Example sentences of "[be] [verb] for twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 2 | That 's no problem , so you 're looking for ten thousand pounds worth of life cover for yourself and then you 're looking for twenty eight to thirty thousand for your daughter projected forward |
| 3 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 4 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 5 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 6 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 7 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 8 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 9 | Thank you , I do n't know if I can be bothered for twenty five pounds , no I would if she asked me , but I do n't know if I 'll bother ringing up as well |
| 10 | A boat called Dodo 's Delight sailed out of Falmouth harbour this week … on board a crew of old boys from Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire … they 're off to make history as the first school group to sail around the world … they 'll be gone for twenty months … so we 're waving them goodbye in our Friday Feature |
| 11 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 12 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 13 | There 's the lamps showing Lot number one O eight there we are showing for twenty pounds at twenty pounds for the lamps at twenty pounds anyone anyone want them ? |
| 14 | Because the State er if he were covered for twenty six weeks full pay |
| 15 | The single parent building a home on supplementary benefit does n't have the tools acquired by workers who 've been earning for twenty or forty years . |
| 16 | Her British certificate has n't been renewed for twenty years . ’ |
| 17 | A heating expert said the boiler had not been serviced for twenty five years , and the flue was blocked . |
| 18 | Two men who ran Britain 's biggest ecstasy smuggling gang have each been jailed for twenty four years at Maidstone Crown Court . |
| 19 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 20 | eight percent erm the two hundred and fifty hectare er two hundred and fifty hectares is needed for twenty eight percent of |
| 21 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |
| 22 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 23 | Adkin New Homes Department has been established for twenty years , servicing a wide selection of large and small developments throughout Oxfordshire on behalf of our builder clients . |
| 24 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 25 | In 1901 a depot was built for twenty cars on Whitegate Drive , Marton , to serve the town routes , but the new cars could not enter because the curves were too tight ! |
| 26 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |