Example sentences of "twelve [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 And the sprouts are on , twelve minutes you say
2 I 'm there twelve hours I I .
3 By day for twelve hours he sailed across the sky with gods in his boat , piloted by his vizier Thoth , the moon , and accompanies by his daughter , Maat , the symbol of his world order .
4 Erm in twelve hours it will be half way round , so the position will be reversed .
5 if you go out on a charter it 's twelve hours you know , if you go for
6 I think we had twelve or thirteen cars , so that was twelve shifts we could cover , we had three gates to cover cover , so and forty men , and just shared them out and that was all computerized , printed out , everyone had a copy , and on the whole it worked very very well .
7 We 're already seeing the strains on Eur European economic mo er union and E R M , with the twelve nations we have , I do n't think it 'll get any better or worse with the other four coming in .
8 Over the next twelve months we expect a further increase in those needing our Home Care service to enable them to live and die at home .
9 Over the next twelve months we will be providing support to a growing number of new and existing local programmes , identified as a result of an extensive survey we have just completed .
10 And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it .
11 By about eight months of age most infants are capable of retrieving completely hidden objects ; but between eight and twelve months they show another intriguing pattern of errors .
12 Within twelve months they had bought an old but clean and respectable grocery van to take around the roads of the South London suburbs .
13 You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income .
14 But during this twelve months you were still actually working ?
15 Tractors are used for the twelve months you see but not a combine .
16 have the er figures in front of you of our progress during the last twelve months you will no doubt see that we are in a very nice financial position er only a pound and a penny off that magic thousand pound in in the club now .
17 During that twelve months you get extra supervision and at the during that period the chief constable is entitled to dispose of your service at a week 's notice , but after you get over the probationary period only the Watch Committee could dispose of your services , the onus was on the Watch Committee .
18 Take that a step further , after the end of twelve months you then lose this fifteen thousand
19 So you , you 'd manage on fifteen thousand but then after the twelve months you 'd most probably want to go up to say seventy five percent of your earnings ?
20 But then also you 've got , you , if you take it over say , twelve months you 've got like a
21 At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage .
22 Within twelve months it had exceeded expectations and become a £40million growth product .
23 However , Microsoft says its projected sales of one million copies of NT the first twelve months it 's out are not highly dependent on Pentium .
24 Over the past twelve months it has been my great privilege to become more closely involved with those with disabilities , I have seen the enormous efforts being made to encourage participation at a very high competitive level as well as tremendous strides being made at many clubs to bring disabled people into sailing at all levels .
25 It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort .
26 I have you and all at your magazine to thank for your support , but listening to the troubles of fishkeepers on the telephone and when meeting them over the last twelve months I am left in no doubt that there is a vast array of undetectable contaminants in our tapwater , apart from just chlorine , which consistently depress fish condition and render them less able to resist stress and infection .
27 But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop .
28 The opportunity to serve you and to meet you over the next twelve months I look forward to enormously and while I 'm not conceited enough to think that I can move mountains in the year ahead , or naive enough to think that I can please everybody fully , fellow Tablers I promise you I will not let you down .
29 Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty .
30 Whether it 's gon na take two years or twelve months I do n't know .
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