Example sentences of "in twelve [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In fact , Milton 's skipper , Paul Storey hacked the ball off his own line in twelve minutes as Bishops looked for an early goal . |
| 3 | Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him . |
| 4 | Stephen Duck 's poetry , for example , appeared in twelve editions before he published an authorized edition . |
| 5 | It was published regularly for almost a century and appeared in twelve editions and seven languages . |
| 6 | And then I m I exchanged in twelve months cos I was lucky I had put my name in two places to get a car . |
| 7 | ‘ Acceptance of these principles moved forward the goals of welfare , ’ Titmuss argued : after July 1940 the number of children taking school meals doubled in twelve months and those taking milk in schools rose 50% . |
| 8 | The only severe check came in 1625 when plague killed one in twelve people and raised the death rate to three times the annual norm ; after that the population remained stable for almost 150 years . |
| 9 | Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue . |
| 10 | Degenhart and Schmitt talk about their Corpus of Italian drawings in twelve volumes and still growing |
| 11 | 21 books of Poetry and 50 of History with Rollin 's " Ancient History " in twelve volumes and Rapin 's " History of England " in fifteen ; but only two on the " History of Scotland " by Buchanan , two of Walker 's " History of the Hebrides , " Gregory 's " Western Highlands " and Clelland 's " Rise and Progress of Glasgow . " |