Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] twenty [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses , built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones , which were white and enormous , like prehistoric eggs . |
| 2 | In order to fit the result of selecting two decimal digits ( a maximum value of 99 ) into a range of twenty storage positions , 20 is subtracted repetitively from the two digits until the result is less than 20 . |
| 3 | You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time . |
| 4 | It was a copy of The Daily Gleaner ; from a distance of twenty feet Martha could read all the headlines and some of the smaller print . |
| 5 | At the age of twenty Evelyn Waugh wrote a story for Harold Acton called ‘ Anthony , Who Sought the Things That Were Lost ’ . |
| 6 | So , before you decide on your end points on the graph , just check where they 're asking read the volume at twenty degrees C , that 's okay . |
| 7 | He marks this anniversary with an exhibition of works on paper by twenty gallery artists ( to 20 December ) including Sandra Blow , Jennifer Durrant , Sheila Girling , John McLean , Mali Morris and Jules Olitski . |
| 8 | General or Block Plan ’ was a list of twenty government departments and their floor areas ; under ‘ Design , No. 2. ’ was a list of rooms required by the Foreign Office ; and under ‘ Design , No. 3. ’ was a list of rooms for the War Department . |
| 9 | 1775 " A plan and Estimate of a Church yeard Dyke arround the Kirk of Bowmore , amounting to ffourty four pounds one shilling and seven pence sterling , being produced , which sum Shawfield is to lay out next season , and this meeting stent themselves with the sum of twenty pounds Sterling of the said sum for this year , and agree that the rest of the said sum be stented in following years . " |
| 10 | I put erm , studies by Helen and Tate , nineteen eighty three , found public sector employment averaged forty four percent of non-agricultural employment in twenty L D Cs and in extreme cases were Tanzania and Zambia , were as high as seventy eight and eighty one percent respectively . |
| 11 | MSC ( 1986 ) reviews the current use of simulators in twenty U.K. industries . |
| 12 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 13 | He is remembered chiefly for his series of twenty Organ Sonatas , but there is much more besides ; a substantial corpus of choral music , including three Requiems and no fewer than twelve Masses , two operas , a Symphony , symphonic poem , two Concertos for Organ ( once upon a time available from E. Power Biggs on a CBS LP ) and one for Piano — and a fair amount of chamber music , sixteen opus numbers in all , of which this Thorofon CD ( the least of seven ) rounds off a complete recording . |