Example sentences of "twenty [noun pl] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former measurement is in terms of a value equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the root-means square pressure of a sound to the reference pressure , which is normally taken to be two times ten to the minus five newtons per square metre , and the unit of measurement is on a uniform scale based upon ten times the logarithm to the base ten |
| 2 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 3 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 4 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 5 | Pointing to the Conservative Party 's own canvassing returns which show that they have a 20pc lead over Labour he added : ‘ Our own returns based on a sample twenty times the size of The Northern Echo survey show a quite different picture . |
| 6 | But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate . |
| 7 | The N R P B at Chilton has produced the report with the Royal College of Radiologists , and it 's revealed patients in one region , may receive up to twenty times the radiation dose of patients in another region . |
| 8 | After twenty minutes the squad leader turned and came across to Tolonen . |
| 9 | After twenty minutes the groups would be asked to formulate a question to put to the panel . |
| 10 | It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation . |
| 11 | After twenty years the Dwarfs abandon the mines at Mount Silverspear to the Orcs . |
| 12 | B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat . |
| 13 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 14 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 15 | In the past twenty years the population of this town has almost doubled and the number of cars using the roads has trebled , making that quote much much more topical . |
| 16 | During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever . |
| 17 | In the past twenty years the planning , organization and equipment of order-maintenance has been steadily updated and centralized , so that the police now has the potential to mobilize thousands of riot-trained and equipped police officers . |
| 18 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 19 | At first the hedges were no more than double rows of seedlings protected by a rail on one side or both , but after twenty years the thorns had grown high enough to be cut and laid , a practice which William Marshall describes as the latest improvement in his Rural Economy of the Midland Counties in 1790 . |
| 20 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 21 | Any advance on twenty pounds the lot ? |
| 22 | All finished now at twenty pounds the lot . |
| 23 | Any advance on twenty pounds the lot ? |
| 24 | Any advance on twenty pounds the lot ? |
| 25 | Any advance on twenty pounds the lot ? |
| 26 | Twenty pounds the lot . |
| 27 | Any advance on twenty pounds the lot ? |
| 28 | For the next twenty miles the road ran beside the restrained waters of the Danube . |