Example sentences of "[art] twenty [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 2 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 3 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 4 | Probably he could dodge the twenty coppers in ten cars that would be there in five minutes , and get clear away . |
| 5 | I 've seen this in shops when somebody has to add a twenty p to seventy-three p and out comes the calculator |
| 6 | A twenty inch for six pounds |