Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you could get erm a bedroom suite for about twenty pounds then . |
| 2 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 3 | Increase oven heat to crisp the pork and cook the stuffing for about twenty minutes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Closures and amalgamations are simply destroying internationally renowned centres of excellence and creating a positive area for redundancies , voluntary and compulsory , early retirements and relocation of about twenty thousand personnel . |
| 6 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 7 | Erm well if she 's going to be er having an income of about twenty thousand a year after the mortgage is paid I think that would be sufficient . |
| 8 | In one disturbance that received wide publicity , a policeman had stumbled across a gang of about twenty youths , said to be known as the ‘ Chelsea Boys ’ who ‘ armed with sticks and stones were fighting a contingent of similar young ruffians from Battersea ’ at Cheyne Walk by the river . |
| 9 | You can have cup of soup out the machine for about twenty pence . |
| 10 | For the first thousand feet there was nothing ; then a couple of private duels ; then a sprawling mêlée of about twenty aircraft spread over half a mile of sky . |
| 11 | In the parallel line of the submissive , a pretty , dark girl of about twenty was emptying her handbag on the instructions of a uniformed harridan . |
| 12 | This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units — or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain — and that 's if you remember everything in this book . |
| 13 | Sister Rosario 's beady eyes scanned the classroom for about twenty seconds before she said , ‘ Let that be a warning to any would-be bullies in this class . |
| 14 | Although , perhaps it was fortunate in one sense that er it completely destroyed the main machine shop and er it , it all happened over a period of about twenty to twenty five minutes . |
| 15 | There was a period of about twenty years when I had little to do with the club . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bring a tray into the room with about twenty items on it . |
| 18 | The Library turned out to be a small lecture room with about twenty hard chairs facing an overhead projector and screen . |
| 19 | [ 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 . |
| 20 | I mean , nobody 's gon na bother to check the colour of your shirt with about twenty other people on stage ? |
| 21 | Buses are running smoothly this evening , if somewhat slowly , but on the trains from Paddington to Oxford you 'll find a delay of about twenty minutes this evening . |
| 22 | After a rest of about twenty minutes , they copulate again and this process is repeated approximately seven times , by which stage the male is usually satiated . |
| 23 | For the rest of the time , to move from one shelter to another — a distance of about twenty yards — ; required considerable courage . |
| 24 | This Sunday first of all , the Sunday newspaper will get quite a lot of colour into its pages and will be expanded , and secondly the daily paper , starting next Tuesday , will become a two section newspaper with about twenty wee twenty pages a week extra . |
| 25 | Martinho and I were separated , then put back to back at about twenty metres , very much like pistol duellists from the old time . |
| 26 | stays on it on the game for about twenty minutes and he just sort of talks on and on |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The short-term store has a limit of about twenty seconds unless there is opportunity for rehearsal , e.g. this is the maximum time available between looking up a telephone number and then dialling it unless the operator repeats it to himself . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's sixty if she 's a day , ’ said Camille , who found it difficult , in her more regressive moments , to believe that anyone over the age of about twenty could find much reason for living . |
| 30 | But on his way to one of the farmers that Jack had forlornly recommended , John hit upon the real answer : a large timber plantation of about twenty acres — ash , sycamore , larch , balsam poplar , noble fir , silver pine — all in just the right condition for his purpose . |