Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 2 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |
| 3 | The flame from its mouth passed over the western lands like a comet and woke millennial longings in the hearts of Roman legionaries , who eked out their twenty years of cold service dreaming of victories and of eating fresh figs under the olive trees of home . |
| 4 | ‘ It all looks ludicrous now ’ , observed David Widgery , ‘ but if you realize there had been twenty years of Cold War normalism this was a very exuberant reaction to the world of Pepsodent ads , and the father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal ? kind of thing which was still the prevailing mentality . |
| 5 | The number of weeks paid holiday that a worker will get is increasing rapidly so as today we have the norm of twenty days plus public bank holidays , giving more time if you like to engage in a package holiday abroad . |
| 6 | It could seat twenty passengers on rattan cane seats , who boarded by a short ladder over the sides ! |
| 7 | The other day he swam twenty laps for all-over muscle tone . |
| 8 | Er for high traffic forecast there would be the blue route would save and this is a thirty year thirty year assessment period which is a standard assessment period for major road schemes , twenty four fatalities under high traffic growth conditions , twenty fatalities under low traffic growth . |
| 9 | New doubt over twenty men in top security jail . |