Example sentences of "[prep] twelve [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong gave Sunderland the lead after twelve minutes and Gabiadini increased their lead five minutes later . |
| 2 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 3 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 4 | A faintly powdery smell hung with them , but they were not moth-eaten , would still fit her despite twelve years and the bearing of a child . |
| 5 | The word ‘ service ’ here needs emphasizing , too , for while it is simple to establish that the law requires the appointment of twelve Governors and that twelve have been appointed , a broadcasting service is organic , extensive , continuous — and difficult to evaluate . |
| 6 | But nevertheless in terms of twelve families that 's very important to those twelve and it 's a small step , but the problem is so big that it needs concerted Government action to solve the problem of homeless people in Oxford . |
| 7 | A Freedom Fighter fires a bullet to an enemy group consisting of twelve soldiers and three civilians all equally exposed to the bullet . |
| 8 | Taking account too of the closure of the News Chronicle , the Sunday Dispatch and several other Sundays following the Kemsley sale , five out of twelve dailies and six out of eleven Sundays — half the entire national press — saw their ownership , existence or status ( as a ‘ national ’ ) affected during less than two years between August 1959 and June 1961 . |
| 9 | They amounted to the grand sum of twelve pounds and ten shillings — a fortune ! |
| 10 | Ribs were broken up and mostly lost , vertebrae had all their processes removed and three out of nine lost , pelves were reduced to the region of the acetabulum and one damaged beyond recognition , and five out of twelve phalanges and metapodials remained . |
| 11 | The RAF had two squadrons of Hunters and four Shackleton bombers at Aden , and a transport force of twelve Beverleys and six Vallettas split between Aden and Kenya . |
| 12 | Greve 's piece de resistance , at Albertusstrasse , is a show of twelve sculptures and twelve photographs by John Chamberlain . |
| 13 | The proposed community , to be established on the banks of the Susquehannah river in New England , would consist of twelve men and women , and would sustain itself by farming the land . |
| 14 | But knowledge develops unevenly ; Dewey 's luck was not so conspicuous when it came to , say , radio engineering , where relatively simple new subjects end up with a classification symbol of twelve digits or more . |
| 15 | The agreement would last for a period of twelve months as from 1 July 1949 , with a dual trade flow amounting to about £55 million . |
| 16 | This registration is normally for a period of twelve months and during this time the student will begin work for the research project . |
| 17 | Average current consumption is about 170µA which ensures a battery life in excess of twelve months if alkaline cells are used . |
| 18 | Scenes from the Dodekathlos , the canonical selected number of Twelve Parerga or Labours , to which can be added the Praxeis or Deeds , often incidental to the performance of the Parerga . |
| 19 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 20 | We 're just playing with twelve pennies and she 's making patterns out of them to make multiplication tables |
| 21 | I 'd like you to play with that and just with twelve pennies until you 've found all the ways of arranging them like that . |
| 22 | And with twelve guys and only six playing they 'll only get half a game at the most if they 're lucky . |
| 23 | Hey with twelve people and only three pi |
| 24 | Aileen knew how to hold a conversation with twelve people and work hard at the same time . |
| 25 | Included in the fair is a ‘ video box ’ with twelve monitors and a competition for a large-scale sculpture or installation . |
| 26 | So if our mum had cut it up into twelve pieces and then only three people wanted pizza so she cut it up into twelve twelfths and then said who wants pizza and only three people wanted pizza she 'd now have to put some of these twelfths back together again then and just three of us how many twelfths would we get ? |
| 27 | They had already purchased and converted the adjacent vicarage into twelve dwellings and seized the chance to convert the church to provide more units to house the majority of the co-operative on one site . |
| 28 | But Hounslow 's fate was sealed in the eighty eighth minute when Darren Rogers scored from twelve yards after Wayne Green had left his marker for dead , sweeping by him for twenty yards . |
| 29 | I think the proof of the pudding was that y you know you finished up in twelve minutes and arguably you have three minutes could have been spent floating around just chatting about this , that and the other . |
| 30 | In fact , Milton 's skipper , Paul Storey hacked the ball off his own line in twelve minutes as Bishops looked for an early goal . |