Example sentences of "about twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 2 | Both these families had sons of about twenty , both had been in the crowd that won the signature from Menzies of Bolfracks . |
| 3 | She could make a move in about twenty minutes . |
| 4 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 5 | Time was initially divided between two sections within the station in order to broaden the range of contacts , and visits were made to other stations , but , as the time devoted to data collection lengthened and data collection itself became more intensive , the focus narrowed to one section : roughly about twenty people . |
| 6 | The German shelling lasted about twenty minutes , one gun continued to fire , starting with a clear crack , then the sound of the shell passing over , followed by the explosion as it hit the ground . |
| 7 | About twenty feet from the trench , in the centre of the dirt track leading to the road two Commandos were standing peering into a large hole in the ground . |
| 8 | They had set up their mortar about twenty yards from our trench , and periodically fired off a couple of bombs in the direction of the German positions . |
| 9 | After about twenty minutes I got up and prepared to leave , thanking both of them for their hospitality . |
| 10 | The mortaring lasted about twenty minutes . |
| 11 | [ CHRISTINE HAMMOND ] In 1958 there was only one television in our street , and when the Lone Ranger made his weekly appearance it was like a mini-cinema in John Logue 's front parlour with about twenty of us clustered round the little walnut cabinet . |
| 12 | He was the grandson of a traditional Kikuyu smith who made spears and knives in the late nineteenth century in a small village about twenty miles from Nairobi . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ About twenty to eleven it was . |
| 15 | Told that it was a fox 's cairn , he insisted on climbing up by himself to have a look at it , and was gone for about twenty minutes . |
| 16 | About twenty per cent goes on the maintenance of the forces in being at the time . |
| 17 | In this room , below the gallery , stood the dining table with about twenty chairs and a large decorative closed stove on one side , all of which increased the impression of a castle with a baronial hall . |
| 18 | With a slight wiggle of the hips he could get his pants to descend below his buttocks after about twenty steps . |
| 19 | Blew about twenty families to bits and sent a shocking number of people scurrying away without their parents or their children . |
| 20 | Today , having given up smoking about twenty years ago , I find it unbelievable that I should have smoked as many as ten cigarettes a day ; but they were one of the things that helped to create a bond with Dana , something we could share . |
| 21 | Marie could see another of them , almost buried by brambles , about twenty feet away . |
| 22 | Every other Thursday afternoon at four o'clock until about twenty past she had this bald man with the brightly striped ties and the wooden leg . |
| 23 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 24 | The splash was dusty but still visible and , without much trouble , I found the beginning of the trail about twenty feet straight ahead in the wood and followed it as easily through the tangled trees and undergrowth as on the day before . |
| 25 | But after about twenty paces , when she had forgotten that he might still be looking , the shoulders drooped , her footsteps slackened , and she walked like someone in a dream . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After about twenty stamps , he gives a big sigh , pours out a glass of wine , downs it in one , swings his great leg out of the window and off he goes . ’ |
| 28 | However , only about twenty per cent of residential homes in Flanders are of this type ( Hellinckx and Munter , 1990 ) . |
| 29 | Last year Lord Petre planted out about ten thousand Americans which , being at the same time mixed with about twenty thousand Europeans , and some Asians , make a very beautiful appearance , great art and skill being shown in consulting everyone 's particular growth and the well blending of the greens … |
| 30 | About twenty minutes and the hurricane would have them in its grasp . |