Example sentences of "about twenty " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the early eighteenth century about twenty families lived there , and according to the census of 1801 it had a population of 137 [ Baker , 2 , 720 ] . |
| 32 | It is now estimated that about twenty kilograms of uranium escaped through the pile chimneys , posing a risk even greater than that from the short-lived 1957 accident . |
| 33 | They were expected to take about twenty minutes to sink to the bottom . |
| 34 | Eventually they identified a shortlist of about twenty areas where the rock formations were considered suitably stable and dry to keep the nuclear waste containers intact over the long timescales envisaged . |
| 35 | The classic example of AGR failure , the Dungeness B plant on the Kent coast , eventually took about twenty years to finish , cost £3.5 billion to build ( at 1988 prices ) — roughly five times its original estimate — and has never operated at even half its intended capacity . |
| 36 | The museum extends to about twenty rooms on two floors , and the visit starts with a room of ancient weaponry and then moves on to rooms that contain sacred parchments and vestments — some with designs from the school of Leonardo — and lace . |
| 37 | At last , after about twenty minutes ' wandering , her feet soaking wet inside her leaking boots , and her leg muscles aching from wading through the snow , she arrived at the car park outside the administration block , and found her car . |
| 38 | To the fore of the courtyard about twenty male , mostly young , dancers shake their bodies rhythmically but independently as a man carrying a pot of burning incense weaves among them . |
| 39 | Every detail was spectacular , yet the whole formed a nothingness of intense light and cold ( about twenty degrees below zero ) . |
| 40 | We only have half a dozen species in our coastal waters , but the Mediterranean supports about twenty varieties . |
| 41 | After about twenty minutes , walking and fishing , she realised that she was hopelessly lost . |
| 42 | It was followed about twenty years later , in 1271 , by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ( ‘ Robert the Englishman , ) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco . |
| 43 | In the Columbia River area of the western U.S.A. where most of the lavas were erupted about twenty million years ago , such vast amounts of basalt were poured out on to the surface that hills 1,500 metres high were drowned in lava ! |
| 44 | About twenty metres down from the top , Priestley realized that the tin they had left in the cairn in fact contained their exposed photographic plates , and that what they were carrying down with them was the tin containing the record of their ascent . |
| 45 | He had his specially built twelve-foot big-wave gun , weighing about twenty pounds , ready and waiting . |
| 46 | About twenty minutes later he looked at me and said , ‘ Well , I was thinking about advertising a job that looked something like this . ’ |
| 47 | There is even a condition known as ‘ intensive care psychosis ’ which is said to affect about twenty per cent of those who have been patients in hospital intensive care units . |
| 48 | It is a good idea to practise this technique using the same piece of music each time and the length of one side of a cassette or record ( usually about twenty minutes ) is just about right for this exercise . |
| 49 | These were dug as a method of extracting coal at fairly shallow levels , and were usually only about twenty feet deep . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 52 | Do n't try to hurry the programme of exercises , which should take about twenty minutes or so . |
| 53 | It involves about twenty minutes of mild discomfort . |
| 54 | Castlebar is only about twenty miles from here and Mr Durkin 's automobile can do twenty-five miles an hour . ’ |
| 55 | About twenty or twenty-five guests would assemble at six o'clock , and we would play party games until supper . |
| 56 | And a dozen of my military colleagues will arrive about twenty minutes beforehand . |
| 57 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 58 | She was probably about twenty at the time and on her return created quite a furore among the ladies with her hair shingled in the latest fashion and sporting lipstick and rouge which was almost unknown at that period . |
| 59 | I entered into the spirit of the occasion by volunteering as one of about twenty stage guinea pigs , but within minutes I had been weeded out and sent back to my seat . |
| 60 | The Battalion entrained en route to the Lillebonne district about twenty miles from Le-Havre , A company along with B billeted at Gruchet-la-Vallasse , most men in open barns . |