That colony now issued one hundred thousand pounds on loan, to its inhabitants, for twenty years.
These taxes were to be applied, for twenty-one years, to the use of the adventurers, and were afterwards to be paid into the royal exchequer.
Lewis lived to enjoy his prosperity, and the honor of the Clemens and Langdon households, for twenty-nine years.
And a little later he added: "I've got some kind of a heart disease, and Quintard won't tell me whether it is the kind that carries a man off in an instant or keeps him lingering along and suffering for twenty years or so.
The result was that the Kanzlar was hung up for twenty-four hours.
And yet, for twenty-five years these statesmen have watched Leopold disobey every provision in the act of the conference.
Break and wash the macaroni, throw it into the salt and water, and boil rapidly for twenty-five minutes.
Boil the sugar and water together for twenty minutes.
Boil two bunches of asparagus with one quart of water and one table- spoonful of salt, for twenty minutes.
Boil the water and sugar together for twenty-five minutes.
Stir into the gravy, season well with salt and pepper, and set back where it will simmer, for twenty minutes.
For twenty-five days they remained at Panuco; a riotous band of disappointed and reckless men, frequently engaging in sanguinary broils.
For twenty days De Soto remained in this encampment, recruiting his troops and making arrangements for a farther advance.
For twenty-three days the Spaniards remained in their miserable quarters, nursing the sick and the wounded.
The old lady was dressed out in a brocaded gown, which had not seen the light for twenty years, saving and excepting such truant rays as had stolen through the chinks in the box in which it had been laid by, during the whole time.
She supported this by an able speech in which she said: For twenty years we have pressed the claims of woman to the right of representation in the government.
All the glory which war can give, was obtained; and France, for twenty years, was feared and respected.
For twenty years he had taught his Brethren to study the mind of Christ in the Scriptures and to seek the guidance of God in united prayer, and now he saw them joined as one to face the rising storm.
For twenty-seven years it had been a monthly of very modest dimensions.
For twenty-five years he has been masquerading in false clothes and has now retired absolutely unknown to any living soul; and yet see him!
He was nearly fifty years old, and had lived with us for twenty-three years.
He was born in Amsterdam, and was about fifty years old, but he had lived with us for twenty-five years and a half, being employed in the brewery.
For twenty-three years he had ruled the House with fatherly care, and he was weary with many labours.
It has at least twenty members right along, most of whom can play their instruments, and Sim Askinson, who is a professional music teacher, has conducted it off and on for twenty-five years.
I could read your New York papers for twenty-four hours at a stretch, and at the end of the time I would have to stop some good-natured looking chap and ask what the news was.
We've read it for twenty years, and every week we open it up and poke through its internals after a sensation that will stand Homeburg on its ear and split the Methodist church from steeple to pipe organ.
For twenty-five years the Smiths and Cooney Simpson, who plays first clarionet, have been at swords' points, each with a faction behind him.
For twenty-four hours the gale continued; the wind then fell somewhat, but continued to blow strongly from the same quarter.
For twenty years he had voyaged to many lands, principally in ships trading in the Levant, and had passed through a great many adventures, including several fights with the Moorish corsairs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for twenty" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
