Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | According to the packet , the chicken Kievs only took about twenty minutes in a hot oven . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This morning they had twenty tonnes of a special limestone called Redgra delivered from a quarry in the Forest of Dean . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | So a hundred and twenty percent as a decimal fraction is one point two . |
| 12 | If your microhabitat is on a window-sill that is twenty floors up a high-rise block , the animals will need to fly to reach it . |