Example sentences of "was about twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 2 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 3 | I think I was about twenty one several years ago now |
| 4 | It was about twenty years ago I met Compeyson . |
| 5 | Up to the eyes in snow , up to the toilet which was about twenty yards away , that was where lived then , in the house where Building Society is now , lived there for thirty four year . |
| 6 | And then when I was about twenty four , twenty four or five I 'd got twenty men working for me , so er we were n't doing so bad . |
| 7 | When she was about twenty , she worked in an office , one of two women among about thirty men . |
| 8 | When Edward was about twenty he had once intercepted the look exchanged by a young married couple . |
| 9 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 10 | That was about twenty years ago almost twenty years ago , so where they buy it now I do n't know . |
| 11 | So I had to work with him till I was about twenty or twenty-one or something like that , you know . |
| 12 | I thought he was about twenty eight . |
| 13 | It was about twenty yards in diameter . |
| 14 | No no no , och there was about twenty or thirty fires in the place . |
| 15 | He measured out thirty paces and stared up at the crenellated boundary wall which was about twenty feet high . |
| 16 | But I mean it was about twenty to thirty guys as I said . |
| 17 | Well when I started I 'm sure there was about twenty . |
| 18 | And he said he was working with an old fellow which is getting on in age and he was quite absent minded and he said , I was about thirty feet from the ground on a ledge er filling er s a hole ready for shot for blasting and the old fellow was about twenty feet higher than him and then he was ss er whatsit another hole and then a at the top of the chamber there 's a little hole , he said , like a roof we call it which is a little passage that goes up into the next floor and then we used that as an escape route he did n't have to go far . |
| 19 | I mean , he was about twenty years older , two feet shorter and ten stone lighter than Nevil . |
| 20 | I think the , I mean the , the huge drop that we had in situations vacant advertising in ninety , nineteen ninety one , when we fell from , I mean our job advertising was about twenty million pounds in nineteen ninety and was down to about eleven million in ninety one . |
| 21 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 22 | No no it was about twenty two . |
| 23 | It was about twenty five more |
| 24 | there was about twenty yeah |
| 25 | I remember when I bought it it was about twenty five quid |
| 26 | Well did n't work out too bad , she rented the hall , I think it was about twenty pound and then she had to pay the D J , I do n't know how much that was , and then she was gon na do her own food so |
| 27 | and I , I , probably only a youngster then , well I was about twenty six or seven , but er , I shall never forget her fingers were like claws she could n't move them they 'd sort of set |
| 28 | Well I 'd say to price it , I know they 're not quite so expensive on carpet but I 'd say I 'd say about seventeen pounds , but I bet it was about twenty seven or thirty one |
| 29 | When she was about twenty . |
| 30 | there was about twenty cards and you had to name everything that was on it , order everything , like you usually go , erm that 's it or something and erm you have to learn it in the MAs and MEs and things and all that and then she showed you and you had to take everything on that |