Example sentences of "[noun sg] about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stolen van was spotted by a patrol car about 20 miles away in Rowstock . |
| 2 | The synaptic zones are without glial processes , the participating axon branches or dendrites are separated by a synaptic cleft about 20 nm wide , and the presynaptic knob contains mitochondria , glycogen granules and vesicles . |
| 3 | Two of the drovers took a strip of white cotton about 20 yards long and held it across the top of the quay , and it did for a fence . |
| 4 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 5 | Poecillopsis gracilis — The Porthole Livebearer which is common at this location was Pat and Derek 's first wild livebearer species which they bought from a local aquarium shop about 20 years ago . |
| 6 | He hit me on my bum about 20 times . ’ |
| 7 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 8 | Last weekend about 1,000 troops of the non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) attacked military outposts along Route 69 , which runs parallel to the Thai border about 20 miles inside Cambodia . |
| 9 | Later the same day about 20 soldiers wearing the green berets of Eyadema 's presidential guard briefly held the broadcasting station , before leaving at nightfall . |
| 10 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 11 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was in the water about 20 minutes before being fished out into a lifeboat and eventually two destroyers arrived to take the survivors to Reyjavik . |
| 13 | However , there was a significant minority of floating voters : on average about 20 per cent of the electorate . |
| 14 | The £200 driving lessons , which last ninety minutes , average about 20 miles an hour , quite fast enough when trying to sort out gears , brakes and throttle . |
| 15 | 13 this is replaced by a full boss and an elongated triangle about 20 cms . |
| 16 | In the first ( for ileocolonic transit ) , a Tygon cannula ( external diameter : 1.22 mm ; internal diameter : 0.76 mm ) was placed into the distal ileum about 20 cm from the cecum , the cecum was opened , and the ileocaecal segment was rinsed of any residue with warm saline ( 37°C ) . |
| 17 | The ICRDG has invited earth scientists from the geological surveys of almost all the developing countries to spend eight weeks in Cyprus , living and working alongside its members ; during the summer about 20 will come . |
| 18 | Apply a lip moisturiser or lip balm about 20 minutes before you want to apply lipstick . |
| 19 | On Sunday we had a successful open-door schooling , visiting an ‘ advanced Tachai-type ’ commune about 20 miles from Nanking , in the rice growing area . |
| 20 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |