Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We reach the port twenty minutes before the ferry is set to sail . |
| 2 | Her car was having one of its bad days , and it was some twenty minutes before the engine fired successfully . |
| 3 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 4 | He died without remorse , writing his last ‘ Sieg Heil ! ’ not twenty minutes before the hangman entered the condemned cell . |
| 5 | The white Mercedes bus that had waited at the end of the line for the red-shirted storm-troopers left twenty minutes after the attack started . |
| 6 | I tumbled out of bed , threw on my tracksuit and joined the others shivering outside on the gravel ; the Corporal kept us waiting about twenty minutes until the Sergeant arrived . |
| 7 | In Huxley 's own book The Crayfish ( 1879 ) , written twenty years after the Origin had appeared , the development of crayfishes is a very unimportant part of the work , forming a confessedly hypothetical section at the end . |
| 8 | Visually Melton remains a railway centre even more than twenty years after the railway went . |
| 9 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 10 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 11 | ( Usually , once the thirty second board has gone up , there is around fifteen to twenty seconds before the start gate actually drops ) . |
| 12 | Ten or twenty heart-beats before the poison ices your heart and stops your breath . ’ |