Example sentences of "twenty [noun pl] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few weeks later Masters of Notts went into voluntary liquidation , paying twenty shillings in the pound as Father had said they would . |
| 2 | and twenty minutes in the morning , but we work right through , skip lunch , finish at one o'clock then |
| 3 | At one time there were twenty craftsmen in the workshops — now there are just three . |
| 4 | One of West Indies ' other heroes of the summer , and much of the decade , was wicket-keeper Jeffrey Dujon , with over 300 runs and twenty dismissals in the rubber . |
| 5 | There are nearly twenty co-ops in the city now , all of them involving the tenants in deep and detailed commitment both to the planning and to each other . |
| 6 | I was too busy holding on to the edge of my chair and waiting for him to rise twenty feet in the air . |
| 7 | Only once it had looked real : when we flew back one night from a blazing Hamm at twenty feet in the moonlight . |
| 8 | This is the subject of the largest stretch of commentary on the events of the tale by the narrator , some twenty lines in the verse paragraph in lines 3215 – 55 . |
| 9 | Gray was also one of the twenty nurserymen in the Society of Gardeners led by Philip Miller [ q.v. ] , which met frequently in an attempt to standardize the names of the plants they were growing . |
| 10 | Henley , while maintaining its independence , has been associated with Brunel for over twenty years in the development and administration of post graduate management degrees . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 12 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |
| 13 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 14 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 16 | Twenty years in the House still had n't dampened his extraordinary enthusiasm for the job and his not unappealing surprise that he should actually be there . |
| 17 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 18 | ‘ Police , ’ one cop said , and he felt ridiculous , in full uniform , his truncheon out , but , twenty years in the job , he had never , in all his time , seen a house like this before . |
| 19 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 20 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 21 | Programme members are able to communicate with tutors and administrators using the network of over two hundred and twenty PCs in the College . |
| 22 | There were twenty days in the month , each being regarded as divine and of distinctive omen . |
| 23 | So when I parked my car I said to them I forgot how much it was in there , twenty pounds in the hotel as you 're not a guest they give them in reception . |
| 24 | A large number of churches was necessary to form the topographical power points of the astrological figure ( there are traditionally twenty points in the representation ) . |
| 25 | There has been an important development in the hunt for a rapist suspected of attacking more than twenty women in the North-West . |
| 26 | Quiet country parsons , who had applied for twenty shares in the hope of being allotted one , now had to buy all twenty , at fifty pounds apiece , or go to debtor 's jail — all for a railway that the judge , barrister , company , and jailer knew would never exist . |