Example sentences of "[adv] twenty [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I look at this quiz thing called Bamboozle and the quiz master 's called Bamber Boozler , which I think 's a bit sad but they sa , you send in , you 're supposed to send in twenty questions and they put them on . |
| 2 | She laid down twenty pounds , and fixed on him girlish , friendly eyes . |
| 3 | The hundred shares index closed down twenty point three at twenty-eight , eighteen exactly . |
| 4 | The hundred shares index closed down twenty point two , at twenty-five , thirty-eight point two . |
| 5 | The hundred shares index closed down twenty point four at three thousand and thirty eight point six |
| 6 | The hundred shares index closed down twenty point two at twenty-six , o — one exactly . |
| 7 | The hundred shares index closed down twenty point two at twenty-six , o — one exactly . |
| 8 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 9 | Most of the ancient city walls were pulled down twenty years ago and the gate now stands alone on a traffic island like a great beached whale washed up on the edge of the city . |
| 10 | The hundred shares index closed down twenty points at twenty-four , seventy-seven point nine . |
| 11 | Okay , so twenty times a hundred |
| 12 | One down , one mile on the up , double junction below twenty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 13 | I do n't see erm , a government of any complexion being likely to insist er , on our going down er , below twenty percent er , in television . |
| 14 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 15 | Perhaps ten , perhaps fifteen , perhaps twenty minutes passed . |
| 16 | I will listen to the band playing American dance music for perhaps twenty minutes , then I will walk back to the Hotel Europe . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps twenty times a week each one has to confront a dead body ; they have to meet , talk with and help relatives and friends cope with the practical arrangements posed by the death . |
| 18 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 19 | Until perhaps twenty years ago , it would have been pointless to speak of a radical tradition in British adult education in isolation from the organised labour movement . |
| 20 | you just walk in and like , it was there and I would have said it was old when we arrived , and we 've been there nineteen perhaps twenty years . |
| 21 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 22 | erm Indeed one of the sad things perhaps at the lowest level is how many jobs are requiring mathematical skills that , that perhaps twenty years ago were n't assumed . |
| 23 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 24 | He had an audience : perhaps twenty people had gathered round the site , idly expectant , smoking and calling out . |
| 25 | It was another hot windless day , and they were living in a bowl of milky haze and smog , so that the blue only began perhaps twenty degrees above the horizon . |
| 26 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 27 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 28 | Ferkhan also owned land near the village and complained that lack of electricity meant that he could not pump water to his field and , as a result , he had grown only twenty tons of melons compared to eighty before the war … |
| 29 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 30 | It is true , however , that 90 per cent of this fluid can be retrieved in only twenty minutes while we are lying horizontally . |