Example sentences of "twenty of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | [ CHRISTINE HAMMOND ] In 1958 there was only one television in our street , and when the Lone Ranger made his weekly appearance it was like a mini-cinema in John Logue 's front parlour with about twenty of us clustered round the little walnut cabinet . |
| 2 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 3 | Twenty of the specially equipped Esprits are to be sold by US dealers this autumn . |
| 4 | Twenty of Ehret 's illustrations were included in the sumptuous Hortus Cliffortanianus ( 1738 ) . |
| 5 | Only one in twenty of them is reduced to a dependent life in a hospital or home : considerably more , in fact , are carers for others . |
| 6 | All but twenty of this new fleet was built at the English Electric Works at Preston , which already had close links with Blackpool . |
| 7 | Your enemies were annihilated , no fewer than twenty of their men-of-war being sunk or taken . ’ |
| 8 | A few made a short journey , for most privately owned butchers , there were still over twenty of them in the city , operated their own slaughterhouses . |
| 9 | Once when I was young , innocent and unaware of eating amnesia , ‘ weighers-wilt ’ ( ‘ I 'll just take a guess at this — looks like two ounces … ! ’ ) and other related disorders , I became so alarmed about all the people who could n't seem to shed weight on 1,000 calories a day that I interviewed many of them , carefully selected a group of twenty of the most baffling and genuine cases , and incarcerated them in a health farm for a week . |
| 10 | Twenty of these places are in rooms fitted with bunk beds : two for eight people and one for four people . |
| 11 | But then I do n't suppose it 'll matter much with twenty of us in there ; our combined breaths 'll be enough to give us a steam bath . |
| 12 | Here Miss Wharton , as was her custom each Wednesday and Friday , would weed out the dead flowers from the vase in front of the statue of the Virgin , scrape the wax and candle stubs from the brass holders , dust the two rows of chairs in the Lady Chapel , which would be adequate for the small congregation expected at that morning 's early Mass , and make everything ready for the arrival at nine twenty of Father Barnes . |
| 13 | However , although only one in twenty of those over the age of 55 reported that they were pleased about the plant closure , those who did so were concentrated almost entirely in the group that was within three years of pension age when the redundancies took place . |
| 14 | Some twenty of the cabalists had removed their masks by now , as if in earnest of good faith . |
| 15 | Jeanette : They 're such lovely babies you 'd have twenty of them . |
| 16 | Fewer than one in twenty of sexual assault cases in the survey are covered by more than four newspapers . |
| 17 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 18 | The Pahls in their study had quite a high rate of non-co-operation : twenty of the group of 113 managers whom they wanted to study did not complete the questionnaire ( although the response rate was higher from the wives ' postal questionnaire ) ; of the twenty-nine couples who were asked to give home interviews , six refused and six did not answer the letter . |
| 19 | Attitudes to cleaning — the third in the ‘ dislike ’ list — are a little less negative : twenty of the forty women dislike or hate cleaning , eight ‘ do n't mind ’ it , twelve like or ‘ love ’ it . |
| 20 | In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places . |
| 21 | According to Dr Mary Newcomb Schleier , the organiser of the Frankfurt exhibition , the Genoa showing will not be prolonged , as about twenty of the exhibits travel to Frankfurt . |
| 22 | At the same time , the gallery 's other space at Knokke will be showing twenty of his small-scale drawings : pastels on map paper and india ink on musical scores . |
| 23 | The exhibition gathers more than twenty of the forty sculptures shown at the Hayward Gallery , including such significant works as ‘ Rosebud ’ ( 1962 ) , ‘ Twilight ’ ( 1962 ) , the Tate Gallery 's ‘ Ghengis Khan ’ ( 1963 ) , ‘ Through ’ ( 1965 ) and ‘ Shiva 's Rings ’ ( 1978 ) from the Arts Council 's collection . |
| 24 | The ‘ and Montparnasse ’ of the title covers the Paris period 1912–42 of Marie Vorobieff , known as Marevna , and of over twenty of her friends there , including Soutine , Van Dongen , Laurencin and other Russian-Jewish artists . |
| 25 | In addition , as the responsibility for the registration of unemployment benefit is changing from job centres to unemployment benefit offices , pilot studies are being conducted in twenty of the latter to test new administrative procedures for establishing ‘ availability for work ’ . |
| 26 | At the first elections , Labour gained a majority on the GLC and in twenty of the thirty-two London boroughs ( Rhodes 1970:222 ) . |
| 27 | THE ROBIN HOOD RATE Throughout 1992 , twenty of Nottinghamshire 's top hotels are offering bargain rates during weekends at prices that really are a steal ! |
| 28 | As few as one in twenty of the sample could be described as a utilitarian scientist of puritan middle-class background . |
| 29 | There were about twenty of them . |
| 30 | More than twenty of these points have been documented around the county . |