Example sentences of "twenty [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty eight-year-old Laura , a married schoolteacher , had a six-month relationship with a former boyfriend shortly after her mother died . |
| 2 | Twenty flaming arrows hit the juggernaut . |
| 3 | Twenty pleasant minutes retraced the morning 's steps and I stood beside the Land Rover waving goodbye and listening to the blue van 's familiar toots as it continued north . |
| 4 | JEWKES : I could tell twenty pleasant stories but my lady is too nice to hear them . |
| 5 | He quickly realised a ten year old in swimming trunks can run a good deal faster than a twenty eight year old clad in hip high waders with a bloody great salmon on his back . |
| 6 | Twenty eight year old Sean from Arnold has appeared before Nottingham magistrates charged with murder , and has been remanded in custody . |
| 7 | Twenty eight year old Susan Magill has been trying a homoeopathic approach to help her improve her diet and lose weight . |
| 8 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 9 | A twenty eight year old woman who claims an overdose of radiation left her paralysed is suing a health authority for damages . |
| 10 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , says everything possible is being done for a twenty eight year old man who 's spent thirteen months in an Indian jail . |
| 11 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 12 | Among them were thirty three year old Bill Raeper , and twenty eight year old Martin Hoftun , both writers from Oxford . |
| 13 | A Police custody vehicle had parked by the side of the court with twenty eight year old Tyrone Evans inside . |
| 14 | Twenty eight year old Andrew Hayton approached at around sixty miles an hour on his Yamaha motorbike but did not slow down . |
| 15 | A hundred and twenty eight pages . |
| 16 | Home beat police constable Patrick Dunn did n't have to deal with the reported disturbance last night , at twenty eight Cato Road Clapham , but knowing the area , he said he 'd go , on his bicycle as ever . |
| 17 | and there be twenty eight shillings a week , that 's all I allowed him and because that was even better than labour money and so the day , they , I had to keep that they stopped all me labour , so cos I had the money you see . |
| 18 | We have twenty eight games in front of us here . |
| 19 | We have twenty eight games in front of us here . |
| 20 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 21 | To instruct them that their caravan must be taken off within twenty eight working days . |
| 22 | And the caravan must be taken off within twenty eight working days . |
| 23 | If the developer has notified the planning authority in advance then the twenty eight day period is extended to four months . |
| 24 | But if you 've made a twenty eight day clause then yes it 'll go to the children a hundred sixty thousand pounds and there 'd be tax payable on ten thousand pounds . |
| 25 | If you 've got a will however , the elder dies first which is why we have these twenty eight day clauses , you know the man is sixty , the wife is fifty five and they 're both killed together . |
| 26 | Well we dredged it , alongside of Cliff Quay , that was twenty eight feet of water at low tide , that was that 's what they guarantee , apart from what they call and then two blasts off , two ships was laying that 'd be at twenty eight feet , then that would rise ten feet below what they call , cos all in metres now . |
| 27 | Well we dredged it , alongside of Cliff Quay , that was twenty eight feet of water at low tide , that was that 's what they guarantee , apart from what they call and then two blasts off , two ships was laying that 'd be at twenty eight feet , then that would rise ten feet below what they call , cos all in metres now . |
| 28 | The thousands of women ( and handful of men ) who attended had the choice between : eleven feature films , fifteen long documentaries and twenty eight shorts . |
| 29 | we 've got a hundred grams divided by twenty eight pennies , the answer is whatever it comes to grams per divided by pennies , grams per penny , so that 's a good check that you 've got it the right way up , before you go and calculate it you just have a little look , what have I got here ? |
| 30 | That is I can see clearly now , at twenty eight minutes to four o'clock , midweek , on a muggy Wednesday afternoon on Trent F M , and your weather for the rest of today , the fourteenth of July . |