Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 2 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And here I ought to perhaps make it clear that the circles I provided on the sheet which was distributed , allow for a density of twenty houses per hectare . |
| 5 | Erm oh we 'll they 're going to go for twenty P plus cost of the stamped addressed return envelope |
| 6 | The Sztuki will be sending more than 700 pieces and more than twenty hours of video as well as eight performance artists who will show their installations at the Espace Lyonnaise d'Art Contemporain . |
| 7 | The Speaker has to use his power of selection drastically , choosing about a quarter of the amendments put down but the discussions are extensive , the committee stage usually allowing some twenty hours of debate followed by a report stage and third reading . |
| 8 | The General Household Survey 's special analysis of carers in 1985 ( Green , 1988 ) suggested that : 1.7 million adults are caring for someone living with them ; 1.4 million are spending at least twenty hours per week doing so ; and 3.4 million are bearing the main responsibility for the care of someone . |
| 9 | Mrs proposes that there should be such a classroom assistant or an enabler for twenty hours per week that would almost cover the full classroom week of twenty five hours . |
| 10 | In these circumstances in my judgment there is entirely adequate support for Paul of the sort that Mrs envisaged and indeed I am inclined to the view that one to one dedicated support for him out of classroom hours may not be desirable and might well tend at least to come between him and his fellow pupils so if one turns to Mrs schedule one on page forty seven , papers before me , I think that the appropriate arithmetic is to provide for twenty hours per week at seven pounds per hour for thirty seven school weeks , that is an enabler for the school period , I confess that I find it much easier to deal with Mrs schedules on page forty seven by treating schedule one as having to do with the , the school period , schedule two having to deal with the home periods and schedule three with parental care , as it is actually set out on page forty seven , and I confess that during the case I kept confusing myself about this point , schedule one deals not only with school but also , rather confusingly , with an enabler at home and I think it easier to confine that schedule to er school time . |
| 11 | I do not however accept that in addition to the hours of care which she provides at home during the school holidays that there should also be an enabler for twenty hours per week as she suggests that would mean that the number of hours of care , and I appreciate of course , that there is some artificiality in dealing with this in pure terms of numbers of hours of care , but nevertheless it provides a sort of common denominator , which can give some indication , that would mean no less than ninety hours of boarding and care per week fifty during the week erm and twenty during the weekend and a further twenty for the enabler , I think that that er is too great and I make no allowance for an enabler at home . |
| 12 | After protracted negotiations in July 1845 twenty cases of drawings were delivered to the Galleries . |
| 13 | They had suffered from twenty cases of arson in the last two months of 1921 , which he ascribed to White supporters of Kolchak . |
| 14 | ‘ Nine hours and twenty minutes to detonation . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 17 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 18 | Within twenty minutes of arrival , we had both caught the prescribed limit ; strange , stump-tailed rainbow trout that threw themselves instantly at whatever fly we offered . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | It can not totally replace exercise , but it is in fact the same in body stimulation terms as a good massage or twenty minutes of jogging ! |
| 21 | Johnson 's ‘ about a mile ’ takes twenty minutes on foot , quite a downhill journey , and , if Old Aberdeen be small , it is also pleasing . |
| 22 | Twenty minutes on sun bed ( repeat each week ) . |
| 23 | But a you 've only had twenty minutes on group dynamics . |
| 24 | The result is that the network only sends duff data once every twenty minutes on average . |
| 25 | no they take about twenty minutes with salt a little bit of salt , give them plenty of water so that |
| 26 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 27 | And we had er two hours off during the day , er and twenty minutes for dinner and er about twenty minutes for tea . |
| 28 | After twenty minutes or so , turn the oven down to gas mark 4 , 180°C/325°F and roast for a further twenty minutes per pound . |
| 29 | Twenty minutes after Taylor 's combat the other two Fulmar pilots , Lts . |
| 30 | Twenty minutes before ingestion of the meal , the usual insulin dose was administered by the patients . |