Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 2 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 3 | Twenty percent of your current salary . |
| 4 | And then I got twenty , I could n't believe it when I , when I got twenty quid off my other grandma , she normally gives us a fiver . |
| 5 | Okay Doris , well , far from paying another twenty quid for her extra television set , Doris is very annoyed she 's got to pay eighty three quid for a colour licence , and she 's gon na now go to black and white . |
| 6 | I paid you twenty quid for your bloody membership ! |