English example sentences with "twenty"

Learn how to use twenty in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Where is your twenty? I'll give you five bucks for it.

It was twenty years ago as I look back on it.

We Japanese come of age at twenty.

We have kept in constant touch for twenty years.

We are entitled to vote at the age of twenty.

Twenty people perished in the blaze.

It takes twenty minutes to walk from the station to school.

Linda is sixteen, but had no trouble passing for twenty.

No matter which road you follow, the drive to town won't take you more than twenty minutes.

It was about twenty dollars.

The train is twenty minutes behind time.

The guests in the room were twenty in number.

The university was founded by his father twenty years ago.

The poet lived here twenty years odd.

The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.

The company laid off twenty percent of its work force; therefore, expenses decreased.

The building is twenty stories high.

Only twenty people will come to the party at best.

Twenty years already passed.

It took Jane twenty hours to fly to Japan.

This has been the trend for the past twenty years.

This was the coldest winter in twenty years.

That store employs twenty clerks.

Divide this line into twenty equal parts.

In the last fifteen or twenty years, there have been great changes in family life in Britain.

I'd like to break this 100 dollar bill into four 20 dollar bills and twenty singles.

Twenty families live here.

Australia is about twenty times as large as Japan.

The informants we used consisted of twenty Americans and twenty-one British.

That child can count to twenty.

Your shipment should be delivered within twenty four hours.

Four times five is twenty.

Twenty thousand yen, please.

Can I call you back in twenty minutes?

I'll call back in twenty minutes.

I'll be back in twenty minutes or so.

Twenty years is a long time.

Twenty police have arrived on the scene.

If I were twenty, I could vote.

She did not decide to be a singer until she reached the age of twenty.

No less than twenty houses were burnt down.

We could see the summit of a mountain twenty miles away.

Twenty miles is a long distance to walk.

Twenty teams entered the tournament.

I cover twenty miles a day.

We expected that we should have a warm January, but we hear that this winter is the coldest in twenty years.

It is twenty minutes past ten.

The troops advanced twenty miles.

The police will put you behind bars for twenty years.

This is the coldest winter we have had in twenty years, I hear.

It has been twenty years since I saw you last.

Our class has twenty-five boys and twenty girls.

We got stuck in a traffic jam, which made us twenty minutes late.

My family have lived here for twenty years.

My mother got married at the age of twenty.

I asked twenty people to my party but not all of them came.

I asked twenty friends to the party.

I was engaged in it for three years, that is, till I was twenty years old.

I paid twenty thousand yen for this hearing aid.

I have been acquainted with the mayor for more than twenty years.

I have written to him once a month for almost twenty years.

I had to wait twenty minutes for the next bus.

I said that I would be twenty next birthday.

We need twenty eggs all told.

Those who choose to retire can do so as early as sixty-two, although starting to draw their Social Security distributions at that age would mean that the payments would be reduced by twenty percent.

Typhoon No.11 is moving up north at twenty kilometers per hour.

The man pleaded for mercy, but he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his crime.

China is twenty times as large as Japan.

The train will be twenty minutes late.

As many as twenty students were absent.

More than twenty boys went there.

They have been married for twenty years.

In Japan, people become legally of age at twenty.

Japan is now very different from what it was twenty years ago.

I have been on friendly terms with him for more than twenty years.

I have been in his employ for just twenty years.

Would you run off twenty copies of his report?

His ranch covers twenty square miles.

He wrote this novel at twenty.

He wrote this book at the age of twenty.

Even though he has turned twenty, he's still too timid to chat with girls.

He earns twenty dollars a day.

He limited the membership to twenty.

He has been engaged in foreign trade for twenty years.

He drew a check for twenty thousand yen in favor of his wife.

He pulls down at least twenty million yen a year.

He went to meet Pizzaro and twenty of his men.

He bet me twenty dollars that I wouldn't do it.

He reads as many as twenty books every week.

He caught twenty butterflies.

They decided to meet there again after twenty years.

It is twenty years since they got married.

She covered twenty miles a day.

She said she was twenty years old, which was not true.

She could pass for twenty.

She had been proposed to five times by the time she was twenty.

She became a teacher at the age of twenty.

She is on the wrong side of twenty.

She cannot be over twenty.

She is said to have been an actress about twenty years ago.

She wished she had been born twenty years earlier.

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