Example sentences of "twenty [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Twenty eight year old Sean from Arnold has appeared before Nottingham magistrates charged with murder , and has been remanded in custody . |
| 3 | Twenty eight year old Susan Magill has been trying a homoeopathic approach to help her improve her diet and lose weight . |
| 4 | The rapist was already lying in wait for the twenty eight year old woman when she arrived home last night . |
| 5 | A twenty eight year old woman who claims an overdose of radiation left her paralysed is suing a health authority for damages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Among them were thirty three year old Bill Raeper , and twenty eight year old Martin Hoftun , both writers from Oxford . |
| 9 | A Police custody vehicle had parked by the side of the court with twenty eight year old Tyrone Evans inside . |
| 10 | Twenty eight year old Andrew Hayton approached at around sixty miles an hour on his Yamaha motorbike but did not slow down . |
| 11 | Richard Hassan is the longest serving member , with twenty eight years to his credit . |
| 12 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |
| 13 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 14 | society has somewhat changed in twenty five twenty eight years |
| 15 | This is twenty eight years ago ! |
| 16 | Er , yes , yes this was like nineteen twenty eight years old |
| 17 | twenty eight years ago now |
| 18 | Twenty eight years of age , Tommy , made just a handful of appearances for Sunderland before coming here to Shrewsbury Town and he 's made important contributions at both ends tonight , because his could be the goal that takes Shrewsbury past Blackburn and to a lucrative tie against Tottenham . |
| 19 | I ai n't got no best pans , I 've had my pa most of my pans , they 've all near enough come from either Embassy cigarette coupons or Number Six coupons , and I 've still got them and I 've had some of them twenty bloody years , all them pans . |
| 20 | There had been no sound in those days of course , twenty odd years ago now . |
| 21 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 22 | Was n't it that the Australians who , who about twenty odd years ago had Britain test all of their erm nuclear weapons |
| 23 | My tutor was saying to me that when he did his degree twenty odd years ago , he knew everything there was to know about chemistry , but because it 's growing , because it 's new , you 've always got to keep up with it , whereas history does n't change , does it , apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ; with chemistry it 's constantly changing , you 've always got something new to learn , you never stop really . |
| 24 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 25 | After twenty odd years of being er a paid employee , albeit a very probably because it 's I have been a very well paid employee . |
| 26 | ’ What about upsetting the man who has spent twenty odd years looking after that churchyard ? ’ |
| 27 | There a bit , years , twenty odd years ago since the garage was ever used so |
| 28 | I thought that , that must of been twenty odd years since dad died then . |
| 29 | I 've known her for twenty odd years ! |
| 30 | I have , I 've been asked a lot in the last twenty odd years and it 's only just recently that I 've seriously considered it , which is why I 've made this new album , Midnight Postcards . |