Example sentences of "twenty [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The twenty illustrations include a gaufrage of Picasso 's highly distinctive signature and include depictions of nymphs , animals and a portrait of Françoise . |
| 2 | Three years earlier he had produced twenty illustrations , as well as endpapers and cover design for The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower , short stories for children which Paul published with Lehmann under the name ‘ Odo Cross ’ . |
| 3 | Along with Terri Hooley , they picked twenty acts for this year 's bash not only on the basis of demos they 'd listened to but also knowing the bands live capabilities intimately . |
| 4 | Outside they admired a pink brick yard for twenty ponies , which looked like three sides of a Battenberg cake , and an indoor school , completely walled with bullet-proof mirrors . |
| 5 | T V is rated at a hundred and twenty watts , right ? |
| 6 | Each term approximately twenty proposals are reviewed and evaluated before agreement by the Academic Standards Committee ( ASC ) on behalf of Academic Board . |
| 7 | Then he would touch his toes twenty times . |
| 8 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 9 | Twenty times over you repeat that the earth is your mother , and about chieftainship of the earth . |
| 10 | ‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already . |
| 11 | Between doses the water is best agitated by lifting a spoonful up in the air and allowing it to splash back in the glass ten or twenty times . |
| 12 | He must be able to decide rightly whether a native chiefs first offence should be punished , or whether patience should be exercised until he has offended ten , nay twenty times — either course may be the right one , it depends entirely on circumstances . |
| 13 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 14 | It is twenty times faster , has a larger memory , is thousands of times more reliable , consumes the power of a light bulb rather than that of a locomotive , occupies 1/30,000 the volume and costs 1/10,000 as much . |
| 15 | Do n't forget , too , the Grand Opera House has two score of inexpensive slip seats sold only after ten of the clock on the day and they are excellent seats too — far better than seats at twenty times their price in great opera houses around the world . |
| 16 | ‘ Watch your tongue , Forest — I 've sufficient information against you and the other rogue to hang you both twenty times over . |
| 17 | Shop budget account Credit facility from a particular shop , up to a certain ceiling which is a multiple ( say , twenty times ) of fixed monthly payments ( say £5 ) ; interest , at rate which may occasionally be changed , charged on what is owed . |
| 18 | Investigations by the Mid-Western Health Board found that grass samples showed readings six times over the maximum contamination levels allowed by EEC regulations , while Mrs Minogue 's vegetables had over twenty times the normal contamination level . |
| 19 | Pulling down Anthony 's pants , Jerry Lewis whipped the boy about twenty times . |
| 20 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 21 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 22 | She could never remember the Alice 's registration number without looking it up , though she saw it twenty times a day . |
| 23 | Go through each of the stages about twenty times before moving on to the next stage . |
| 24 | I could hoover this one twenty times a day . |
| 25 | In its original form the test consists simply of asking respondents to complete the sentence beginning with ‘ I am … ’ twenty times over . |
| 26 | But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate . |
| 27 | The price of a large coffee-table book is in a number of cases twenty times higher than it was two years ago . |
| 28 | Exhibited internationally twenty times , it is expected to sell for around £2.5 million ( $4.25 million ) , unless previously purchased for the nation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was ten to twenty times more powerful than a candle , and thus encouraged the furniture into the room away from the fire , which had often served as supplementary lighting . |