(1) He also announced that the Bank would carry out a review of the process for selecting the historical figures who appear on banknotes, to ensure that a diverse range of figures is represented.
(2) Bank of England urged to make new £5 note vegan-friendly Read more It decided earlier this year not to withdraw plastic £5 banknotes from circulation and said it would push ahead with production of the new £10 polymer note featuring Jane Austen, which is to be issued in September.
(3) In a letter to the Conservative MP Mary Macleod, Carney said he had raised the issue of women's representation on banknotes with colleagues on Monday, his first day in the job.
(4) There’s also extended soft-wear contact lenses, Aerogard insect repellent and polymer banknotes.
(5) As well as a “bimetallic” construction similar to the existing £2 coin, the new £1 will feature new banknote-strength security pioneered at the Royal Mint’s headquarters in Llantrisant, South Wales.
(6) Their achievements knock spots off Austen and most of the men currently on our banknotes too.
(7) Their high-profile campaigns – to have women on banknotes , challenge online misogyny and banish Page 3 , for example – though necessary and praiseworthy, do not reflect the most pressing needs of the majority of women, black and minority-ethnic women included.
(8) In the early hours of 8 August 1963, beside a railway line in Buckinghamshire, Bruce Reynolds and 14 other men halted the Glasgow-London night express at Bridego bridge, broke into a Royal Mail coach and, in a swift and perfectly executed operation, departed with £2,631,684 in used banknotes.
(9) HSBC offered instead to provide him or a colleague with sterling banknotes in Switzerland, recording, “what he decided to do with friends of his … was his affair”.
(10) The structure is renowned across the world as an incredible feat of engineering so it was a fitting choice for a ground-breaking new banknote."
(11) Sir Mervyn King, the Bank's former governor, had let slip to MPs that the author of Pride and Prejudice was "waiting in the wings" as a potential candidate to feature on a banknote, and his successor, Mark Carney, confirmed on Wednesday that she would feature, probably from 2017.
(12) Why don't we have one of our great women scientists like Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and a suffragette like Emmeline Pankhurst on our banknotes?"
(13) Carney launched a public consultation on polymer banknotes , seen as cleaner and more durable, shortly after arriving at the Bank this summer.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bank clerk counts Chinese banknotes in Huaibei, Anhui province.
(15) Given the unfolding scandal gripping the City, it seems more pertinent to say that if you spot a banknote sticking out of someone's pocket then your eyes are deceiving you – or else somebody else would have pinched it.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Caroline Criado-Perez received threats via Twitter after her campaign to have Jane Austen featured on banknotes.
(17) The Bank of England is considering introducing plastic-like polymer banknotes in Britain.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The new banknotes are printed on polymer, a thin flexible plastic film, which is seen as more durable and more secure.
(19) Amid all the big decisions, there's one other burning responsibility – the issue of whose images should adorn the banknotes in the purses and back pockets of the nation.
(20) India's banknote ban: how Modi botched the policy yet kept his political capital Read more The decisive win was interpreted as a broad endorsement of Modi’s decision last November to invalidate 86% of all currency in circulation as part of an anti-corruption drive.
Twenty
Definition:
(a.) One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.
(a.) An indefinite number more or less that twenty.
(n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score.
(n.) A symbol representing twenty units, as 20, or xx.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(3) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(4) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(5) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
(6) Twenty-nine patients had a marked organic tricuspid valvular disease.
(7) Four hundred and twenty-five lesions were dilated in 370 patients.
(8) Striated muscle fibres were found in each of twenty consecutive pineal glands cultured from individual neonatal rats.2.
(9) Twenty-seven human septums were removed at post mortem, examined macroscopically, sectioned coronally and examined microscopically.
(10) Twenty-one patients received 4.5 mg. per kilogram of intramuscular lidocaine and 25 patients received placebo in the deltoid muscle within 14 hours of the onset of symptoms.
(11) Twenty strains did not agglutinate with commercial serum O-Yersinia IMUNA; they were included in the group "Yersinia enterocolitica other biovars" and 60 strains were "Environmental Yersinia isolates".
(12) The results showed that twenty-eight bands were significantly rearranged (P less than 0.05).
(13) Twenty cases of advanced testicular tumors treated primarily by PVB therapy were reviewed.
(14) Lipoprotein(a) was discovered by chance by Berg in 1963; after twenty years of research, the chemical, physical and metabolic characteristics of Lp(a) are now known.
(15) Four of 18 patients showed no change over the twenty-four hours while 7 patients showed some variation without definite diurnal pattern.
(16) Heptathletes peak in their mid-to-late twenties – two Olympic cycles away yet for Johnson-Thompson – so what would she like to achieve in London?
(17) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(18) Twenty-six contacts of 21 families were vaccinated, usually within three days after onset of the index cases.
(19) Twenty patients with central retinal vein occlusion were randomly divided into two groups in a prospective study to evaluate the effects of xenon are photocoagulation in central retinal vein occlusion.
(20) The twenty-five participants, from four different countries, were asked to rate each TC regarding its importance for teachers and whether they possessed them or needed further training.