Example sentences of "twenty [noun pl] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Average response speed tended to decrease over a period of twenty minutes in sleep-deprived subjects , unlike in rested controls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Twenty years in English prisons . |
| 6 | New doubt over twenty men in top security jail . |