Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also had a singing part — he had to sing ‘ Do n't Blame Me ’ — which was eventually left on the cutting room floor , along with about twenty minutes of Nicholson 's spoken dialogue . |
| 2 | She had always prided herself on her calm , her coolness under pressure , yet twenty minutes of Luke Calder 's company and she was ready to act like a harpy ! |
| 3 | Twenty minutes after Taylor 's combat the other two Fulmar pilots , Lts . |
| 4 | This luxurious hotel of striking design is situated on its own beach and two inland lagoons just twenty minutes from Phuket Town . |
| 5 | I waited twenty minutes in Glasgow drizzle and still no bus . |
| 6 | Twenty Foot at Hobbs Lot Bridge gave pleasure catches to 10 lb with roach to 8 oz , and match returns to 8 lb . |
| 7 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 8 | Hodson admitted that , prior to giving evidence to the Committee , he had had no fewer than twenty meetings with Francis Place , the radical tailor of Charing Cross Road . |
| 9 | A small ducal domain — Edward I held only twenty castles in Aquitaine in the 1290s — ensured the survival of his regime and the Plantagenets consciously and purposefully alienated most of their Gascon assets , with the important exception of the wine customs collected at Bordeaux . |
| 10 | I have a mansion and twenty acres in Suffolk , Britain . |
| 11 | In 1901 a depot was built for twenty cars on Whitegate Drive , Marton , to serve the town routes , but the new cars could not enter because the curves were too tight ! |
| 12 | The pre-season dispute over which contest — the Eddie Aikau or the Triple Crown — would have priority if the surf topped twenty feet at Waimea seemed about as relevant as an argument over how many angels you could fit on a pinhead . |
| 13 | Elliott moved the car along the street , staying a few yards back from Goldmam who was twenty feet behind Helen and Nicola , his pace increasing as the distance narrowed , timing it nicely . |
| 14 | His career did not end there , for in 1903 , when the light heavyweight division was created , he became the first man to win three world titles when he became the world light heavyweight champion after beating George Gardner in twenty rounds at San Francisco . |
| 15 | To protect the Lawyer faction , and his own interests , Hale then called up twenty cavalrymen under Captain George Currey . |
| 16 | Harry Wood , a professional for twenty years with Surrey and along with Abel one of three who went ‘ on strike ’ in 1896 demanding a £20 match fee to play the Australians , left the game a bitter man . |
| 17 | The two years in the Cork posting had seemed like twenty years to Roddy . |
| 18 | Twenty years of Arthur , her doggedly dull hypochondriac husband , have taken their toll and , in the mood for a dramatic gesture , she books a room in the ghastly hotel where they spent their wedding night with the intention of committing suicide . |
| 19 | BIUT TASH A reverie lasting more than twenty years on Har Dar Da themes ( cf ) |
| 20 | I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them . |
| 21 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 22 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 23 | Leese was a vet by trade , but no ordinary vet , for he was a specialist in camels , having spent twenty years in India and Africa studying their diseases . |
| 24 | Over the last twenty years in Britain industrial action has affected a whole range of essential services from water , electricity and fire-fighting to the Royal Mail , public transport and health . |
| 25 | Recognising that feminist film theory , criticism and film-making have developed very much in reciprocal relation to each other , I shall try to sketch the major areas of interest and controversy in the past twenty years in Britain and America . |
| 26 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |
| 27 | He had a most successful career , finishing with twenty years in Hamburg as successor to Telemann . |
| 28 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 29 | He gave his consent to the marriage and Llewellyn and Rachael lived for twenty years in Drunkeen , one of the Saunderson family homes . |
| 30 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |