Which preposition to use with twenties
Holworth Cliff was, in the twenties of the last century, the scene of a curious outbreak of fire.
There can be no doubt that Darwin had an abnormal fatigability, a lack of stamina and endurance in mental as well as physical application which plagued him from the late twenties to the sixties.
Many horses have trotted their mile under 2.30; none that I remember in public as low down in the twenties as 2.24.
And again, writing to Southey after the emancipation, he says (August, 1825): "Mary walks her twelve miles a day some days, and I twenty on others.
They have fifty out of a thousand, and we twenty out of threescore.
He was a well-built young man in his late twenties with short curly brown hair, finely chiseled features, and an obvious desire to please.
Tremelius Scrofa, your colleague on the Committee of Twenty for the division of the Campanian lands, a man distinguished by all the virtues and considered to be the Roman most expert in agriculture.
The remainder is divided into a series of 20 feet heights, two twenties from cornice to top of parapet of octagon, 20 in each of the two decorated stages of the spire, 20 to centre of the upper spire-lights, three twenties to the finial.