Example sentences of "for [adv] [subord] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pen 's barrel is not cracked and the lever is capable of movement then it should be possible to repair it for less than twenty pounds . |
| 2 | Heavier caring responsibilities were clearly associated with lower rates of employment ; only about one-fifth of working-age women providing more than fifty hours a week care for an elderly person were employed , compared with two-thirds of married women and half of all single ( never-married ) women caring for less than twenty hours a week ( McLaughlin , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | On the right to vote for example , the U K grants this right to all U K citizens who 've been out of the country for less than twenty years , while Germany extends voting rights to all German nationals residing in another member country of the council of Europe and those who 've lived in non-member country for less than ten years . |
| 4 | I know , but I want to see how much there worth , so there about , see if we can get one for less than twenty pounds ca n't you . |
| 5 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 6 | Stanley has been going to Scourie for more than twenty years and knows every single blade of grass and stone , by name ; he can take you to a loch and point out precisely where you will catch fish and where you wo n't , to the inch , and Stanley is never wrong . |
| 7 | It has been used effectively for example in destroying odours from maggot farms which had caused a nuisance over a wide area , for more than twenty years and not even a tall chimney was necessary to remove the resultant exhaust gases . |
| 8 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 9 | Experiments to find vine clones best suited to the solumological and climatical conditions of Champagne have been continuing for more than twenty years . |
| 10 | Christo 's proposal to wrap the Reichstag , under consideration for more than twenty years , reaches a critical phase as the Bundestag , Germany 's parliament , prepares to vote on the issue . |
| 11 | For more than twenty years , Rockwell 's work has been shown in the Norman Rockwell Museum , a small white clapboard house on the main street of picturesque Stockbridge , Massachusetts , where visitors grew from 5,000 people in 1969 to 160,000 today . |
| 12 | A British audience will not have seen his work for more than twenty years , although he was included by his earlier art in the Tate Gallery 's ‘ St Ives ’ exhibition of 1985 , and the new works , delicately constructed and monochromatic in colour , will be a happy surprise . |
| 13 | The French and English kings sometimes had to help those who had served them to regain their freedom : in 1444 Sir John Handford , who had been in France for more than twenty years , received 15,000 livres from Henry VI as a contribution towards the purchase of his freedom ; while Jean de Rodemack got a substantial sum towards the payment of his ransom from René d'Anjou , and Georges de la Trémoîlle received a seigneurie in Poitou from Charles VII in lieu of ransom promised but not paid . |
| 14 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 15 | This has been my home for more than twenty years . |
| 16 | She kept my home for more than twenty years , and she taught my daughters everything she knew . |
| 17 | For more than twenty years you have advised me to be cautious , to consider the full implications of my actions , but now , suddenly , you counsel me to rashness . ’ |
| 18 | They worked together for more than twenty years . |
| 19 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 20 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 21 | Among women under 65 who were caring for more than twenty hours a week , only 40 per cent were employed , compared with 62 per cent of women generally ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 23 | Make- up artists are brought in to transform the faces of these girls ; their hands are slapped away from beige foundation , and the sleek colours of Chanel bring the glow of affluent youth to faces that have for more than twenty years caused most men to avert their gazes in dismay . |
| 24 | She taught much of the practical work in the natural sciences for the women students of Newnham and Girton Colleges for more than twenty years , and she was recognized as a stimulating teacher who demanded high-quality work . |
| 25 | The name of Heryng is found in and around Halling ; in 1346 Richard de Hales of Cobham , proved his legitimacy and that his father was married to Agnes Heryng of Halling in Halling Church more than forty years before and had lived as man and wife for more than twenty five years and that Richard was the said child was born and recognised as son and heir . |
| 26 | After his death Palestine was a bone of contention for more than twenty years . |
| 27 | I have acted for your great-uncle for more than twenty years now , and have often been left in charge of his affairs during his long absences abroad , on digs all over Europe and North Africa and the Middle East , everywhere that the Roman and Graeco-Roman power extended . |
| 28 | For several decades , therefore , one important section of the working-class movement and one school of socialist thought became identified with an authoritarian — and for more than twenty years tyrannical — form of government . |
| 29 | BI The name of the mythical northern cockerel ; a reverie that lasts for more than twenty ( Earth ) years |
| 30 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |