Example sentences of "twenty [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She at first refuses to help him , suspecting a trap to catch her out in witchery , but as the clerk , Wilekin , persists she finally agrees to solve the problem , accepting twenty shillings in payment . |
| 2 | I waited twenty minutes in Glasgow drizzle and still no bus . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have a mansion and twenty acres in Suffolk , Britain . |
| 6 | Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large , intricately meshed fishing nets , twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter ! |
| 7 | But Wembley Stadium says it only has room for twenty fans in wheelchairs . |
| 8 | Moving slowly and cautiously so as not to rip any of the rubber components of their diving suits , they passed in file into a compartment not more than four feet in height but almost twenty feet in length , extending from the nose cone , under the flight deck and then several feet beyond . |
| 9 | The hurricane-lamp was placed about twenty feet in front and pumped up to maximum brilliance while we lay sweating and mosquito-bitten in the shadows , fingering our cameras and the trigger of our temperamental Sun Gun , expecting that at any moment a curious snake would be drawn to the light from the shadows behind us , rather than from the cave ahead . |
| 10 | After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron 's family funds its display |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior in Europe opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 20 January after nearly twenty years in storage through lack of funds . |
| 13 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |
| 17 | The jury twenty years in time and with the information you had from Superintendent , did you consider that instead of mounting a an operation like that , you should simply surround the flat or be with . |
| 18 | He had a most successful career , finishing with twenty years in Hamburg as successor to Telemann . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He gave his consent to the marriage and Llewellyn and Rachael lived for twenty years in Drunkeen , one of the Saunderson family homes . |
| 21 | Nancy Hoffman is celebrating twenty years in business at her gallery this month . |
| 22 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 23 | Within the balcony we 've got representatives from Tylers at Crawley , representatives of twenty three of our colleagues , who have been on strike for twenty weeks in defence of jobs , in defence of pay and equally important , in defence of safety standards |
| 24 | The project known as Chemistry Plus — chemistry plus applications , linked teachers with over twenty organisations in order to create up to date resources for pupils studying the National Curriculum . |
| 25 | For example , between 1338 and 1376 the Earl of Arundel bought over twenty manors in Sussex and Surrey . |
| 26 | In the services , it is estimated that for every front-line soldier there are twenty people in support . |
| 27 | It was about twenty yards in diameter . |
| 28 | Twenty yards in front of the gravel pathway was a low mound where the launcher mechanism for the clays sat . |
| 29 | You do n't have to walk with me , you know , you can walk twenty yards in front if you want then well I 'll get the car 's right up there , right up top end . |
| 30 | ‘ The entrance to the lower mine , is by a level of two hundred and twenty yards in length , which communicates with a shaft , one hundred yards deep . |