All twenty-odd vertical poles trembled inward together.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

After twenty-odd seconds there was a second single ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

Now, twenty-odd years later, I'm still waiting for that cure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Lou Song: Stem Cell Research Offers Hope to Type 1 Diabetics] Reference

I said desperately, 'She's only twenty-odd, for Christ's sake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

Another twenty-odd seconds and the third ring became continuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

"There are twenty-odd riders to the east," he said without preamble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

Japan twenty-odd years ago, nor for war with the Allies who marched to.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference

You getting beaten up, that started the Burning twenty-odd years back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

He had memorized it twenty-odd years ago, and I had memorized it only a week ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Space Merchants]

If you spent twenty-odd years in the slammer, every day you're out is a good day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bono On Bono]

He had been on the council for twenty-odd years and was vice-chairman at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Kathrine Robinson Everett, January 21, 1986. Interview C-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Eventually, when everything did get settled, sometime in the next twenty-odd hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knocked for a Loop]

All he saw was twenty-odd women huddled together at the entrance to the meat seats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Lady]

With these twenty-odd names before me, I sat down to think what my next step should be.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darrow Enigma] Reference

And it was not because he had grown callous in his twenty-odd years with Scotland Yard.    From Wordnik.com.  [the dirty duck]

That's the way you'll do twenty-odd miles, Ben, if we have to tote you down a single rod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

For twenty-odd years they have hounded her to marry, now that she may, they are horrified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

A few days later we learned that they had been shelling Dunkirk, some twenty-odd miles away.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference

To have arrived at that conclusion twenty-odd days after birth was an incredible achievement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Short Life] Reference

By that time I think we had twenty-odd IEC's and five community colleges and technical institutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987. Interview C-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Keith Crosby had fallen from grace twenty-odd years earlier, and I'd been at the centre of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some by Fire]

The guns left twenty-odd sharks on the rocky beach, and an awed silence among the watching Spirals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destiny's Road]

A description that's twenty-odd years old now from a woman who's been blind in one eye since birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortal Causes]

Cap'n Abe's a nice feller -- not much again him here where he's lived and kep 'store for twenty-odd year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

Barry Smith's inks for Conan the Barbarian (the first twenty-odd issues) are superb comics from that era.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Terrapin Station (entire suite)] Reference

I scanned the thread backwards - you, like, recapitulated the history of trolling in your twenty-odd posts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary Reportedly Will Hold No Public Events Tomorrow] Reference

It authorizes the importation of slaves for twenty-odd years, and thus continues upon us that nefarious trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Some twenty-odd responded and were being questioned as to qualifications, efficiency, and whether married or single.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

Hidden at the back of MES's bedroom cupboard for the last twenty-odd years, this was never a high-fidelity recording.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - anecdotes] Reference

I found out, after a bit of questioning, that several people have bought this place during the last twenty-odd years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference

Among the two hundred — all those having actual dealings with John — will be some twenty-odd people from the project.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

Of the twenty-odd countries who have or may be developing chemical weapons, two-thirds already have signed the Convention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Chemical Weapons Convention Statement] Reference

The Christmas holiday has spent a lot of time in court over the past twenty-odd years, and its appearances will get more frequent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darin Murphy: Holiday Advice for the Culture War: Pick Your Battles] Reference

And besides, it was of the very nature of that which had hurt Cousin Julia so cruelly in the case of her lover of twenty-odd years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference

My government is not doing the Right Thing now, but has progressively across the last twenty-odd years sold out our people and humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of an Old Soldier] Reference

Unfortunately, we know no more concerning this goddess than did the learned John Selden, who, writing two hundred and twenty-odd years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference