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Example sentences for "after twenty"

  • At the present time, after twenty years of peace and freedom from organized crime, I believe the Burma Government has a fleet four times as large as that with which I had to be content.

  • Even now, after twenty years, it has not been surveyed beyond the Kunlon ferry, and the opinion of persons without engineering knowledge has been accepted as sufficient to condemn it.

  • After twenty-four hours in this solution, or as soon as the tissue sinks, transfer to a museum jar, fill with fresh mounting solution, and seal.

  • After twenty-four hours' incubation the first will show a pure cultivation of the Bacillus typhosus, whilst the second will be an almost pure culture of the Bacillus aquatilis.

  • Is that your answer to me after twenty years of adoration and devotion?

  • And now, after twenty-five years, Evelina's come back.

  • Was he so weak that only a slight accident had kept him from utter self-betrayal, after twenty-five years of magnificent control?

  • Miss Evelina had always hated the chair, and here, after twenty-five years, it confronted her again.

  • After twenty years of a French wife Soames had still little sympathy with her language; a theatrical affair and connected in his mind with all the refinements of domestic irony.

  • No wonder, at seventy-two, after twenty years of a third marriage!

  • Now, after twenty years of his second edition, that old tragedy seemed to him like a previous existence--which had ended when Fleur was born in place of the son he had hoped for.

  • Enzio, his bastard offspring, created by him King of Sardinia, after twenty-five years of imprisonment in a cage of iron dies a miserable death.

  • After twenty-four hours, rub it again with the pickle; next day boil this in paste like the leg of mutton.

  • After twenty-four hours more, strain again, and add the liquid to a third quart of berries.

  • After twenty-three years' marriage, God was pleased to call the king to himself by an apoplectic fit, in 936.

  • At last, after twenty years, I've caught you!

  • And he, among the last of the survivors, was now growing old, after twenty years of war and wandering, far from his wife and home.

  • After twenty-four hours the whole is thrown on a weighed filter, and washed until the washings are almost colourless and tasteless.

  • After twenty-four hours had elapsed there was sudden indisposition, the animal fell as if lifeless, with the hind extremities stretched out, and intestinal movements were visible; there was also expulsion of the urine.

  • The last application aroused the sleeper, he took some milk and again slept; after twenty-seven hours he could be awakened by calling, &c.

  • Simple Turnip Infusion* after twenty-four hours showed no sign of change, though in thirty-six hours it was slightly turbid.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bowing; after careful; after considerable; after death; after drying; after having; after him; after long; after making; after pausing; after preaching; after reading; after they; after time; after which; afterward found; afterwards ascertained; afterwards found; closed door; deep wound; fancied resemblance; happen next; her heart; metal and metal products; operative society; seized the