Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] first 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 2 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 3 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 4 | In the deDombal study , all strictures were benign , but in 92% of patients ( 48 of 52 ) they had occurred within the first 20 years of disease ; the lack of malignancy among their strictures was therefore attributable to the fact that most of their patients had disease of short duration . |
| 5 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 6 | Among the audience cited in the introduction are the ‘ environmentally concerned general public , but I fear that this growing band will be lost within the first 20 pages . |