Example sentences of "[conj] twenty [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you reproduce this anecdote some ten or twenty times in different industries , you begin to explain the role of the Plan during this first period ’ ( Delors , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 3 | Behind you are more than twenty years of habit-forming obedience to the house rules — and why not ? |
| 4 | This event led to a after more than twenty years of intermittent war . |
| 5 | BI TVAS A reverie lasting more than twenty years on geological themes |
| 6 | BI TOSI A reverie lasting more than twenty years on cosmological themes |
| 7 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 8 | You knew a river stone had been used to kill Hatton and today you , who get twenty pounds a week and never have a penny to bless yourself with , spent a hundred and twenty quid on luxury equipment . |