How To Use Twenty In A Sentence
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Twenty microliters of each antibody was added to 100 L of blood, and the mixture was incubated at room temperature for 15 minutes.
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Receiving the round initial in the third quarter, the Rams would put together the 10-play, 61-yard expostulate immoderate 5 mins as great as finishing it off with the 6-yard TD pass from Stefkovich to So, TE, Joe Migliarese (Blue Bell, Pa.) to tighten the measure to twenty-nine twenty-eight TU.
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Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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The fish killed included bass, roach, eels and fluke when the temperature soared to twenty six degrees Centigrade.
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They tell me that his father was made what they call a baronet because he set a broken arm for one of those twenty royal dukes that England has to pay for.
The Fixed Period
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It's probably been twenty years or more since I read L' Engle's ‘Time trilogy’ about the Murry family, and in that time L' Engle has written another book in the series, making it a tetralogy.
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The list also includes Her Majesty The Queen, eight more Dukes, five Marquesses, thirteen Earls, five Viscounts, twenty-three Lords, seven Baronets, fifty-four Knights, two Dames and six Ladies.
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Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy.
The Titan
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A number of the predominately male workforce have twenty-four years service with the company.
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And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles 18.
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After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
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Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.
Billy Budd
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Indeed, "My mother said I could be no lad, till I was twentye, '* is a passage I notice in my Milton with a view to this; which see; and therein also of a shep - herdess" taking the tale.
The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ...
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The trial will resume on August the twenty-second.
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What we come twenty thousand miles to get is worth saving, sir.
Moby Dick
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At twenty thousand meters, with the pods still traveling at a high velocity, parachutes billowed out from the same boxes that had contained the glider wings.
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We catered for forty but only twenty came.
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She got married when she was twenty and had two children but was increasingly unhappy about the political situation in Southern Rhodesia, particularly the racism of the white ruling class.
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If the developer has notified the planning authority in advance then the twenty eight day period is extended to four months.
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I promised a lowlight from a study predicting the future of boomers twenty years hence.
The Boomer Blog: April 2008 Archives
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He heard his name shouted and turned in time to see Kirk, twenty yards to his left.
Home Is the Hunter
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A conch-shell twenty inches long and ten in diameter will do for a sample -- not a small gasteropod!
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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Twenty eight percent of the federal budget is spent on defense.
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In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure .
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The table was set for twenty; the sideboard displayed all manner of treats and tracklements.
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Both originals (instrumenta) of the Concordat of Worms were read and ratified, and twenty-two disciplinary canons were promulgated, most of them reinforcements of previous conciliary decrees.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Beijing is contending for the leadership of the twenty-first century.
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On June twenty-fifth, nineteen-fifty, North Korean soldiers crossed the thirty-eighth parallel.
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Police say they have arrested twenty people following the disturbances.
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He was only twenty-six and had just recovered from a slipped disc.
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She was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for poisoning and attempted murder.
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Franchise won't letcha close; it's twenty-four-seven.
One Minute to Midnight
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Twenty-one percent of renters paid more than half of their incomes for rent in 1981.
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Far from deterred, Denier Bud said he had just put the finishing touches on what he considered to be his “best work” so far, a twenty-two-episode, two-hour-and-twenty-two-minute opus entitled Buchenwald: A Dumb Dumb Portrayal of Evil.
The Lampshade
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Black paid twenty-six dollars for the brass andirons, stamped ‘John Molineux / Boston,’ and the matching, but unstamped, shovel and tongs.
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After a while the bucket dips down twenty feet into the vat for oil.
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He is the MBE who did very little for it, but has since made amends twentyfold.
Battling and brave: Paul Collingwood retires from Test cricket
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Statistics compiled for the Group show that the male suicide rate has more than doubled over the past twenty years while the female rate has remained fairly constant.
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Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
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One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd.
Sirilyan Diary Entry
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It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
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Now the number of yawls has increased to twenty-five and the yawl racing competition has become a major tourist attraction on Achill island.
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I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet again had not the power, for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Suddenly from above us a twenty-foot-long heavy log burst into view, careening down the path like a bobsled.
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This was further compounded by the fact that Victorian children moved up to twenty corves per day, whilst being sick, malnourished and demoralised in many cases.
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This twenty-something Wood-elf is not what you would call devilishly handsome yet is never-the-less attractive in a somewhat boyish way.
Undefined
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Some indeed were revelling in the formulae of algebraical infinity and of twenty-four-dimensional space, like a child in the elementary class dealing with the four rules of arithmetic.
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By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways.
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Gavin Chapman came in with an overall time of four hours, twenty five minutes and nine seconds.
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Twenty years ago all the guesthouses and hotels would be full of holidaymakers - people spending and happy to be there.
The Sun
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I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
Horrible Boys
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The Indians of America carry all their products, such as maize, sugar, coffee, etc., in bags made of this leaf, which they know how to arrange so well, that they transport an "arroba," or twenty-five pounds any distance without a single grain escaping, and without any appliance other than a liana or creeper to tie it up with.
Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
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The flats tower above you - there are perhaps twenty five floors in the building, which looks grimy and worn.
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They put the twenty in the rat-pit and the dog went in first and killed his, and he took a quarter of an hour and two minutes.
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Between 1933 and 1939, he produced fifty-four short stories and twenty novels / novellas in serialized form under such pen names as Samuel I.
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Of the original twenty captive-bred maracanas that had arrived in Brazil, one had died and eight had been evacuated; this left eleven.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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The tax granted by the datary for the contracting of marriage out of the permitted seasons, is twenty carlins; and in the permitted periods, if the contracting parties are the second or third degree of kindred, it is commonly twenty-five ducats, and four for expediting the bulls; and in the fourth degree, seven tournois, one ducat, six carlins.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Twenty-one percent of patients examined had valvulitis or endocarditis.
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So far it was thought to belong to a mad scientist, who had a hook for a hand, and had killed twenty females while trying to create the elixir of life.
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While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all.
THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
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My maternal grandfather died the best part of twenty years ago.
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At least twenty people were on crutches, had parts bandaged, or with open wounds not even covered.
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In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
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How likely is it that a twenty-first-century music giving priority to ‘new classical’ virtues will sit happily with forms of writing which retain ‘modernist’ perspectives on multivalence?
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Six bloody hundred and twenty-bleeding-eight people sunning themselves in Athens at our expense!
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When he had prepared twenty or more of those pieces of poisoned tallow, he put them in what he called a fox bed, of oat chaff, behind that old barn.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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Despite those twenty years, it was the same old Tom Travers that alighted from the Pullman.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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Although he died about twenty years before the introduction of what became called nouvelle cuisine, he is nevertheless considered to be the father of modern
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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I have seen a girl, perhaps not more than twenty, also lacking textbooks, exercise books, biros, seen her teach the A B C by scratching the letters in the dirt with a stick, while the sun beat down and the dust swirled.
Doris Lessing - Nobel Lecture
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Twenty-four hours later, as the train slows outside Mogaung, I hop off, run down a dirt road, and leap into the first trishaw I see.
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The course takes forty hours, spread over twenty weeks.
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They had been driving through rain-drenched jungle for the last twenty minutes, and had seen nothing since the apatosaurs crossed the road.
Jurassic Park
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Twenty-six vehicles believed to have been stolen were recovered.
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In all, twenty three men who are based in towns in Mayo were dismissed on the grounds that they were not suitable for the work involved.
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The Emperor Marcus Aurelius died in 181, and the Church was little troubled by persecution for the following twenty years.
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Twenty bidders dueled for that 8-foot-long scene, and a private American buyer won it.
The Art Market Snaps Back
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"Twenty in all, " her brother answered, his voice ragged.
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Some twenty minutes after the accident the patient used a spoonlike earpick to remove a bony fragment from deep in his ear canal and we identified this as the malleus that had been fractured at its manubrium.
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But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
Wuthering Heights
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The 'work hard, get good grades and go to college to get a job' mantra is dead," says twenty-something self-confessed hustler Scott Gerber, author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke (Wiley, December 2010).
Emily Bennington: 'Entitled' to What, Being Unemployed?
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V. -- Your own fortune, father-in-law (in certain kinds of society they say _papa father-in-law_) yielding an income of twenty thousand, and which will soon be increased by an inheritance.
Analytical Studies
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The current batch of 11 twentysomethings were chosen from thousands at open auditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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TD: Well, it's my first new studio music in nearly twenty years, and I've written most of the music in England in the wheelhouse of my solar powered lifeboat looking out over the North Sea, which is a very inspiring place to be.
Mike Ragogna: TED, Solar Power, Windpower, and All Things Amerikana : A Conversation with Thomas Dolby
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He did aid an '' bet, as the loryers call it, in thet, an 'thet proves him 'bout as mean as a white man ever gits ter be; an', 'sides thet, he did _sell_ har fur twenty dollars -- a' ooman thet even th '' judge '-- an' he _ar_ a _judge_ uv sech things -- was willin 'ter pay twenty-five hun'red fur; he _did_ sell har fur _twenty dollars_; an' thet proves him a fool!
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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The instructions as to sterilisation are rarely given in full; the routine method of exposure in the steam steriliser at 100° C. (without pressure) for twenty minutes on each of three successive days for all fluid media, and thirty minutes on each of three successive days for all liquefiable or solid media must be carried out; and only when these general rules are to be departed from are further details given.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
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His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels.
THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
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This is yet another example of the same twentypercentism which has us building single lane bypasses around market towns when floodlit motorways, visible from the moon, are needed.
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In the center of the garden stood a twenty - kilogram statue.
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Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, seven states have executed a combined twenty-two juvenile offenders nationwide.
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Twenty eight acres was set aside for a reserve by the forward looking Hawera Town Board in 1875.
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And I got up at six oclock and left about twenty minutes after six to go down and get the car filled up with gas.
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Rocks joined Alfred twenty years ago as a sales representative who traveled to music stores throughout North America.
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His skill in applying color and gilding is remarkable, considering that the twenty-year-old had not completed a normal term of apprenticeship.
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Offshore, breakers swelled in the whitecaps and then crashed in the shallow water, strong enough to body surf for twenty yards.
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In delay there lies no plenty , Then come kiss me , sweet and twenty , Youth's a stuff that will not endure .
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Perhaps the most ecumenically minded Catholic independent schools are the twenty-one members of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, and many Jesuit schools also have substantial non-Catholic enrollments.
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During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains.
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
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Some twenty two thousand have been made homeless, and they still face constant danger.
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Californium - 249 has a half-life of 350 years; mendelevium - 258, fifty-one days; seaborgium - 266 twenty-one seconds.
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Could it be that behind the sophomoric, mischievous, dismissive, even nihilistic style, Vice is the voice of a twenty-something generation clearing the decks for a new aesthetic?
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In 1803 Napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from Paris.
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Of Oaxaca's twenty-seven churches, by far the most opulent is the Santo Domingo de Guzmán, built by Indian artisans in the 16th and 17th centuries and displaying much gold leaf.
Oaxaca: a festive city
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Twenty-three financial institutions, primary dealers, took part in the auction on October 25.
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Worn over her unfeeling body, the suit gave the thirty-something Casey the strength of twenty men, and made her almost impervious to harm as well as giving her certain enhanced sensory abilities.
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He was very young, not more than twenty-three or four, as indeed one could see at a glance.
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There was also an ancient-looking horn and an "erhu" -- a two-string instrument which produced the most heart-wrenching sounds, and the "yanqin", a string instrument so beautiful and powerful that I thought there were twenty different instruments playing at once!
Mao's Last Dancer
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Check it every fifteen to twenty minutes, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pot to make sure the meat is not sticking or, God forbid, scorching.
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After waiting for twenty minutes, the plane finally taxied and took off.
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Twenty men emerge in tie-dyed pareu covering their bodies.
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Beigel, in Virchow's Archives, mentions a cryptorchid of twenty-two who had nocturnal emissions containing spermatozoa and who indulged in sexual congress.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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They noticed fifty and twenty dollar bills floating in the water.
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Information technology has come a long way in the last twenty years.
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` ` Na, Laird, '' Jeanie replied, endeavouring as much as she could to express herself with composure, notwithstanding she still trembled, ` ` I canna gang in --- I have a lang day's darg afore me --- I maun be twenty mile o 'gate the night yet, if feet will carry me.' '
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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A typical meat-eating animal welfare advocate is personally responsible for the slaughter of twenty-two warm-blooded animals per year, 1,500 in an average lifetime.
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The big milling machine was working on the final large beryllium component, a large metallic hyperboloid about fifty centimeters in length, with a maximum width of twenty.
The Sum of all Fears
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Which is why one gag concerns the apparent interchangeability of the twenty-something Wall Street brokers and dealers with whom our narrator consorts.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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And it's all very well for Larry Twentyman to be hobbing and nobbing with the likes of them Botseys.
The American Senator
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Your twenty years of educating yourself on this subject has obviously paid off.
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Kisses and hugs are welcomed by entertainers and restaurateurs, and many twentysomething guys favor bro-hugs.
Workplace Deals, Sealed With a Kiss?
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More than twenty years of instructional lessons in self-regulated writing strategies have been transformed into consumable materials ready for classroom use.
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Twenty-eight of the marshals were shot and another 160 police officers were injured.
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B.A. Kwiatkowski, Ph.D. has been involved in biomedical research for over twenty years and published several peer reviewed scientific articles in top biomedical journals.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1066
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Jepson claims the service will charge a twenty-five cent connection fee for each call, and seven to fourteen cents per minute.
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The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land.
The Age of the Reformation
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The amounts of seed required per acre for the different kinds are about as follows: mammoth fifteen to twenty pounds; red (medium) twelve to fifteen pounds; crimson twelve to fifteen pounds; and alsike ten to twelve pounds.
Apple Growing
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There is no pension scheme in operation for employees working less than twenty hours per week.
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Twenty-two years later, despite its cornucopia of Oscars, this was now a film largely forgotten.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The hunter has twenty more hounds.
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The St. Katharinenthal novice Kathrin Brümsin was taught the text to all twenty-four verses of the sequence Verbum dei by Saint John the Evangelist in a dream-vision.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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A neighbor of mine went on an eating jag and gained twenty pounds in two weeks.
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Twenty-two percent of Caesareans are performed because of concerns for the baby's welfare, and another 20% are because the labour is not progressing.
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From a vantage point of twenty feet away they all crouched, watching the car, which appeared disinclined to burst into flame.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Can you break a twenty dollar bill?
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-- But she has head that the devil is black; and having a mind to make one of me, brays together, in the mortar of her wild fancy, twenty chimney-sweepers, in order to make one sootier than ordinary rise out of the dirty mass.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
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They sold an ass for eight hyperpoi, which is worth one hundred and twenty solidi in denarii.
De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
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However, for the 100,000 or so Aborigines (50,000 of them under the age of twenty) who are living mostly in remote or extremely remote communities, the story is one of unrelieved tragedy and horror.
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Twenty-six of these letters contained comments of the kind we presume Makhanya identified as amounting to "attacks on people who irked the President in one way or another", whatever this means.
ANC Today
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Twenty years ago they were knocking seven bells out of each other in the ghastliest of wars.
The Sun
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After twenty years as a chain smoker Mr Nathe has given up the habit.
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After twenty years as a chain smoker Mr Nathe has given up the habit.
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Two of the Task Force's twenty recommendations were that government should not impose any extraordinary tax on non-resident landowners or limit the size of their holding.
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Michael pulled out two twenty's and a ten-dollar bill and placed it in front of Tom.
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Twenty-two percent of those in stepfamilies also cited family relations, such as problems with siblings, stepsiblings, and stepparents.
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Working conditions/practices in the mill have hardly changed over the last twenty years.
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Nassau Candy is recalling twenty-six peanut bulk products since they could be infested with salmonella, an mammal that can means critical as well as sometimes deadly infections, especially in immature children, a elderly as well as those with weakened defence systems.
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He has collected, used and written about wooden planes and their makers for more than twenty years.
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In March 1868 he was articled to Samuel Way and at the age of twenty-three admitted to practice law at the South Australian Bar.
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Vivian Foley crossed to Ger Foley and his twenty yards shot hit the crossbar but fell to the feet of Gary Doyle who scored the opening goal.
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As I understand it, the unabbreviated procedure takes about twenty-six weeks.
Sagittarius Whorl
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To this it may be due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried but unwooed.
Captain Blood
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[171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave, -- that is, twenty-four sheaves.
Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
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She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman.
Hearts
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A key provision in the Act criminalized knowing membership in an organization that advocated the forcible overthrow of the government, and imposed a penalty of up to twenty years of imprisonment.
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I was informed, I believe by the late Dr. Whytt of Edinburgh, that of twenty cows in this situation two had died, and that he directed a pint of gin or whisky, mixed with an equal quantity of water, to be given to the other eighteen; all of which eructed immense quantities of air, and recovered.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Robert aimed to be independent of his parents by the time he was twenty.
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Twenty20 batting is largely premeditated and he outthought them.
Times, Sunday Times
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He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high.
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-- Members have been asked to surprise Secretary for Meetings Di Stefano which they instruct to attend a assembly during slightest twenty-four hours in allege of which meeting.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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The next morning I waited until Marc went out and then I used mam's phone to call the police and grass Marc for the twenty grams of cocaine he had stashed in a haversack under the stairs.
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By 1920 the Catholic population numbered about seventeen million and included some twenty-eight ethnic groups.
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The plan of Florence in 1427 shows a group of twenty unmistakable 'insulae', each of them about 1-1/8 acre in area, that is, very similar in size to the 'insulae' of Turin.
Ancient Town-Planning
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Twenty-four male and 29 female first-year psychology students participated to earn credit for their course.
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I fancy it was delightless to the husband as to the wife - just turning her twenty-first year, and learning for the first time in her sheltered life the taste of privation.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,
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Rose of Ireland and the White Rose of Devon, a noted Society phrasemonger had dubbed them, seeing them together on the lawn one Ascot Cup Day, their light draperies and delicate ribbons whip-whipping in the pleasant June breeze, ivory-skinned, jetty-locked Celtic beauty and blue-eyed, flaxen-locked Saxon fairness in charming, confidential juxtaposition under one lace sunshade, lined with what has been the last new fashionable colour under twenty names, since then; only that year they called it _Rose fané_.
The Dop Doctor
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The prioress said yes, but the father superior said no, not until she was twenty-one.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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He died two years later having served as a collector for nearly twenty-seven years.
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Since hunting was stopped about twenty years ago, the behaviour of the seals has changed dramatically.
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Twenty-five remaining African and Latin American countries recognize Taiwan diplomatically instead of China.
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He was kayaking in a twenty-four foot craft for seventy-four days attempting the first solo crossing of the Atlantic.
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a strange unity, that is to say, everything that Western man for twenty-five centuries was able to see or feel as common to what are at times radically heterogene - ous experiences, which he designates by the same word.
LOVE
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He saw comedies, tragedies, dramas, shows of acrobatics and clowning, all accompanied by fine music, and all this performed by a family of only twenty members.
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Her sapphire ring had been in such a box, her twenty-first birthday ring.
The Glasgow Girls
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She had been married at the age of twenty-two, and since the birth of her last child had suffered much from various uterine troubles, described to me by her medical attendant as 'ulceration, perimetritis, and endometritis.'
Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
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An Admonition of Warning to England comprises twenty-four rhyming couplets in alternating lines of iambic hexameter and heptameter.
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Step off twenty feet and then place a marker in the ground.
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As such, it is accorded special procedural shortcuts: it requires only a simple majority vote in both chambers of Congress, and, tantalizing from the administration’s standpoint, Senate rules permit just twenty hours of debate, so the bill can’t be filibustered.
Take Two: Hillary's Choice
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Father's a railroad president and many times millionnaire, but the son's starving in 'Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month.
Chapter 36
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Secondly, job security has also crossed traditional class boundaries in the last twenty years.
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As chairman of the association, he held office for over twenty years.
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Tietze 15.21 describes a woman of twenty-seven who exhibited a marked type of plexiform neurofibroma (Fig. 253).
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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The principal veins are from twelve to twenty-four inches wide, and carry besides gold, sulphurets, pyrite, galenite, &c.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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High cliffs towered above us, and fragments which must have weighed twenty tons had slipped into the water; one of them bore an adansonia, growing head downwards.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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It was a ship of classic, simple design, like a flattened salmon, twenty yards long, very clean, very sleek.
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Their houses by the river, to the number of twenty-two (_palagi e case grandi_), were sacked and burnt, and many among the chief of those who bore the Bardi name were driven from the city.
Romola
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Day after day we're treated to an over-long British news sequence covering the ‘events’ of the preceding twenty-four hours on the campaign trail, and nit-picking over the meaning of the latest polls.
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I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock.
Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
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About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout.
Of The Epidemics
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We've lived on this farm for twenty years.
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For they barter even for pieces of porringus, and of broken glass cups, so that I saw sixteen skeins of cotton given for three Portuguese centis, that is a blanca of Castile, and there was more than twenty-five pounds of spun cotton in them.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
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I've sat in countless staff meetings where doctors who see fifty patients a day are held up as examples to the rest of us sluggards who see twenty-five to thirty.
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I laughed out loud when I saw the larger ears glued to foam and such for I had done something similar back speaking of dinosaurs! twenty years ago… I made containers for orchids and such for a gig in NY… a round ball with a water pic inserted… they became part of table arrangements for a birthday party on Park Ave. I suppose mullein leaves could be used in a similar way.
More Moss Magic « Fairegarden
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Twenty different amino acids are coded by the genetic code.
The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
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Underneath some shabby canvas tarps on the cargo deck were stacked a dozen bulky mattresses and twenty thick pine boards.
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Twenty nine cars participated in what was regarded as the best and most enjoyable hunt ever.
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Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
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Mansfield†™ s lecture is a reading from the first chapter of his book, which argues that manliness†"what he defines as sexual rapacity, an appetite for war, a general bull-in-a-china-shop heedlessnessâ€" is preferable to the namby-pamby faggotistical mores being pressed on us by radical feminism and the castratory mandates of late capitalism / twenty-first-century bureaucratic culture.
Harper's Magazine
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock
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Twenty-two months after I'd last seen him, Bellman came to San Francisco for a series of performances with the symphony.
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TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
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For twenty years Joe has weighed, marked, and released flying squirrels that enter live traps attached to tree trunks.
