Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] twenty [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , after about twenty minutes ' wandering , her feet soaking wet inside her leaking boots , and her leg muscles aching from wading through the snow , she arrived at the car park outside the administration block , and found her car . |
| 2 | The occupational structure of the town can be deduced from the freemen 's registers , for between 1559 and 1603 an average of about twenty men per annum , almost 900 in all , were admitted to the freedom of the city . |
| 3 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 4 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 5 | In this work of at least twenty years ' duration Cregeen was encouraged and assisted by the Revd John Edward Harrison ( 1784–1858 ) , vicar of Jurby , whose hand has been detected in the preface and the opening paragraphs of the grammar . |