Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 and twenty p things but ever so unusual .
2 ten and twenty p things , but ever so unusual like there might be an ice cream co , all fun things there all
3 There 's twenty twenty foot containers .
4 It 's ten lorries , twenty twenty foot containers .
5 So so it 's only No no it 's twenty twenty foot containers .
6 One was a small nursery class attached to a rural primary school and the other a nursery school with forty morning and twenty afternoon places .
7 Police have released a series of security photos of a man they believe has robbed more than twenty building societies .
8 Twenty biopsy specimens had previously been noted to show Barrett 's mucosa .
9 Teacher — If I put ten pound coins in my left trouser pocket and twenty pound coins in my right trouser pocket and fifty ten pence pieces in my back pocket , what would I end up with ?
10 He says we have had problems with forged twenty pound notes being passed at the ground and at garages in the town and at kiosks .
11 Those new twenty pound notes frighten me .
12 he said there 's ten , twenty pound notes in that cupboard , I , I
13 The first Plan identified twenty action points and progress has been made on them all .
14 There they witnessed the blood of sacrifices , human as well as animal , being scattered over ornaments including a ceremonial collar of fifteen to twenty coral necklaces .
15 Though the end of the year did not bring the hoped-for completion of the new buildings , all five shops and some twenty undergraduate rooms were in use , with a further twenty rooms ready for use in the next academic year .
16 During 1935–36 , the District arranged a total of 114 classes and courses , attended by 2,405 students , distributed among twenty WEA branches and thirty-one Student Groups .
17 Fylingdales parish returned only ten taxpayers even though its biggest settlement was the lively village of Robin Hood 's Bay , where Leland observed twenty fishing boats , each of which may be reckoned the livelihood of one family at the very least .
18 Eventually , you may select , from more than twenty honours courses , the ones you are most interested in for study to professional standard .
19 Over the last few years the number of public television groups within the PBAA has grown steadily , and extensive technical expertise has been developed as more than twenty test broadcasts across Australia have taken place .
20 Twenty chicken nuggets please .
21 Twenty chicken nuggets .
22 Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ .
23 Six hundred and twenty mining jobs are to go at the Bickershaw colliery in Lancashire and up to a hundred jobs will disappear at Granada Television , the makers of ’ Coronation Street ’ .
24 Twenty England fans were arrested before the ‘ friendly ’ match after they stoned cars , uprooted trees and broke windows in the northern Spanish resort .
25 The CNAA had already approved a dozen of Hatfield 's courses for honours degrees , and it was to have twenty degree courses by 1968 , establishing a pattern of honours degree , degree and sub-degree courses .
26 The ladies , who run about a third of the distance of the men 's race and carry twenty kilo sacks , can win similar prizes , a trophy , voucher , money and goblets instead of tankards .
27 Group A included twenty Law Lords appointed in the period 1876–1914 ; group B had twenty-one appointed between 1918 and 1948 ; group C had twenty-two appointed in 1948–69 .
28 Of the twenty Law Lords in group A , eleven had been MPs and three Parliamentary candidates ; of the twenty-one in group B , five had been MPs ; of the twenty-two in group C , four had been MPs and two Parliamentary candidates .
29 I had twenty village girls to teach , some of them with such a strong country accent that I could hardly communicate with them .
30 For every thousand down hairs there will only be about three hundred awn hairs and twenty guard hairs .
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