Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty cities within the European Community ( EC ) have joined forces in three EC-sponsored projects aimed at improving public transport and the urban environment , in particular at persuading people to abandon their cars and use buses instead . |
| 2 | So dead bodies are hygienically whisked away by undertakers within a very short ti me of the person dying , funerals are conducted in twenty minutes at a busy crematorium with a bizarre queue of other funerals waiting in an approach way , and grieving people are expected to be back at their employment in as short a time as possible . |
| 3 | Distraught Sarah Miles was forced to wait twenty minutes for a rival bus — just days after another girl the same age was brutally raped on her way to school in Essex . |
| 4 | This fabulous resort , a mere twenty minutes from the recently-opened Holdana International Airport , offers you everything you could want from a holiday — and more ! |
| 5 | Twenty minutes from the urban centres of Kilkenny , and Carlow . |
| 6 | According to the packet , the chicken Kievs only took about twenty minutes in a hot oven . |
| 7 | The excavation was over a mile round and about twenty foot under the surrounding land level . |
| 8 | Alexander Technique : requiring anything up to twenty sessions with a trained teacher , this technique ( named after its originator F. M. Alexander ) concentrates on the correct alignment of the body which , in turn , leads to the elimination of physical and mental stresses . |
| 9 | The Department of Ecclesiastical History takes up the story of the emerging ‘ Jesus movement ’ and carries it forward through twenty centuries to the present day . |
| 10 | It is followed by a setting of Petrarch 's ‘ Hor ch'el Ciel e la Terra el vento tace ’ which begins with a breathtaking suggestion of total silence by means of more than twenty repetitions of a single triad . |
| 11 | ON the edge of limestone country , Ease Gill is classic limestone : at its lower end it is a dry " alley with an impressive cavernous " kirk " , and further upstream it has the waterfall at Cow Dub where the beck leaves a pure white flowstone bed to drop twenty feet through a collapsed cavern into a deep pool where it is again cupped in limestone . |
| 12 | Its precondition was that the surf at Waimea Bay should be over twenty feet for the entire duration of the day in which the contest would be surfed . |
| 13 | This morning they had twenty tonnes of a special limestone called Redgra delivered from a quarry in the Forest of Dean . |
| 14 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 15 | The Cuban law made provision for compensation with government bonds , redeemable within twenty years with an annual interest rate of 4.5 per cent . |
| 16 | Ricimer more than anyone else dominated the politics of the last twenty years of the Roman Empire in the west . |
| 17 | The sacrifice of Tiutiunnyk and his men , because sacrifice was how it was seen in Bazar , lingered for twenty years as a whispered obsession in the minds of the townspeople . |
| 18 | Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) . |
| 19 | Bagshot had served for twenty years in the Royal Marines . |
| 20 | Al-Lurd was Lord Cromer , the man who had run Egypt for over twenty years before the present incumbent . |
| 21 | Twenty participants from the Asia-Pacific Region will be invited to the seminar . |
| 22 | Twenty participants from the Asia-Pacific Region will be invited to the seminar . |
| 23 | Making reference to the emotive yet eccentric account compiled by the historian , Michelet , who had witnessed the French Revolution as a young boy , Kiefer has constructed twenty beds for the female martyrs and heroines of that great and terrible event . |
| 24 | So a hundred and twenty percent as a decimal fraction is one point two . |
| 25 | Twenty teams from the Royal Bank , the Bank of Scotland and the Clydesdale took part , the runners-up prize going to a team from of Scotland . |
| 26 | It costs up to thirty pounds for the first series of jabs … ansd then between fifteen and twenty pounds for an annual booster . |
| 27 | Tell you what I 'll charge you qui , twenty quid for the whole day . |
| 28 | Twenty quid for the whole day . |
| 29 | And it 's something like twenty quid for an extra night if you want to stay , the problem is the Holyhead ferries , they 're dreadful ! |
| 30 | When they left the house next morning , to a sunny , rain-washed world , the first thing they noticed as they stepped out of the drive was a charcoal BMW with two young men in it , parked twenty yards from the front gate . |