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Twenty years ago, doctors would have cut off my leg and hoped, and there was a 15 percent survival rate.
Twenty percent of kids do not have those relationships.
Twenty years later, they succeeded and developed the polio vaccine.
Twenty years ago, a new generation of antipsychotic drugs were brought in; the promise was they would have fewer side effects.
We take the sandwich and wrap it up in a collard green, put an edible label that bears no similarity to a Cohiba cigar label, and we put it in a dollar ninety-nine ashtray and charge you about twenty bucks for it.
Twenty feet in every direction, everyone started to howl.
Twenty years later, following those villages, what we learned is that they had a better quality of life than their neighbors.
Twenty percent of the posters we are receiving comes from schools.
So to sum up: Twenty years ago, I had a college adviser tell me, when I went to the college and said, "I'm kind of interested in anatomy," they said, "Anatomy's a dead science."
Twenty years later, criminals are still using mobile phones, but they're also building their own mobile phone networks, like this one, which has been deployed in all 31 states of Mexico by the narcos.
Now, you probably don't need me to tell you about the events of last summer, where London and the UK saw the worst sustained period of violent looting and arson for over twenty years.
Even twenty years ago, modeling of this sort was completely unheard of.
And Tom opens up his lunch box and there's rice in it, and he goes on this rant about, "Twenty years, my wife has been packing rice for lunch.
Twenty percent of the foreign fighters were from Libya, 50 percent of those from a single town in Libya, hugely important since prior statistics put that figure at three percent.
Twenty percent of all the glucose in your body is used by the brain, and as you go from being normal to having mild cognitive impairment, which is a precursor for Alzheimer's, all the way to Alzheimer's disease, then there are areas of the brain that stop using glucose.
So, I thought, maybe I'll do this for the next twenty years or something.
Twenty percent of the electricity in homes is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have inefficient lightbulbs.
Twenty milliseconds later, the whole process is repeated until the quad strikes the ball.
Twenty years of not much growth and a trend line which is actually telling you that sub-Saharan African growth is slightly better than India.
Twenty percent at most, divided by 26 KPIs, repairability makes a difference of 0.8 percent.
Twenty years ago, when my family first started going to Italy, we used to luxuriate in the culture of siesta.
Twenty million children in the US lack access to care meeting modern pediatric standards.
Twenty years from now, we'll have nanobots, because another exponential trend is the shrinking of technology.
Twenty or 30 years ago, if a chicken caught a cold and sneezed and died in a remote village in East Asia, it would have been a tragedy for the chicken and its closest relatives, but I don't think there was much possibility of us fearing a global pandemic and the deaths of millions.
Twenty or 30 years ago, if a bank in North America lent too much money to some people who couldn't afford to pay it back and the bank went bust, that was bad for the lender and bad for the borrower, but we didn't imagine it would bring the global economic system to its knees for nearly a decade.
In a fitting twist of fate, the United States Treasury announced in 2016 that Tubman’s image will appear on a redesigned twenty dollar bill.
Twenty days later, the ice started to fall.
As my favorite author, Jane Austen, puts it, "An unmarried woman of seven and twenty can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
Twenty years ago, Robert Axelrod used the prisoner's dilemma as a probe of the biological question: if we are here because our ancestors were such fierce competitors, how does cooperation exist at all?
Twenty years ago, in a conference Richard and I were at together, I wrote a poem, which seems to me to still hold for me today.
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