Example sentences of "[noun] twenty [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's it 's say I say I was doing my best , as it were , say that everything was going swimmingly I 'd be getting a profit of thirty pounds from Neil twenty pounds from Alan because five will go on the tea and the milk and the box of Cornflakes and the toast er twenty , thirty , that 's fifty and twenty for Paul which is seventy . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | One of the most valuable lessons the Party had learnt during the initial twenty years of land reform was that socialism could only be achieved through stages . |
| 4 | Duclair is a little town on a loop of the Seine twenty kilometres outside Rouen towards Dieppe . |
| 5 | Webb was then growing at least 550 acres of rape-seed , and milling twenty gallons of oil a day . |
| 6 | She was perfectly happy to live like a student twenty years after art college , anything so long as she could paint . |
| 7 | This survey has covered an area twenty miles around Kendal , a well-established wool town since Medieval times with the appropriate motto , WOOL IS MY BREAD . |
| 8 | The jury twenty years in time and with the information you had from Superintendent , did you consider that instead of mounting a an operation like that , you should simply surround the flat or be with . |
| 9 | The rain eases as I head west ; I catch the last of a wide , bloody-looking sunset over Skye and the Kyles and the floodlights turning Eilean Donan 's grey stones green ; I make it to Strome in four hours twenty minutes from home , arriving just as the stars are coming out above in the purple spaces between the dark , heavy clouds . |
| 10 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 11 | However , in half-anticipation , I 'd calculated that after the one hour twenty flight from Porto we would still have a two hours forty endurance at 75 per cent cruise for the return flight to Porto in order to clear Customs back into Spain . |
| 12 | The exception looked to have won the points twenty minutes from time , when substitute Franz Carr delivered an early cross from the right and Kelly found the net with a diving header his fourth goal in Keegan 's three games . |
| 13 | Ah there is something about er an A Twenty handler for Windows . |
| 14 | For the first forty minutes they were much more composed than the league leaders and fully warranted the advantage they took in the 13th minute when David Kelly headed home Lee Clark 's cross after a winning midfield challenge by Ranson , a stable influence on his younger colleagues before falling victim to a calf injury twenty minutes from time . |