Example sentences of "[be] about twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're about twenty years too late . |
| 2 | I think they 're about twenty pounds . |
| 3 | But when you 've moved a five-bedroomed house which has got a grand piano in it as well , and you 're about twenty to thirty foot at the back and all you can see is furniture furniture furniture furniture furniture , you can imagine as you go on you 're thinking God will we ever get to this ? |
| 4 | Aye it 'd been about twenty or thirty . |
| 5 | And then when we finished er finished the game about , I do n't know must have been about twenty to eleven when we finished the game there was sandwiches and chips coming out . |
| 6 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 7 | Must have been about twenty one . |
| 8 | He had this really nice cap and it was a really smart cap , I just really liked it and he was a bit of an ugly , well he was n't ugly he was just really gormless and I said erm he must have been about twenty something and I said to him can I have your hat , he said no it 's from a friend , it 's sentimental or something |
| 9 | The Ouse Washes are about twenty miles long and half-a-mile wide . |
| 10 | There are about twenty of us altogether , including half a dozen constables carrying the gear . |
| 11 | There are about twenty different amino acids and these may be arranged in any sequence . |
| 12 | Ballantyne 's boys are about twenty five years old and the oldest boy in Golding 's book is only just twelve . |
| 13 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 14 | So if it 's every weekend it 'll be about twenty twenty |
| 15 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 16 | Tomorrow , we 'll be about twenty miles and another half a dozen locks further on . |
| 17 | Er yes , one son Ian Mark and Ian will be about twenty . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There 's be about twenty clippers at it . |
| 20 | Do you mean , must be about twenty years ago then ? |
| 21 | I said my share 'll be about twenty five grand roughly so he 's quite happy with that , yeah . |
| 22 | Or it 'll be about twenty quid or something . |
| 23 | Must be about twenty two . |
| 24 | It 's after nine , it must be about twenty past to half nine here 's your breakfast cu Christ get out the way , get out ! |
| 25 | if you 've got one bit that ca n't work without another bit , and the bits can be relatively cheap , say may only be about twenty P a bit , but if the twenty P bit does n't arrive to work with the other bit |
| 26 | What , it , it was going to be about twenty five pounds was n't it Jean ? |
| 27 | When they were about twenty yards from the house , Jackie signalled them to crouch down behind a large bush covered in strange waxen blooms , like roses , only they were n't . |
| 28 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 29 | There were about twenty applications for the editor 's job , which were marked up under headings of ‘ politics ’ ( most got zero ) and ‘ experience ’ . |
| 30 | There were about twenty of them . |