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Example sentences for "twenty times"

  • Twenty times he was on the point of turning back.

  • Christophe looked grim; but for his good resolutions he must have lost his temper quite twenty times.

  • But he was a man to admit the greatness of his adversaries: he had said so twenty times.

  • Miss Tox with tears laid down this proposition, and fully admitted it, twenty times a day.

  • I must offend before I be attainted; And had I twenty times so many foes, And each of them had twenty times their power, All these could not procure me any scathe So long as I am loyal, true, and crimeless.

  • This says she now when she is beginning to write to him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper.

  • If thou deniest it twenty times, thou liest; And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.

  • Twenty times at least I've almost screwed up my courage to ask her, but when it comes to the point, I simply can't do it.

  • I burn up twenty times a day," he continued, with a wave of the hand to express the completeness of the process; "there is nothing left.

  • Twenty times I was near telling you in my letters; but I stopped.

  • Twenty times I was on the point of not going.

  • Twenty times I should have thought her dead if I had not heard her breathing painfully.

  • Twenty times I was on the point of sending to get the letter back, but every time I said to myself: "Perhaps she will have got it already, and it would look as if I have repented of sending it.

  • There the ram-fall is upward of 600 inches in the year, or twenty times as much as it is on the west coasts of Scotland and Ireland.

  • So fond was she of the chase, that she continued to follow it, though she had been thrown from her horse six-and-twenty times.

  • Many of these young people will jump up twenty times a day and run to dabble the tips of their fingers in water, after touching the most inoffensive objects.

  • Twenty times as much waste of force produced by any of them, that is, would exactly kill him, nothing less than kill him, and nothing more.

  • Twenty times had he asked Mark to give him the latitude and longitude of the crater; twenty times had he been told what they were, and just as often had he forgotten them.

  • Twenty times did he hail to inquire if the buoys were to be seen, and at last he was gratified by an answer in the affirmative.

  • Twenty times a day she went from despair into anger.

  • Twenty times he was on the point of alluding to what had taken place the evening before, and as often refrained.

  • Meshes in the centre three to five times, in the periphery fifteen to twenty times as broad as the bent bars.

  • Meshes ten to twenty times as broad as the bars.

  • Spongy framework of the solid sphere loose, with large polygonal meshes of slightly different size, ten to twenty times as broad as the bars.

  • Six spines triangular prismatic, extremely elongated, ten to twenty times as long as the diameter of the shell, twice as broad as one pore.

  • I don't care if he is; it's altogether too much; tunes that he's sung to us twenty times!

  • He had asked me twenty times for an assignation, when I happened to meet him to-day near Porte Saint-Denis.

  • Twenty times I was tempted to cease to augment their number, but a secret hope whispered to me that I was the preferred one and that I should distance all my rivals.

  • Keep the lower limbs and trunk rigid, the head thrown well back, and thrust the body backward and forward from ten to twenty times.

  • Press back until the body again assumes an erect attitude, and repeat ten to twenty times.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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