Example sentences of "[prep] about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 2 | After about 20 March , the weather becomes more sultry , and on about 6 June it starts raining . |
| 3 | This was , in fact , found to be so and the results were interpreted to show that short term memory decayed after about 20 seconds . |
| 4 | The organisation finances a full-time staff of about 20 with offices in Westminster , Preston and Glasgow . |
| 5 | A test would consist of about 20 ‘ lines ’ , each of about 20 linked circles . |
| 6 | A test would consist of about 20 ‘ lines ’ , each of about 20 linked circles . |
| 7 | Witnesses said clashes erupted after several thousand ringed the Interior Ministry headquarters in Kishinyov , protesting against the detention of about 20 fellow nationalists who disrupted a 1917 anniversary parade on Tuesday . |
| 8 | Mr Bekesi said that unless the government moved swiftly on economic reform , the outcome would be a flourishing black market , widespread shortages , inflation much higher than its current level of about 20 per cent , and high unemployment . |
| 9 | It means a government confident in its support from more than 40 per cent of the voters , rather than one nervously beholden to the conditional backing of about 20 per cent of them . |
| 10 | Very sensitive patients who quickly become over stimulated by or prove the remedy when given in the standard dose can reduce it , next time , by diluting a teaspoonful from the first glass in a second glass of water thus reducing the dose by a factor of about 20 for each glass used . |
| 11 | Having recently been involved in the revision of about 20 standards dealing with the analysis of iron , steel and ferro-alloys for the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) , I have just learned that in all these documents the spelling of sulphur is to be altered to sulfur , for the element and in the names of all its derivatives . |
| 12 | The registrar will have a staff of about 20 , but will have to look after a register of perhaps hundreds of thousands of computers . |
| 13 | It was , incidentally , a journey of about 20 miles , and it is an interesting reflection on the times that no one saw any danger in an 11-year-old embarking on such a trip alone . |
| 14 | Currently the band have a repertoire of about 20 Hendrix tunes , with Slim occasionally going the whole hog playing guitar behind his head and often performing a full Woodstock style Star Spangled Banner , much to the delight of the crowd . |
| 15 | A group of about 20 girls arrived at the Outreach Farm centre in Lancashire that wet Wednesday morning . |
| 16 | In water , at least 40% of UV radiation is transmitted to a depth of about 20 inches , which means that it is easy to get burned when swimming . |
| 17 | A CRT light-pen was used for input of script , and possible answers were lists of about 20 words . |
| 18 | This resulted in the loss of about 20 staff , bringing the total headcount here to 100 . |
| 19 | A steady decrease in the rotation rate has been interrupted at intervals of about five years by glitches : discontinuous increases in rotation speed followed by partial recovery in the form of an exponential return to a new slowdown rate on a timescale of about 20 days . |
| 20 | The old Company had paid lavish dividends of about 20 per cent at first , which had led to calls on the shareholders for more capital in the 1690s ; after 1709 the new company paid dividends starting at 8 per cent and declining as the years passed . |
| 21 | If you let go of it before the fire button is released , the ball is kicked at an angle of about 20 degrees to the direction of travel — ideal for shots at goal . |
| 22 | This allows the capture of 14 animals — eight ( including the seven females allowed ) are already in zoos — which means that there will be a population of about 20 animals with which to attempt captive-breeding . |
| 23 | … we attended at the School on Monday the 17th [ July , 1833 ] and found that it was divided into six classes , the first being composed of three boys only whose study was the Classics , the second of about 20 who were instructed in the Latin Grammar , and the remaining four classes were composed of boys whose education was confined to Reading , Writing , Arithmetic , and English Grammar , in which instruction the boys in the two senior classes also participated . " |
| 24 | This would also have reproduced John 's set-up more closely as well , since he had a large group of about 20 adults . |
| 25 | Wihtred was in his sixth regnal year in April 697 ( CS 96 : S 18 ) , so he secured the kingship either early in 692 or after April 691 , when he will have been a young man of about 20 . |
| 26 | Heights are usually up to 12.5 metres and lengths of about 20 metres . |
| 27 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 28 | Ninth century records show that the Maharajah of greater Delhi had a very fine harem of 18 young and nubile wives , who lived in an enclosure of about 20 acres . |
| 29 | The field is estimated to have reserves of 700 billion cubic feet of gas and will have a life of about 20 years . |
| 30 | In the second and third years … drama , dance and music are taught together , but with three staff timetabled ; so at any one time we split the groups up we 've got group numbers of about 20 — three staff between two forms — and they 'll say work in drama on a theme for six weeks , then move on and explore that theme in music , then move on and explore that in dance . |