Example sentences of "about twenty [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Pearson 's recent Hooligan : a History of Respectable Fears gives a persuasive account of law-and-order myths , which shows that people continually locate ‘ the good old days ’ of decent behaviour at some time about twenty or thirty years in the past . |
| 2 | About twenty or twenty-five guests would assemble at six o'clock , and we would play party games until supper . |
| 3 | There was always somebody there and we had a television set and rest room there , and there was always about twenty or thirty girls in it . |
| 4 | got about twenty or so . |
| 5 | I found some much-Tippexed poems typed on foolscap , plus about twenty or so printed A4 pages which looked like they were part of a play or film script . |
| 6 | So I had to work with him till I was about twenty or twenty-one or something like that , you know . |
| 7 | One answer was to construct three or four fortified entrenched camps about twenty or thirty miles from London as indirect protection , manned with regular troops ; another , to build about fifty works , about twelve miles from London , which being purely defensive could draw upon the vast resources of the city in men and materials . |
| 8 | No no no , och there was about twenty or thirty fires in the place . |
| 9 | My guess is that in about twenty or thirty years ' time , it would be reprinted and people would start to re-think , oh well , perhaps this is not so |
| 10 | Aye it 'd been about twenty or thirty . |
| 11 | ‘ For about twenty or so . ’ |
| 12 | And I would say , I 'd maybe be about twenty or thirty yards away from the coach , and I 'd say to the shunter when he come out , That buckeye 's not caught . |
| 13 | About twenty or |
| 14 | About twenty or would you say more ? |
| 15 | which was probably written about twenty or thirty years ago but recognised that his own congregations would be very suspicious of them ! |
| 16 | I 've done about twenty or thirty pages but that 's |
| 17 | that she sees much of him , he 's er about twenty or more now |
| 18 | well Brian will then needs twenty and I need about twenty as well , so cutting , you know the hill gate , the , the erm , the houses , you know as you go into the park , passed the Joiners Arms , you know those houses up there . |