Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So like yourself , you 've got a daughter , who perhaps fifteen , twenty years ' time , will be getting married , at which point the policy could be surrendered to put towards the cost of the wedding . |
| 32 | erm It 's often long-range , strategic research which people are doing which erm it will contribute in ten or twenty years ' time , provided that industry picks it up appropriately . |
| 33 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 34 | I would have done anything for Charlie , and was , in fact , even now sorting out twenty years ' worth of his possessions . |
| 35 | She pressed it with her tongue , as she had pressed hundreds , thousands now , over twenty years ' worth of these papery discs stamped with crosses , made by nuns . |
| 36 | Some limited home responsibilities protection was introduced in April 1978 in order to help women in this position , but in order to qualify for a full pension they still require twenty years ' worth of contributions or credits . |
| 37 | Twenty years ' worth . |
| 38 | We 're taking people on in the copy group and we 've got twenty years ' worth of adverts . |
| 39 | The Twenty Years ' Crisis was a sustained critique of the way in which utopian thought had dominated international relations in the inter-war years . |
| 40 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 41 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 42 | Finally , women could never receive the maximum compensation because of differential retirement ages , payments based on age , and the ceiling of twenty years ' maximum that counted towards payments . |
| 43 | For example , despite Odysseus ' twenty years ' absence from home , on his return neither he nor Penelope appear to have grown any older . |
| 44 | The present book is the fruit of twenty years ' research and is an exhaustive catalogue of the families of silver makers who produced commemorative spoons for generations of prosperous West Country yeomen and their families , above all for births and christenings . |
| 45 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 46 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 47 | that like fixes on to her T-shirt , and twenty tapes and she 's got ta make twenty recordings ' worth , twenty tapes ' worth |
| 48 | twenty , twenty quid 's worth maybe at the end . |
| 49 | twenty quid 's worth at her party ? |
| 50 | Twenty quid 's worth . |
| 51 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |
| 52 | We 've got twenty year 's experience thousands of ads on our on our records . |
| 53 | Twenty year 's worth of experience in bringing ads together give us and we 've got thousands of examples |