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Example sentences for "only twenty"

  • The colony consisted at first of only twenty-nine persons, for whom huts were built and also a provision warehouse.

  • She is neither ugly nor pretty, and at most is only twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.

  • The Commodore, for so Anson is always called in the narrative of this voyage, reconnoitered the Island of Mas a Fuero, which is only twenty-five leagues west of Juan Fernandez.

  • The battle of Chattanooga had opened the great central gateway to the south, but the rebel army, still determined and formidable, yet lay in its path, only twenty-eight miles away.

  • Of its forty-eight available guns, only twenty-one were in the casemates, twenty-seven being on the rampart en barbette.

  • The whole of the possessions in India of the French amount together to only twenty-six leagues square.

  • But the dear proselyte, who is only twenty-five years of age, cannot live upon his pay of seven sequins a month, and since his abjuration he has received nothing from his parents, who are highly incensed at what they call his apostacy.

  • If you were to ask me to shew you the scar, I could not satisfy you, for you must understand that the body I had at that time does not exist any longer, and in my present bodily envelope I am only twenty-three years old.

  • Only twenty-five miles wide is the Tsushimi Channel or Strait, between Tsu Island and the Japanese coast.

  • Only twenty men of the garrison escaped down a covered way, which they blocked behind them by the explosion of mines.

  • The gallery* directed to the north-east, is only twenty-five toises long.

  • In seasons of great drought, the time at which we visited the ravine, the whole body of the thermal waters forms a section of only twenty-six square inches.

  • Emmet was a brilliant, eager boy, only twenty-four, and had been expelled from the University of Dublin for sympathy with the revolution of 1798.

  • There are very few Protestant patients, however, only twenty being in the asylum at present, the population of the district being largely Roman Catholic.

  • It is only twenty minutes' ride by street car from the center of Dublin, and the business men can come out here to spend the long summer evenings at their sport.

  • Glen's only twenty-four and handsome as a picture.

  • Only twenty-four, and handsome as a picture," thought Lord Canning.

  • Here was a vender of neckties, displaying a varied assortment of different colors, for "only twenty-five cents each.

  • The last exploit of this expedition was to demolish the fort and destroy the navy-yard of Portsmouth; when Collier and Matthews returned to New York, after an absence of only twenty-four days.

  • Only twenty-nine peers assembled at the final judgment; to each of whom every one of the sixteen articles was put separately, with the question of guilty or not guilty.

  • The British admiral had with him only twenty-seven sail of the line and four frigates; six ships of the line having been dispatched to Gibraltar for provisions and water.

  • When the committee divided, the proposed clause was rejected by a majority of only twenty-five.

  • At one period it had a width of only twenty-five feet, and was widened to the extent of forty, through the liberality of certain persons.

  • Here we stand on the principal artery of the commerce of the city, St. Peter street, having a width of only twenty-four feet.

  • I have been asked to dance by only twenty-seven.

  • They were so enormously big that they appeared to have lost their distinctive features, and seemed to be only twenty-five masses of fat.

  • Only twenty-seven years from this date, in 1526, it was imported from St. Lucar in Spain by Bristol merchants.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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