Example sentences of "twenty [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Under twenty years of military rule , its output has grown to make Brazil the world 's largest agricultural exporter after the United States . |
| 32 | BI TVAS A reverie lasting more than twenty years on geological themes |
| 33 | BI TOSI A reverie lasting more than twenty years on cosmological themes |
| 34 | The church has had to decide whether it 's going to be on the side of the rich , the landowners , the establishment , who are a very small minority , or the poor , and generally speaking over the last fifteen or twenty years in Latin America it 's opted to be on the side of the poor and underprivileged , and theology has grown out of that terribly real situation , not something you learn from books , but something you do because you do n't have enough food in your belly , you ca n't provide for your family , the father 's been locked up , and that kind of theology , that kind of understanding of God , is really rather alien , I think , still to the kind of concerns most Europeans will have because they do n't face those very extreme conditions . |
| 35 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 36 | Twenty years in English prisons . |
| 37 | He got the paper that says says nothing about computers at twenty percent off whole stock Good grief ! |
| 38 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 39 | The number of weeks paid holiday that a worker will get is increasing rapidly so as today we have the norm of twenty days plus public bank holidays , giving more time if you like to engage in a package holiday abroad . |
| 40 | The Dutch Literary Fund , which administers scholarships for Dutch writers , is now considering twenty applications from Flemish authors . |
| 41 | To assist in the development of the scheme and to ensure that the right equipment is available , the RYA have over twenty fleets of junior boards located around the country for hire to clubs or groups wishing to introduce children to the sport . |
| 42 | ( Artist 's heart now sinks at thought of fifteen-hour day on account of two ideas leading to twenty permutations of two-line scene : ‘ But Richard — ’ ‘ Yes , I know , but the thing is — er — let me put this another way ’ ( so far he has n't put it anyway ) — ‘ Look — ’ ( He freezes mid-pace , cocks his head as though listening to an external sound — which indeed he is — draws a deep breath through his nose , rolls up his eyes , turns down the corners of his mouth , then , forgetting to expel air because a new thought has struck him , he gasps : ) ‘ I 'll tell you what , right ? |
| 43 | You knew a river stone had been used to kill Hatton and today you , who get twenty pounds a week and never have a penny to bless yourself with , spent a hundred and twenty quid on luxury equipment . |
| 44 | The drum , containing twenty gallons of hydrochloric acid and nitric acid , was taken from a locked cage at a factory on the Tower Road Trading estate at Berinsfield in Oxfordshire . |
| 45 | It could seat twenty passengers on rattan cane seats , who boarded by a short ladder over the sides ! |
| 46 | The other day he swam twenty laps for all-over muscle tone . |
| 47 | Twenty names for female genitalia : |
| 48 | Twenty patients with chronic pancreatitis and signs of biliary obstruction were treated by endoscopic placement of self expandable metal mesh stents , and followed up prospectively . |
| 49 | Er for high traffic forecast there would be the blue route would save and this is a thirty year thirty year assessment period which is a standard assessment period for major road schemes , twenty four fatalities under high traffic growth conditions , twenty fatalities under low traffic growth . |
| 50 | New doubt over twenty men in top security jail . |
| 51 | Twenty sections of recorded material are organized so that each section covers four units of the corresponding coursebook . |
| 52 | The weighting screen presents twenty options including on-line help , and saving of changes , while others allow sorting of data , changing of titles , reversing of the XY ranges and so on . |
| 53 | The tired horse faced a journey of at least twenty miles across heavy country so he kept her at a sedate trot . |
| 54 | The ride is a very pleasant one of about twenty miles through rural scenery and past well-maintained stations , with all the right traditional railway sounds such as ‘ chuff chuff chuff chuff ’ , which has disappeared from British Rail , and my favourite , ‘ clackety clack ’ , which is much reduced on BR due to the use of continuous welded rail on all busy lines , though the older sectioned rail survives on the lines around South Shropshire such as the Central Wales Line and the Cambrian . |
| 55 | And think of a life ahead sitting at a machine tapping out : ‘ Dear Sir , At your request I am forwarding twenty barrels of salted herring to your wife 's boudoir . |