Example sentences of "[adv] twenty [noun] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a nylon jersey house-gown of peacock pattern and iridescent colouring , which clung like a silk glove , she could not possibly be anyone but Mrs Paviour , that same Lesley who walked when the fit took her , last thing at night , and had been home twenty minutes when Charlotte rang the door-bell . |
| 2 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |
| 3 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 4 | I 'll be in the front ter show 'im the way an' it should take us about twenty minutes ter Wappin' . |
| 5 | About twenty years ago department stores in Tokyo started to make parts of their buildings into exhibition spaces and called them museums . |
| 6 | Even twenty years later Tim Page could say ‘ All war is glorious ’ . |