Example sentences of "twenty [noun pl] of [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At midday , Scott returned to the studio with twenty minutes of film footage , which would be edited to two minutes plus . |
| 2 | She had always prided herself on her calm , her coolness under pressure , yet twenty minutes of Luke Calder 's company and she was ready to act like a harpy ! |
| 3 | The students had not only training in teaching methods but in growing their own food , and we had twenty acres of rice land , an acre of garden , a Berkshire boar imported to improve the strength and size of the village pigs , and several pure-bred cocks to convert the village hens from laying two clutches of a dozen eggs each year to something like 150 bigger and better eggs . |
| 4 | He did everything within his power to assist his parishioners , including letting out twenty acres of glebe land at £2 an acre rather than the £8 normally charged for potato ground . |
| 5 | In the duty-free shop Patrick bought twenty packets of chewing gum , 400 King Size Kent cigarettes and a couple of litres of Glenlivet whisky . |
| 6 | He went over to the bed , lifted up the skirts and the separate bodice and draped them over his arm , pushing Meredith in front of the ornate Venetian gilt mirror complete with cherubs and vine leaves that occupied a good twenty feet of wall space . |
| 7 | You just put them into the formula , ad them up and then you do your Well let's say fifty eight fifty eight tonnes of H C L gives say a hundred and twenty tonnes of N A C L. |
| 8 | Okay let's let's say fifty eight tonnes of H C L gives a hundred and twenty tonnes of N A C L. |
| 9 | One of the most valuable lessons the Party had learnt during the initial twenty years of land reform was that socialism could only be achieved through stages . |
| 10 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 11 | Twenty years of police service had convinced him that Murphy 's law applied especially to police operations — no matter how meticulously they were planned , if it were remotely possible for something to fuck up , then it would ! |
| 12 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 13 | Twenty years of club tours to the Midlands , Kent , Herts and Essex recorded for the delectation of those who enjoyed them . |
| 14 | There 's enough explosive power in a really big display to make the twenty kegs of powder Guy Fawkes planted below the Houses of Parliament look like a damp roman candle . |
| 15 | And Focus Four is still entirely dedicated to composition models and practice — giving a total of twenty pages of composition work . |
| 16 | Twenty tons of bridge rolls into position across the River Leith , as L/Cpl . |
| 17 | The genius of this country imperiously demands a true taste , or no taste at all , in which case every farm within twenty miles of Langdale Pikes should have a different landlord . ’ |
| 18 | From the Village which was called Haverstock , through twenty miles of Warwickshire countryside and three of brick and brown Midlands , home to 14 Maxstone Villas . |
| 19 | The third nomadic show of this type at 24 , rue Petrelle in the 9th Arondissement until mid-month , uses the theme of abstraction and includes twenty photographs of Corinne Filippi and around fifty paintings by Catherine Marchadour , Annick David and Sylvie Lenormand-Bacot . |