Go and warn them to finish eating and be ready to march in twenty minutes!
Fifteen ortwenty minutes later (it seemed like twenty hours, sahib!
In twenty minutes we were under way, with a screen of horsemen several hundred yards ahead and another little mounted rear-guard.
We started the instant the storm began--twenty minutes or more before it settled down to rage in earnest.
Unless you produce your nominee within five-and-twenty minutes, I claim the match.
We did the last six well under twenty minutes," said he.
Eight-and-twenty minutes," said my uncle, looking at his watch.
I calculated that the boy might be back in twenty minutes, and that I might drive to St. John's Wood, on his return, in twenty minutes more.
Sir Percival came up, after breakfast, to tell us that the chaise would be at the door at a quarter to twelve--the train to London stopping at our station at twenty minutes after.
The ship still leaks but the water can now be kept under with the hand pump by two daily efforts of a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes.
Twenty minutes later he would be back, as often as not covered with drift and his wind helmet all iced up.
For the rest the new hands were finding out how to keep warm on the Barrier, how to pitch a tent and cook a meal in twenty minutes, and the thousand and one little tips which only experience can teach.
Why, my answer will very likely be here inside of twenty minutes!
Yet, in twenty minutes, each submarine boy found himself in the duty uniform of a United States junior naval officer, each uniform adorned with the insignia of the wearer's rank.
Twenty minutes later, Williamson having been found, the crew was all ready for the start for Craven's Bay.
Twenty minutes, twenty tedious minutes, passed thus, then ten more, and at last the clock struck the half-hour.
At twenty minutes of twelve, Madame Danglars, tired of waiting, returned home.
An interesting experiment with positive after-images can be performed as follows: Shut yourself in a dark closet for fifteen or twenty minutes to remove all trace of stimulation of the retina.
What change comes over objects after the glasses have been worn for fifteen or twenty minutes?
I got some water from a nearby slough and we soon had the potatoes on; after they had been boiling for twenty minutes we tried them to see if they were nearly ready, but they seemed as hard as ever.
The officer in charge asked the policeman where he caught us, and he answered, "Twenty minutes' walk from the Holland border.
Carriages were waiting and we reached Unqua in twenty minutes.
We left attwenty minutes to five, and owing to the steamer being late on Lake Ontario we did not reach the Macpherson's till half-past nine.
After a struggle which must have lasted from twenty minutesto half an hour, I gained the ridge which had seemed but three minutes away, and there sat down to a silent lesson in geography.
The snow by this time lay ankle-deep, and even deeper in the pitfalls with which the ill-lit streets abounded; but in twenty minutes I had reached the Via Balbi.
There, twenty minutes later, my father took leave of me, after giving some last instructions for the care of the invalid.
Now, the general will be down in fifteen or twenty minutes.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenty minutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
