Full of admiration for the post-office, she followed her little sheet of paper on its way; she was happy, as we all are happy at twenty years of age, in the first exercise of our will.
I am wiser than my twenty years; nothing that is frank can hurt you in my mind.
I am twenty years of age, dear friend, but I have the sense of fifty, and unfortunately I have known through the experience of another all the horrors and the delights of love.
I have known him nearly five-and-twenty years, sire.
Twenty years, my friend, twenty years in this hideous grave!
You know I want very much to talk to you," said Levin.
And why, why is he interested in the partition of Poland?
Never had Levin been so glad when the evening was over and it was time to go to bed.
But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign.
This book (having searched for it in vain for five-and-twenty years) our author found at length in the Vatican.
It is twenty years," said he, dreamily, in French.
Hisses greeted the name, for Mr. Jay wished to enter into a treaty with Spain, agreeing to close the river for five and twenty years.
Kentucky will grow and conquer, and in twenty yearsbe a thriving community.
I'll do nothing rash; I'll be as staid as the judge you want me to be twenty years later.
I believe I do realize it as few men could, for never in my five-and-twenty years have I had a human creature to whom I could pour myself out, in whom I could really confide, with whom I could take counsel.
In this case the most noteworthy feature is that between the landlord and the tenants there is a body called the South Lincolnshire Small Holdings Association, which took 650 acres from Lord Carrington on a twenty years' lease.
Timur transferred his residence from Kandahar to Kabul, and continued during a reign of twenty years to stave off the anarchy which followed close on his death.
On Sundays and fete-days Sauviat wore a frock-coat of maroon cloth, so well taken care of that two new ones were all he bought in twenty years.
The sentence may be commuted to twenty years at the galleys, but for a decent young man, that is awful!
From the mere aspect of this region a thinking man would understand how, twenty years earlier, the inhabitants were at war with society.
At the end of twenty years, the children of the Turks who had fallen by his sword invaded the empire of his son; and their force is defined, in the lowest estimate, at one hundred thousand horse.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenty years" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
