Example sentences of "be about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ealhfrith must have been about 20 years old at the time of the battle of the Winwaed , after which he became king of Deira , taking over the former territory of his cousin , Oethelwald . |
| 2 | There are about 20 at present ; they offer a valuable service , and are generally welcome Models include a permanent welfare officer available at the county court , rota schemes for duty lay advisers from local advice agencies , and duty schemes staffed by private practitioners . |
| 3 | There are about 20 intra-oceanic island arcs located along subduction zones at the present day , the great majority being found in the western Pacific Ocean ( Fig. 3.6 ) . |
| 4 | I 'll be about 20 minutes long . |
| 5 | Firstly , individual trade unions raise the real wages of their members at the expense of non-unionised workers — in practice wages obtained by collective bargaining tend on average to be about 20 per cent higher than other wages . |
| 6 | Run a program of this type on both your machine and your friend 's and compare results — your friend 's PC should be about 20 per cent faster , all other things being equal . |
| 7 | The optimal mussel size for a 30 mm dog-whelk seems to be about 20 mm ( Bayne and Scullard , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | The cost of manufacturing pellets from this commercial waste would be about 20 per tonne and the fuel produced should be competitive with coal . |
| 9 | MALT for distilling whisky will be about 20 per cent of 's total sales in 1993 . |
| 10 | There will also be about 20 contemporary masks , bought or specially made for the display , and dozens of comics featuring masked characters . |
| 11 | I got me 2,000 and averaged 55 , which were about 20 more than anyone else . |
| 12 | There were about 20 ringers at All Saints on practice night — men and women , boys and girls — of varying expertise . |
| 13 | When he had penetrated the bushes , he saw there were about 20 men , and they were all in exactly the same nightmarish state : their faces were wholly burned , their eyesockets were hollow . |
| 14 | And in spring and autumn , when the bats were most active , densities in the illuminated sections were about 20 times those in the unlit areas . |
| 15 | Whatever the cause and by whatever path the impact is felt , there is no gainsaying the fact that there is a clear differential in levels of infant and early childhood mortality by age of mother at birth of child and that this differential tends , on balance , to favour the children whose mothers were about 20 to 35 years of age at their birth . |
| 16 | In addition there were about 20 interesting and enlightening comments ranging from , " You can search on what you want with this if you just type in some buzz-words " to " It only looks for keywords — does n't analyse the search " The comments are given in full by Walker and Jones . |
| 17 | This sortie was planned to attack Turin on the evening that Mussolini was going to declare war on England , No 4 Group 's Whitleys flew to Jersey in the morning , refuelled and awaited instructions to fly to Italy ; I believe that there were about 20 of us . |
| 18 | It only has 3000 genes and by this criterion is about 20 times more complicated than a bacterium and 40 times less complicated than a human . |
| 19 | The potential net pay of middle carbonate member in Aabenraa-1 is about 20 m . |
| 20 | The average yield from these forests is about 20 cu.m/ha/year , but yields of up to 50 per cent more are now being achieved with new plantations . |
| 21 | The ‘ rule-based ’ spelling currently being tested is about 20 per cent slower to read for the first 1200 words , although some backward readers and beginners immediately improve speed or accuracy . |
| 22 | Very roughly , Varotsos guessed , the total cost of hardware is about 20 million drachma ( £160000 . |
| 23 | Separated from its neighbours and set in its own small garden , shared only by the owner who occupies another villa , Villa Sylvia is about 20 minutes walk from the sea and the resort 's centre . |
| 24 | However , nearly six million women are ‘ significantly obese ’ ( that is about 20 per cent or more about their ideal weight ) . |
| 25 | The shorter of the two videos is about 20 minutes long and is aimed at school boards and parent-teacher groups . |
| 26 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 27 | The theoretical wheel load was about 20 tons , but since the wheels were in pairs , and not suspended on flexible bogeys , unless the rails were level , the wheels on the higher level might be carrying the load for the pair . |
| 28 | It does appear that , in general , British new towns have a better than average safety record : a 1975 TRRL report suggests that the frequency of injury accidents in seven ‘ Mark One ’ new towns was about 20 per cent less than in other towns . |
| 29 | It was about 20 minutes into the game , and the English team was reportedly frustrated at losing all the put-ins to that point . |
| 30 | Taking the two tests together , the difference between the Scots and the world champions was about 20 points . |