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

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1 Five times three is fifteen times it by ten .
2 It was good , everybody had told me that erm , you know , you did n't get very much money when you left school , about ten shillings and to offer me fifteen shillings I thought was out of this world , so erm
3 After about fifteen minutes they arrived at their destination .
4 For over fifteen minutes she dutifully teased and titillated his slumbering pestle with sweet sucking and gentle licking until finally it answered her patient ministrations .
5 At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road .
6 For the fifteen minutes it 'll take , the computers will be completely in charge .
7 Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months .
8 ‘ David was out of the room for — I do n't know , ten or fifteen minutes I suppose . ’
9 I thought for thought for fifteen minutes I was er should I or should I not join the company .
10 Er we 'll start in fifteen minutes I think .
11 Not within fifteen minutes you 'll to but at the end of this session you will be able to process how to tell us the five main points five main benefits of a certain policy .
12 and er , she said oh yes please and I said fifteen minutes you know , she said , since I 've seen the Solicitor I feel a different person , I said you look different , you look ten years younger , she said everybody 's telling me I look ten years younger .
13 Fifteen minutes you 're allowed .
14 Now that 's , that 's a very interesting for a homeward bound commuter , you know , getting into the tube and you grab one of these papers and you read it and in fifteen minutes you get to Oakland fifty minutes , why turn on the news ?
15 After fifteen minutes he was crouched over tyre marks on the grass verge between the pavement and the road .
16 Within fifteen minutes he spotted it again in his rearview mirror , lurking behind a large French container lorry .
17 In fifteen minutes he 'll know we 've had coffee , too . ’
18 For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year .
19 fifteen minutes he said but you 've got twenty minutes here , I said well yeah Nick you 've got to fill the return book in as well I said and , he said what , I said well what day was it ?
20 It was ironical that the man she had just rebuked should be the only one who had shown interest in her as a woman during the fifteen months she had been on the station .
21 During the fifteen months he remained in South Africa after The Soldier 's Tale he created three more works and laid plans for others , some of which came to fruition years later .
22 Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party .
23 eventually they went bankrupt , Florrie is an of mine , she used to work there part time and she always enjoyed it , she 's been there say twenty years , she just came back from holiday and found the place is closed down and none of for the past er fifteen months he 'd been there , that past fifteen months none of their part time staff had their stamps put on their cards , so for their , for their pension
24 In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations .
25 I mean there is extra heating requirement in buildings which are cooled much faster when they are subject to high winds , but I think we can see these coming up in the next ten , fifteen years we will start to see these .
26 Fifteen years it lasted , Mr. Kopek .
27 And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing .
28 For over fifteen years I have been a regular reader of Pilot and keep the back numbers which offer an extremely useful information source on a wide range of flying matters .
29 Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ?
30 In fact , for fifteen years I was a village cricketer for Sheepscombe , deep into Cotswold country , beyond Stroud and Painswick .
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