Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first 20 [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crusaders were pinned back in their own half for the first 20 minutes as the visiting pack was dominant . |
| 2 | Wales were convinced that they were one up on Scotland in having already experienced Joel Dume in their England match , while the Sassenachs ' top brass reckoned Scotland would be at a definite disadvantage for the first 20 minutes . |
| 3 | We were famous for bombarding teams for the first 20 mins of games … beating them into submission … p[laying at a pace . |
| 4 | We would completely pin back a side for the first 20 mins , and invariably crack them . |
| 5 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 6 | After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps . |
| 7 | The imaginary war , at least for the first 20 years after the war , reproduced the solutions of the second world war . |
| 8 | Antonio Rowe , in the Halesowen goal , distinguished himself with important saves , particularly during the first 20 minutes , when City were well in control . |
| 9 | If Brian Lara 's timing and placement helped to give the West Indies ' innings its early momentum — 81 came off the first 20 overs — Simmons used his massive strength to devastating effect as 102 were plundered off the next 15 overs . |
| 10 | The season began in spectacular fashion when , within the first 20 minutes after the helicopter landed , Keizo Yanai , of the Institute of Polar Programs in Tokyo , discovered two stony meteorites lying a few hundred yards away . |
| 11 | Among the audience cited in the introduction are the ‘ environmentally concerned general public , but I fear that this growing band will be lost within the first 20 pages . |
| 12 | In the deDombal study , all strictures were benign , but in 92% of patients ( 48 of 52 ) they had occurred within the first 20 years of disease ; the lack of malignancy among their strictures was therefore attributable to the fact that most of their patients had disease of short duration . |
| 13 | In the first 20 minutes Celtic had five scoring efforts , one of them scrambled home by Creaney but rightly given offside , while St Johnstone failed even to reach Celtic 's penalty area . |
| 14 | CAPTAIN Will Carling last night told England to sing up and play up in the first 20 minutes or risk Naas Botha wrecking their hopes of winning today 's historic international at Twickenham . |
| 15 | The Diadora League minnows could have been three up in the first 20 minutes . |
| 16 | In the first 20 minutes , Ipswich were all over their visitors and were camped permanently in their half . |
| 17 | Mercer , who picked up the injury in the first 20 minutes , was substituted by Andy Goodway but bravely returned in the second half wearing a protective head guard . |
| 18 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 19 | Second-placed Durham never recovered from a three goal blast in the first 20 minutes at Ryhope , going down 4–2 . |
| 20 | Celtic had three players booked in the first 20 minutes to illustrate just how fired up they were . |
| 21 | In the case where the description is very long , it is recommended that there should be a brief summary of the function of the module in the first 20 lines . |
| 22 | In the first 20 days of May this year , almost four times as many Vietnamese arrived as in all of May 1990 . |
| 23 | In the first 20 days of December , car sales were 30% higher than over the same period in 1991 . |
| 24 | In the first 20 years of the Survey 's activities in Scotland , practically all of the central and southern parts of the country had been surveyed on the 6-inch scale and manuscript copies of the field maps made for public reference . |
| 25 | The rate of progress made in the first 20 years was only achieved by the geologists being in the field most of the year . |
| 26 | The album is preceded by the single ‘ Rain ’ , with a demonic American preacher , a Gambian thunderstorm and the bells of Oxford 's Merton college all segued in the first 20 seconds . |
| 27 | We have 20 copies to give away to the first 20 readers whose names are pulled out of the bag on July 9 1992 , send your name and address on an adhesive label to Business Executive Diaries Ltd , Cornerways , Brenchley Road , Brenchley , Tonbridge , Kent TN12 7PB . |