Example sentences of "[prep] twenty [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 2 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 3 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 4 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 5 | In England and Wales the average proportion of each marriage cohort still without children after twenty years of marriage ( all ages at marriage together ) is between 10 and 15 per cent ( e.g. 1951 13 per cent , 1956 10 per cent ) . |
| 6 | After twenty months of fighting , where twenty times I should have died [ Raymond Jubert admitted ] I have not yet seen war as I imagined it . |
| 7 | He hurried ahead , climbed the steps and pushed past twenty pairs of knees . |
| 8 | And Focus Four is still entirely dedicated to composition models and practice — giving a total of twenty pages of composition work . |
| 9 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 10 | ample exterior , the product of twenty years of police work . |
| 11 | No major country house has faced a greater catalogue of danger and decay than Barlaston , with the combined problems of twenty years of rain cascading through the roof and repeated bouts of coal mining subsidence . |
| 12 | Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ . |
| 13 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 14 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 15 | Within twenty minutes of arrival , we had both caught the prescribed limit ; strange , stump-tailed rainbow trout that threw themselves instantly at whatever fly we offered . |
| 16 | The genius of this country imperiously demands a true taste , or no taste at all , in which case every farm within twenty miles of Langdale Pikes should have a different landlord . ’ |
| 17 | It was a newish course , just south of Birmingham and within twenty miles of Crystal 's head office . |
| 18 | They had suffered from twenty cases of arson in the last two months of 1921 , which he ascribed to White supporters of Kolchak . |
| 19 | In twenty years of knitting , I 've found no reason to discard this principle . |
| 20 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 22 | What do you consider were the gallery 's greatest successes in twenty years of business ? |
| 23 | In twenty acres of gardens , the Sheraton lies on Poipou 's most beautiful beach around sparkling lagoons . |
| 24 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 25 | He also had a singing part — he had to sing ‘ Do n't Blame Me ’ — which was eventually left on the cutting room floor , along with about twenty minutes of Nicholson 's spoken dialogue . |
| 26 | From the Village which was called Haverstock , through twenty miles of Warwickshire countryside and three of brick and brown Midlands , home to 14 Maxstone Villas . |
| 27 | In spite of the touches of mystification he employed in many autobiographical references scattered through twenty years of publishing , it is possible to detect the complicated temperament he had inherited . |
| 28 | I doubted they could afford much more today , but the small dirty children seemed happy enough on their thirty by twenty yards of straw . |