Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along with Terri Hooley , they picked twenty acts for this year 's bash not only on the basis of demos they 'd listened to but also knowing the bands live capabilities intimately . |
| 2 | These exercises should be done at least twenty times on each leg . |
| 3 | If you reproduce this anecdote some ten or twenty times in different industries , you begin to explain the role of the Plan during this first period ’ ( Delors , 1978 ) . |
| 4 | I 've seen this in shops when somebody has to add a twenty p to seventy-three p and out comes the calculator |
| 5 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 6 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
| 7 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 8 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 9 | you 're only there for an hour or so you may have , I do n't know , twenty minutes of appropriate sociability which builds a rapport tremendously well |
| 10 | Once inside , we sat through a fascinating short on turtle-trapping in the Galapagos Islands or some such thing , and twenty minutes of mouth-watering trailers and commercials . |
| 11 | There were twenty minutes of extra time played , in which a kid called Martin came on — he had never played in first grade before — and scored the clinching try for Canberra . |
| 12 | Fifteen dollars bought callers twenty minutes of non-stop filth from a talking hostess of the caller 's choice . |
| 13 | Philosophers in dialogues may be persuaded by their opponents in twenty minutes of fast talk . |
| 14 | In twenty minutes of sublime running and handling they dropped the proverbial ‘ bar of soap ’ just once . |
| 15 | So if you would like to prepare yourself responses and ready for a preparation , not preparation , presentation erm it 's coming to half past nine give you twenty minutes on that preparation , so if we can be back ten to ten this group please . |
| 16 | So then Sunday night erm we was there for twenty minutes for ten minutes . |
| 17 | Average response speed tended to decrease over a period of twenty minutes in sleep-deprived subjects , unlike in rested controls . |
| 18 | Twenty micrograms of total RNA was used for first strand cDNA synthesis in a mixture containing 1 Taq polymerase buffer ( Promega ) , 1mM dNTPs , 40 Units RNasin ( Promega ) , 100 pmoles downstream primer and 200 Units Superscript ( Gibco-BRL ) . |
| 19 | Interviews , word-lists and reading passages were recorded with twenty speakers of both sexes and various ages from communities associated with both major ethnic groups in the city . |
| 20 | The twenty heads of British missions abroad in 1816 , when the effects of the country 's long political isolation during the Napoleonic wars were still being felt , had increased to thirty-seven by 1860 ( mainly because of the emergence of new independent states in Latin America ) ; but the changes of the 1860s swept away many of the smaller legations in Germany and Italy , and the establishment of diplomatic representatives in China , Japan and one or two other non-European countries in the second half of the century did not compensate for these losses . |
| 21 | Twenty mls of whole blood was also collected into empty vacutainers before and at the end of the one month trial period for analysis of serum vitamins , as an assessment of compliance to the supplementation . |
| 22 | Twenty subjects with normal colonoscopy and histologically normal colonic mucosa were included as a control group . |
| 23 | I must have moved , what … ? twenty feet under that filth . |
| 24 | Apart from the track itself the forest had been partially felled for about twenty feet on either side so that except where the road wound sharply it was possible to see a long way ahead . |
| 25 | Perhaps because I was unaware of the enormity of the task I had been set , I went at it with tremendous dash and verve , and together with my two colleagues , nominated from other parts of the company , visited no less than twenty companies in eight countries in three weeks . |
| 26 | With two Flights , SMR operated up to twenty Lancasters at one point . |
| 27 | So it 's costing us approximately twenty pence for each bottle and that 's very high , that 's a very high quality bottle . |
| 28 | He did n't boil it , for fear the bleach might evaporate ; after the mixture was warm he added twenty bottles of Yugoslav Riesling , two bottles of Guinness and a pound and a half of oranges cut into segments . |
| 29 | Computer-based courseware has been in action for over twenty years with considerable effect although the quality of materials has been patchy . |
| 30 | Well , how about this for a scenario : twenty years of solid touring and recording for major names ; a niche in the elite ‘ who 's who ’ of session guitarists on both sides of the Atlantic ; featured on television three times a week backing major artists live on a very hip chat show ; going straight into production for another live prime-time show on Saturday nights ; and work with Tom Jones , Al Jarreau , Stevie Wonder , Mica Paris , Cindi Lauper , Bob Geldof and Curtis Stigers , to name but a few . |