Example sentences of "[be] [verb] twenty [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |
| 2 | And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir . |
| 3 | Although there is apparently little difference in the proportions of male and female carers who are providing twenty hours or more help and support each week , clear gender differences do emerge as care-giving becomes more intensive . |
| 4 | I saw now exactly why , when General Francis 's name came up , Daisy bemoaned the fact that she had not been born twenty years earlier . |
| 5 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 6 | For failing to report you 'll be fined twenty pounds and your licence will be endorsed and for failing afford precedence on the pedestrian on a zebra crossing you 'll be fined ten pounds . |
| 7 | Now , another story that is er an interesting one this morning , and I 'd like to hear your view on , families with two television sets could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 8 | Families with more than one telly , could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence . |
| 9 | Families with two tellies could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licences , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 10 | His show at Rome 's Trajan 's Markets opens on 20 May ( see p. 5 ) , with two editions of the catalogue from Fabbri Editoriale , Milan : an Italian edition , and an international one , to be published twenty days later with photographs of the forum installation . |
| 11 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 12 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 13 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 14 | If you were to ask twenty men or women in the street what they should do to avoid heart disease the majority would say , ‘ take more exercise and eat margarine instead of butter . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already . |
| 16 | Raab is presenting twenty portraits by Ian Hughes ( 2 April–2 May ) , previewed at the gallery 's booth at Art 92 in Islington in February . |
| 17 | Nancy Hoffman is celebrating twenty years in business at her gallery this month . |
| 18 | ‘ Nobody 's advanced twenty miles in this war since the soldiers settled down to do their gardening . ’ |
| 19 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 20 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 21 | Detectives say it could be another six weeks before they can formally identify the body of a woman believed to have been murdered twenty years ago . |
| 22 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 23 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 24 | He was to get twenty pounds a week . |
| 25 | I shuffled towards Mick who was standing twenty yards off the road by the rear of the Land Rover . |
| 26 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 27 | Sigarup was chosen as one of the village representatives and was paid twenty rupees for each of the five days that he attended the course . |