Example sentences of "[noun sg] about twenty [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 2 | Pulling down Anthony 's pants , Jerry Lewis whipped the boy about twenty times . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem . |
| 5 | On each side a wide staircase led up in six zigzag sections , breaking off abruptly on an open landing about twenty metres above the ground . |
| 6 | En route in a Cessna from the Isle of Man to Blackpool , he was alerted by ATC to a JetRanger ditching after engine failure about twenty miles off Morecambe . |
| 7 | This is in a twelve hour so for a daily flow we 've This was a surveying period about twenty percent for to these for a full day . |
| 8 | A grey Mercedes , parked on the pavement about twenty metres up the road . |
| 9 | For one thing it was not an air field but a large old house right in the centre of Huntingdon , a small market town about twenty miles west of Cambridge . |
| 10 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 11 | After digging a trench about twenty feet through the mound , the side fell in and one of the labourers narrowly escaped with his life . |
| 12 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So I lose patience and decide to skip all that stuff about twenty paces . |
| 15 | Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 18 | For instance , Abdulraham Bu Riziq spent most of the year in camp about twenty miles from Ajdabiya . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sometime between 1700 and 1703 she married the Revd Thomas Egerton , rector of Adstock , Buckinghamshire , a second cousin about twenty years her senior , and a widower . |
| 21 | She had hauled herself out of bed about twenty minutes ago when she 'd heard the doorbell . |
| 22 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 23 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 24 | The first thing was to find a school for you three — for six months you had had no teaching , except what I could give you , and then kind Miss Budden , the headmistress at Auckland House school , Simla , said she could take you if I could come too and help her nurse about twenty children down with measles in the san. , because Matron was coping with some children with suspected diphtheria in another block . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | and he said only cost about twenty cost about twenty five quid to get |
| 27 | Actually it would be more accurate to call it a tutor ‘ hut ’ since our class is based in one of those ‘ temporary ’ classrooms that sprouted up around schools all over the country about twenty years ago . |
| 28 | 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 ] . |
| 29 | ‘ What existed was a manuscript he began in prison about twenty years ago , ’ Gordon says . |