Example sentences of "[adv] twenty [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recommended by live letters of the Daily Mirror , comfortable family run guest house , away from the hustle of the town centre yet only twenty minutes walk to the conference centre , and two minutes walk to the seafront , situated in old worldy Kemptown , you will be welcomed by Hilda and Doug Beard , and be served a full English breakfast , tea making facilities are in all rooms also colour TV , keys are provided with access at all times , there is also free street parking . |
| 2 | The Pizza Eater was only twenty minutes walk away from the flat . |
| 3 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 4 | Which is like just a se , it 's about twenty minutes walk from our houses I think . |
| 5 | Rocky O'Rourke , in the cab of his big sixteen wheeler , was parked about twenty yards north of the gates . |
| 6 | I mean Preston is about twenty miles south of er where we are but I know that there are gardens north of where we are that do grow good peaches but what they do they cover the er plants during the early spring round about February time and they cover it with very fine ne net , that 's all they need to do with it just cover it up when the flowers are out , make sure that they lift it off every now and again to do the pollinating , get them set and then when the frosts have gone take the net off . |
| 7 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 8 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 9 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 10 | With its source barely twenty kilometres south-west of le Pailly and Langres , the Aube flows through Bar-sur-Aube — whose vineyards , together with those of Bar-sur-Seine , provide about fourteen per cent of the total production of Champagne — before joining the Seine fifteen kilometres from Nogent-sur-Seine . |
| 11 | For the third time in just over twenty years Giovanni Bellini 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ has been stolen from the church of the Madonna dell'Orto in Venice . |
| 12 | And that script has been built up over twenty years experience . |
| 13 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |
| 14 | With daytime temperatures over twenty degrees Celsius , and hills rising to over 4,000 feet , use of mogas was out , even before the hassle of getting it . |