Example sentences of "twenty [noun pl] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personally I think whoever wrote the prospectus of Kidminster Green should be taken to court and charged with ‘ Gross Deceit of Parents and Pupils ’ because what actually takes place in the first twenty minutes of the school day bears absolutely no relation to what the prospectus claims should happen . |
| 2 | The fire brigade from town was on the scene within twenty minutes of the alarm and got it under control very quickly . |
| 3 | And in the last twenty minutes of the play they get a emotional kick in the stomach and it 's gut wrenching . |
| 4 | The traffic had thinned considerably by now , and most of the twenty minutes of the journey were taken up by Carson calling at a late-opening delicatessen on the way . |
| 5 | Video and audio cassettes of each session were available at the bookshop within twenty minutes of the finish , which is the time when people want to buy them . |
| 6 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 7 | But the stories told by these twenty prisoners of the camp from which they had come , stirred the most lethargic and bore-minded five year man . |
| 8 | Twenty copies of the form must be supplied along with between copies of supporting documentation . |
| 9 | The test booklet accompanying each coursebook contains four tests , each covering twenty units of the book concerned . |
| 10 | A large number of the part-timers have been reporting for duty for the entire twenty years of the Ulster Defence Regiment 's existence . |
| 11 | The second sentence of the issue of May 1988 refers to the first twenty years of the state : ‘ Threatening to ‘ push the Jews into the sea ’ , the Arab world reformulated the Nazi theory of Lebensraum in Mediterranean terms : there was no room in the region for a Jewish homeland . ’ |
| 12 | To celebrate twenty years of the RIBA Heinz Gallery , an exhibition ( the 94th ) was held in May of a selection of recent acquisitions . |
| 13 | Neither Maxwell nor Murdoch , so prominent in the last twenty years of the period , fits the simple pattern of a non-media organization moving in or a media one moving out . |
| 14 | Within a mere twenty years of the murder of Valentinian III the Romans had accustomed themselves to new political circumstances , and the barbarian rulers had taken over many of the duties which had formerly been exercised by provincial governors as well as military leaders . |
| 15 | The result is that the twenty features of the Patois competence scale can be grouped into five clusters . |
| 16 | The man got within twenty yards of the tape before a hail of bullets finally brought him down . |
| 17 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 18 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |