Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 2 | It would be no good putting together menu and arranging to do two thousand covers if you 've got spacing for twenty persons , would it ? |
| 3 | Why , why twenty four hours , what 's happening in twenty four hours , Stacey . |
| 4 | Continue exercise programme , increasing swimming to twenty lengths , walking to twenty minutes . |
| 5 | A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study . |
| 6 | That 's no problem , so you 're looking for ten thousand pounds worth of life cover for yourself and then you 're looking for twenty eight to thirty thousand for your daughter projected forward |
| 7 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 8 | Despite the massive exodus from the major cities in the 1970s , in 1981 more than three-fifths ( 62.6 per cent ) of Britain 's 54.3 million people were still living in twenty ‘ metropolitan regions ’ which occupy little more than one-fifth of the country 's land area . |
| 9 | Messages are flying through the ether , coming from every side , like we were listening to twenty stations at once . |
| 10 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 11 | Er , we 've been going for twenty six years er , and we now manage around about three thousand properties and are building er and selling around about seven hundred properties a year for , for rent and low cost home ownership . |
| 12 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 13 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
| 14 | Twenty pounds for it at twenty pounds at twenty pounds thank you , twenty is offered and selling for twenty pounds only , twenty five for you sir , thank you , twenty five , thirty thirty five thirty five to my left and selling for thirty five pounds yours sir , thank you , thirty five pounds for number eight four five , thank you very much . |
| 15 | Brando would keep everyone waiting for twenty minutes . |
| 16 | And if you 're still going after twenty minutes or so , we 'll stop you . |
| 17 | And I again do n't understand these figures because I take from table two and I see the A sixty one er reading going from twenty four thousand to nineteen thousand on the opening of the bypass . |
| 18 | They 're going in twenty eight pounds the two . |
| 19 | Yeah yeah , we could have had it going in twenty minutes . |
| 20 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 21 | Patrick smiled ruefully ; he was nineteen going on twenty — what right had he to assign motives to a woman ? |
| 22 | You 'll be sixteen going on twenty ! |
| 23 | everything were going to twenty three you see |
| 24 | ( 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 ? |
| 25 | Notts County against Pisa , two one at half time , we 'll be bringing you er commentary in the second half , sharing the commentary with the match at between Shrewsbury Town and Blackburn Rovers , it 's a third round replay in the Coca Cola Cup , Blackburn went ahead on six minutes through Mike , equalizing on twenty and a short while ago Shrewsbury taking the lead , a penalty put away with some aplomb by , they lead two one . |
| 26 | we sat there waiting till twenty five before we went out , he did n't turn up . |
| 27 | About this time a detailed correspondence , lasting for twenty years , started between Sloane and Ray . |
| 28 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 29 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 30 | Combined effects of these initiatives has resulted in operating profits rising to twenty seven point four million compared with the pro forma level of nineteen point four million last year , which is an increase of forty one per cent . |