Example sentences of "it [verb] twenty [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , you 've got a garden hose running off your mains as well using , say , twe I do n't know how much it uses twenty gallons a minute , something like that . |
| 2 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 3 | it takes twenty feet |
| 4 | It takes twenty times as much energy to make new aluminium as it does to melt down recycled aluminium , four times as much energy to make new steel as recycled , almost twice as much to create new paper and half as much again to make new glass . |
| 5 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 6 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 7 | Edward , given a private room , discovered the problem first hand : it took twenty minutes before he raised the operator , and another ten before he was talking to Flight Lieutenant Benson . |
| 8 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 9 | The choice of the right level at which to study a phenomenon is as important a strategic decision in biology as is the choice of the right organism or the appropriate control experiment , and it affects present-day research just as much as it did twenty years ago . |
| 10 | I should like , in particular , to explain that if , as he himself desires , the size of the Cabinet is to be restricted [ it had twenty members , more than twice the number in Churchill 's War Cabinet , which oscillated between five and nine ] , the Committee structure affords a useful means of preserving the collective responsibility of Ministers as a whole . |
| 11 | It had twenty rooms in it . |
| 12 | Well he was ringing from Birmingham , he 'd put a pound in , it lasted twenty minutes . |
| 13 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |