Example sentences of "for the [num ord] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring , I can not say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all . |
| 2 | Once I know how fast my ‘ feeder is emptying , or have made it empty at the pace I require , I cast very frequently for the first twenty minutes or so — as fast as the emptying of the ‘ feeder will allow — and then slow down only just enough to keep a steady trickle of feed through the swim . |
| 3 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 4 | They shifted the responsibility for provision for sickness absence for the first twenty eight weeks from the national insurance scheme to a statutory sick pay scheme to be run by employers . |
| 5 | For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions , somewhat alleviated at Broadmoor , where terraces allowed views of the surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 7 | for the first twenty one years |
| 8 | So it 's now we 've got seven people , it 's gon na make it a lot easier for the first twenty containers which is forty containers in actual fact is n't it . |
| 9 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 10 | Then , for the last twenty minutes , the road snakes down the mountainside . |
| 11 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 12 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 13 | But for the last twenty years , and increasingly so at the moment , quick profits are what the rainforests are all about . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 15 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 16 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 17 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 18 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 19 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 20 | The equality of opportunity and equal pay for work of equal value and all those things are are are are issues which er have been fought over for the last twenty years . |
| 21 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 22 | For the last twenty years , it has used the data provided by the Family Expenditure Surveys to estimate the net benefit which different income groups derive from public expenditure . |
| 23 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 24 | For the last twenty years of progressive manufacturing decline in Britain , the one optimistic assertion had been that while industry 's contraction might be irreversible , at least the City of London remained the financial centre of Europe and second only perhaps to New York in the world . |
| 25 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |
| 26 | Wandering the stalls was South African attorney Ismael Ayob , who has represented the Mandelas for the last twenty years . |
| 27 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
| 28 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 29 | Nitrate levels have been rising in the ground water in Nottinghamshire , certainly most of the bore-holes , for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 30 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |