Example sentences of "[adv] twenty [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so twenty times a hundred |
| 2 | One down , one mile on the up , double junction below twenty mile an hour speed limit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then you came into this library to look at the books , spending perhaps twenty minutes here . |
| 5 | Perhaps ten , perhaps fifteen , perhaps twenty minutes passed . |
| 6 | I will listen to the band playing American dance music for perhaps twenty minutes , then I will walk back to the Hotel Europe . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most funding agencies are , understandably , unwilling to take on a commitment to pay for research over a period of perhaps twenty years or more . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 14 | He had an audience : perhaps twenty people had gathered round the site , idly expectant , smoking and calling out . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | After a quick tidy-up they took the next train back to the Gare de Lyon where Monique had only twenty minutes to wait . |
| 20 | It is true , however , that 90 per cent of this fluid can be retrieved in only twenty minutes while we are lying horizontally . |
| 21 | Easily Accessible : The centre of London with myriad attractions is only twenty minutes away . |
| 22 | I got back to work , by which I mean that I got my papers and notes out , and then sat looking at them for what seemed like a dreary lifetime , and was really probably only twenty minutes . |
| 23 | Recommended by live letters of the Daily Mirror , comfortable family run guest house , away from the hustle of the town centre yet only twenty minutes walk to the conference centre , and two minutes walk to the seafront , situated in old worldy Kemptown , you will be welcomed by Hilda and Doug Beard , and be served a full English breakfast , tea making facilities are in all rooms also colour TV , keys are provided with access at all times , there is also free street parking . |
| 24 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 25 | With only twenty minutes to go before kick-off we crawled into the Willowmead Stadium , our confidence uncomfortably perched on the gear stick . |
| 26 | No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile . |
| 27 | The Pizza Eater was only twenty minutes walk away from the flat . |
| 28 | I had left it only twenty minutes earlier . |
| 29 | Only twenty minutes to go then Ann . |
| 30 | First , the thickness of the deposit steadily diminishes ; one which is ten metres thick close to the vent may be only twenty centimetres or so thick at twenty kilometres ' distance . |