Example sentences of "be [v-ing] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it , according to what I read before , they say they staple the stomach down to the size of er , of a tea spoon , so presumably she , her stomach must only receive , she must of been eating twenty four hours a day , you know , to keep they , she did n't lose any weight , the other girl did , but er |
| 2 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 3 | said , said that at the moment we 're paying twenty per cent , twenty per cent er Poll Tax erm we 're on about thirty five pound a week , the full grant , that 's how much we get you know if you level it out you know |
| 4 | so we 're doing twenty per cent . |
| 5 | If you 're doing twenty in a forty and a copper comes along and pulls both of you , it 's gon na be you that gets fucking done , not him ! |
| 6 | So that in total you 're saying twenty nine thousand dwellings , one way or another are committed before nineteen ninety six . |
| 7 | ‘ His fees are steep enough to start with and two days out of ten means we 're losing twenty per cent of our course . ’ |
| 8 | If they send out a document that weighs a kilo for tapes and they sent that one , they 're losing twenty |
| 9 | I think we 're taking twenty six fives out . |
| 10 | And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir . |
| 11 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 12 | Although there is apparently little difference in the proportions of male and female carers who are providing twenty hours or more help and support each week , clear gender differences do emerge as care-giving becomes more intensive . |
| 13 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 14 | I said the same I ca n't persuade our chaps on the Yorkshire Moors that they are getting twenty six pound a week , when they 're not , you see ? |
| 15 | if Central South had been running twenty five years ago our sport would have been dominated by the name of one man … jockey Terry Biddlecombe one of Gloucestershire 's most famous and favourite of sporting sons … |
| 16 | Or down the scale again , the husband could be paying twenty five percent and the wife twenty percent , and they could switch investments between the two . |
| 17 | Now , another story that is er an interesting one this morning , and I 'd like to hear your view on , families with two television sets could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 18 | Families with more than one telly , could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence . |
| 19 | Families with two tellies could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licences , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 20 | I 'm going twenty past . |
| 21 | Of course , I 'm getting twenty five quid from there . |
| 22 | Well I mean you can see from the stats , the figures and routes they fly that we get ten per cent when we should be getting twenty |
| 23 | The next phase will be er this phase , site three er , which we will be providing twenty one er , flats to rent as your nominees er three units for the special needs and for those like I told you , it 's about twenty four rented to nominees we 've had the funding for that pre-allocated by the housing corporation so they are er , committed to , to funding that . |
| 24 | I wo n't be spending twenty five pounds |
| 25 | At the same time , the gallery 's other space at Knokke will be showing twenty of his small-scale drawings : pastels on map paper and india ink on musical scores . |
| 26 | You 'll be working twenty four hours a day for those six weeks as it is . |
| 27 | Now , when I started to ba er buy my house , we are paying , we were paying twenty seven pound a month for the upkeep of the building , it 's now went up to thirty four pound twenty two pence a month . |
| 28 | and if we divvied up the exam fee on a fifty per cent basis it would mean that B A I E were getting twenty quid for doing nothing but probably more twenty quids than they would get normally because students who would be attracted in through Napier would be paying their forty quid as well |
| 29 | Oh were making twenty five bob a day then . |
| 30 | No , Hayden says if we go to Comet cos he said , cos I said I bought my video at Comet and they were offering twenty five per cent off , twenty five per cent off off the at Comet so that 's about the third of the place . |