Example sentences of "[coord] about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tell the audience that Claudia Cohn-Casson , born 1912 , is believed to have died in Auschwitz on or about 20 April 1945 , fifteen days before Germany surrendered . |
| 2 | Between 1979 and 1990 , 1,250,000 council houses , or about 20 per cent of the total stock , was sold to sitting tenants . |
| 3 | This challenge appears , however , to have been admirably met in Lewis and Harris , where we were told there are about 400 teachers and about 20 doctors . |
| 4 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 5 | The family jointly owned 12,000 dunums of agricultural land and about 20 properties in Jaffa . |
| 6 | But Campese admits to achieving millionaire status five years and about 20 tries ago . |
| 7 | This followed an attack by 200 guerrillas on a television station owned by Ricardo Belmont Cassinelli , the leading candidate for mayor of Lima , in the course of which three guerrillas were killed by police and about 20 people were wounded and 150 arrested . |
| 8 | The Copts formed about 10 per cent of Egypt 's population overall and about 20 per cent of the population of Upper Egypt . |
| 9 | Only about 10 per cent of expenditure went on services that were clearly pro poor and about 20 per cent were biased toward those services ( e.g. education , roads , leisure services ) that favoured the better off . |
| 10 | In 1982 , for example , among the chairmen of INI firms were 16 ex-ministers , 10 members of parliament and about 20 senior civil servants linked with the governing party UCD and with the Francoist regime ( El Socialista , 15–21 September 1982 ) . |
| 11 | Many had considerable reading and writing skills , but about 20 per cent were recent immigrants , often with language difficulties . |