Example sentences of "[verb] about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen . |
| 2 | A total of 1,681 left-wing guerrillas , representing about 20 per cent of the forces of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) , reportedly handed over their weapons to members of the UN Observer Mission in El Salvador ( ONUSAL ) on June 30 in return for certificates identifying them as ex-combatants eligible for bank loans and training programmes . |
| 3 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 4 | Alpha is being developed for systems like the US Advanced Tactical Fighter , which has about 20 real-time computer systems on board , the NASA space station , and possibly the Strategic Defense Initiative . |
| 5 | Mr O'Rea , like many other farmers , has about 20 cows which produce calves as well as milk . |
| 6 | There is nothing wrong with being realistic and I suppose Scotland has about 20 or so players who could fit into the national side without weakening it , especially as we have recently lost a third of that national side . |
| 7 | The COBUILD corpus ( Sinclair , 1987a ) has about 20 million words and the American TEI corpus ( Walker , 1989 ) and British National Corpus ( BNC ) ( Leech , forthcoming ) are expected to be in excess of 100 million words . |
| 8 | Emptying hundreds of bins and walking about 20 miles . |
| 9 | At least 31 people were killed on Oct. 26 when an armed group numbering about 20 attacked a fishing village near the Cap Skirring tourist area , 600 km south of Dakar . |
| 10 | Their new life in the private sector , he says , ‘ adds about 20 profitable companies to the ranks of corporate donors , several of which have appointed community directors ’ . |
| 11 | He said the meeting , which had also been attended by the local policeman , Constable Mike Munro , had attracted about 20 villagers . |
| 12 | There were major advances some 60 000 and 40 000 years ago , but the greatest expanse of ice during this cycle occurred about 20 000 years ago ( Goldthwait et al . , |
| 13 | The Co-op even commissioned their own film in 1966 entitled The Coachbuilders which involved about 20 carriages being driven round Edinburgh 's New Town on a Sunday morning . |
| 14 | In fact , the repayment periods chosen by those considering small loan option averaged about 12 months , while repayment periods chosen by those considering options for large loans averaged about 20 months . |
| 15 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 16 | From behind us , from the Muslim district of Shiyah , came about 20 people , husbands and wives and a few girls in summer dresses and a man with two little boys walking beside him . |
| 17 | So far buildings have been acquired as the result of the Bradford efforts which are at present undergoing alterations and improvements which will eventually accommodate about 20 handicapped people plus staff . |
| 18 | Grand Met representatives met about 20 Darlington landlords last week . |
| 19 | Seventeenth July — I joined about 20 Commandos from the various units around the village on a trip to a quiet part of the beach a few miles from our front-line positions . |
| 20 | It costs about 20 to make a tonne of waste derived fuel pellets and these have about half the calorific value of coal . |
| 21 | Until 1929 des Forges and Harber give about 20 records involving about 27 birds . |
| 22 | The closure of Faskally in particular is controversial because the centre was bought about 20 years ago by the old Glasgow Corporation to give slum children a taste of adventure in the open air . |
| 23 | Michael Green , chairman of media group , Carlton Communications , yesterday sold about 20 per cent of his stake in the company for more than £10.5 million . |
| 24 | ‘ The goals are starting to come — but I could have had about 20 by now . ’ |
| 25 | Four companies have already signed up to the scheme , and the Centre has the capacity to look after three or four more — it has already had about 20 applications . |
| 26 | At this point Francis must have had about 20 seconds to live , a few more steps and he would have reached the other end which , for him , was the threshold of death . |
| 27 | We do put children out into playgrounds for a long time , those children that take lunch in school will spend about 20 per cent of the day in the playground . |
| 28 | That was shown about 20 years ago , shortly after the first voluntary code . |
| 29 | If no such upturn does occur we actually face about 20 years of demographic stability in respect of overall age structure , indeed probably the most stable 20 years of the entire twentieth century ( O'Higgins , 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Measuring about 20 cm ( 8 in ) across , but with tentacles over 1 m ( 3¼ ft ) long , it is translucent light blue and difficult to see . |