Example sentences of "be [verb] about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of the supporting in-depth interviews , one respondent said : ‘ We have one lawyer whom we contact once a month on average for disputes or land deals and so on and another one who specialises in debt collecting who may be chasing about 20 customers at any one time . |
| 2 | ‘ She would misinterpret everything you said to her and she had to be reassured about 20 times over . |
| 3 | Cranking the aircraft around in order to spot the rest of the attacking aircraft and determine the damage caused to the target , the Blenheim stayed in the Bremen area for 10 minutes , attracting a great deal of flak and being hit about 20 times . |
| 4 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 5 | That was shown about 20 years ago , shortly after the first voluntary code . |
| 6 | The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air . |
| 7 | At that time Ash was getting about 20 inquiries a month , mostly from employees , on how to introduce smoking polices . |
| 8 | He was flying about 20 minutes behind the Aero Club 's chief instructor when he radioed to Newcastle Airport air traffic control that he was descending to below 1,000 feet because of thick fog . |
| 9 | Highly selective vagotomy was introduced about 20 years ago and hence any cancer risk should become apparent in the next few years . |
| 10 | Traffic was running about 20 minutes late by 10am that day out of Chester on the Down lines , and platform space was at a premium . |
| 11 | The 14-year-old boy was walking the alsatian along a path between Park Avenue and Penparcau , Aberystwyth , Powys , when the attacker , who was aged about 20 , approached him and asked for money . |
| 12 | Joseph Rank had his first mill in Sproatley and the house where he lived is still outwardly the same , but the mill foundation was removed about 20 years ago when a modern housing estate was built . |