Example sentences of "about twenty five " in BNC.

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1 I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all !
2 Norway , Sweden , and Switzerland continue to provide about twenty five to thirty percent .
3 About twenty five , twenty six I think I 'll
4 Yeah well you see John 's got about twenty five years ' experience with computers on me .
5 Er of the other seventy percent , er about twenty five percent of that will be from bought in finished material , from companies in the U K.
6 Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices .
7 Er I think they , they were a bit more my , my gut feeling on this what it would cost somewhere around about twenty five grand
8 There is a large tower at one end of the church which is about twenty five metres high .
9 The journey lasts about twenty five minutes .
10 The the evening I was there there were about twenty five people in the room and people were falling asleep .
11 I remember one lady there , she was only young , and she was she was only about twenty five , and er she had a a twelve bore , single barrel gun .
12 And er I feel I 've been wearing one for about twenty five years and I feel a lot better , I feel I feel as if I look good in a wig .
13 Er the County Council 's given us a figure of roughly about twenty five , twenty six thousand .
14 Erm , what I 'll also do , we 'll only sort of talk for about twenty five minutes , about the essay , and then we 'll look at sh writing short answers er , for the exam ,
15 I can say to you right now with confidence that if I 'd asked you to start writing er a list of the categories that people er that you think might advertise in these you 'd probably get about twenty five .
16 Whilst it is accepted that the total provision for the County , erm five hundred and sixteen hectares about twenty five he per cent above the approved plan provision , the County Council considers this is justified on the basis that it provides the most generous level which can be justified on the information which is available and at a time when changes in the distribution of business use are to say at the least unpredictable .
17 It 's about twenty five percent .
18 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 .
19 Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course .
20 Far more than household waste which forms about twenty five per cent of the total and therefore I feel that we can make an enormous contribution to the improvement of our environment by the establishments of sites for the collection for the sorting and resale of the building materials .
21 Er and that 's been quite successful , about twenty five or thirty chief executives , chairman come to that lunch er each each quarter or so er we hosted about six of us and it 's a tremendous opportunity to get to know and be known er in the business community .
22 It takes at least five Americans to write a book erm they 're all multi- authored volumes erm for , for most of your purposes , for almost all your purposes er and certainly for basic reading for , for lectures and , and tutorials it really does n't matter which one you read erm there are , I mean there are in the library I think the last time I counted them about twenty five or thirty general textbooks on American politics , it does n't really matter er which one you read .
23 It was about twenty five more
24 They only escaped with about twenty five pounds , money which Mrs Selman had been saving to pay bills .
25 Someone gives you a sort of two point three four And you 've got about twenty five decimal places of miles
26 Somewhat cheekily that committee came back to us and asked us very nicely would we provide about twenty five for the force , which we thought was a cheek but having said that we 've actually looked at it and there may well be a way that we could afford it .
27 Ballantyne 's boys are about twenty five years old and the oldest boy in Golding 's book is only just twelve .
28 when you think about twenty five
29 He got in about twenty five to five .
30 I remember when I bought it it was about twenty five quid
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