this failed , for the RCM to devote its energies to raising money for hostels where religious supervision ( of a strictly orthodox nature ) could be guaranteed . |
| 15 | The lift leading down to the diving area was only twenty feet away . |
| 16 | The treasurer , in sharp , clipped tones , was listing the committee 's various expenditures and was bringing to the attention of the members the fact that there was only twenty dollars in hand . |
| 17 | ‘ Murdering a man will cost you forty sheep , murdering a woman , only twenty ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 19 | Exeter with its 13th-century cathedral , maritime museum is only twenty miles away . |
| 20 | Easily Accessible : The centre of London with myriad attractions is only twenty minutes away . |
| 21 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 22 | Charles Darwin ( 1809–1882 ) was only twenty seven when he returned , in 1836 , from the five-year voyage of HMS Beagle . |
| 23 | A small ducal domain — Edward I held only twenty castles in Aquitaine in the 1290s — ensured the survival of his regime and the Plantagenets consciously and purposefully alienated most of their Gascon assets , with the important exception of the wine customs collected at Bordeaux . |
| 24 | Harris opened his first London gallery in 1928 when only twenty years old , concentrating largely on Spanish Old Masters , and held his last and widely acclaimed exhibition ‘ From Greco to Goya ’ in November 1938 , during the Spanish Civil War , all proceeds going to the Red Cross . |
| 25 | Recommended by live letters of the Daily Mirror , comfortable family run guest house , away from the hustle of the town centre yet only twenty minutes walk to the conference centre , and two minutes walk to the seafront , situated in old worldy Kemptown , you will be welcomed by Hilda and Doug Beard , and be served a full English breakfast , tea making facilities are in all rooms also colour TV , keys are provided with access at all times , there is also free street parking . |
| 26 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 27 | In their heavy construction industry , for example , a maximum value of only twenty per cent of any project can be contracted to firms from outside Germany . ’ |
| 28 | He 's only twenty and he 's had six detoxes already . |
| 29 | I think that had I grown up with my parents only twenty years before , I would not now believe this . |
| 30 | The average sentence lengths of the two passages are fifty-seven words for Conrad , and only twenty for Lawrence & ) ; in Conrad the ratio of independent clauses to dependent clauses is 1:2.8 , and in Lawrence 1:1 ( 46 ) Lawrence , then uses much simpler sentences than Conrad , especially in his third paragraph . |