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1  We have about twenty minutes at our disposal.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  For perhaps twenty seconds he sat without stirring.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  For perhaps twenty seconds they were hauling at him.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  It was a sheer drop of ten or twenty metres, with boulders at the bottom.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  He wondered whether she took in washing for a living or was merely the slave of twenty or thirty grandchildren.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  She was about the right age and physique, and it was probable that people changed somewhat after twenty years in a forced-labour camp.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  There was one about four and twenty blackbirds, and another about a cow with a crumpled horn, and another about the death of poor Cock Robin.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried on to the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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