Example sentences of "[vb past] about twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | To their surprise several figures , Grant estimated about twenty , filed out from the dark treeline onto the overgrown verge and began to move towards them . |
| 2 | Te first breakdown came about twenty minutes into the play . |
| 3 | As a consequence wives in social class I and II in 1986 produced their first child when they were more than four years older than wives in social class IV and V. From the 1930s until the 1970s the average couple 's first baby arrived about twenty months after their marriage . |
| 4 | The only trouble is , it 's sporned so many , I think they got about twenty eight industrial groups ! |
| 5 | erm n they wo n't buy disks , they got about twenty sort of faculty heads |
| 6 | Oh I ca n't tell you that I would n't never discuss things like that , until I got about twenty five , you know neighbours or not , and I said why did they call him ? |
| 7 | Well they should take them off , only got about twenty ships left . |
| 8 | They I think they got about twenty per cent bigger . |
| 9 | The classic example of AGR failure , the Dungeness B plant on the Kent coast , eventually took about twenty years to finish , cost £3.5 billion to build ( at 1988 prices ) — roughly five times its original estimate — and has never operated at even half its intended capacity . |
| 10 | According to the packet , the chicken Kievs only took about twenty minutes in a hot oven . |
| 11 | I can only really remember one occasion when my husband knew that I was I was taking Pills at the time , I think I took about twenty eight in one night . |
| 12 | Blew about twenty families to bits and sent a shocking number of people scurrying away without their parents or their children . |
| 13 | I did about twenty , because I thought well we do n't normally sort of adv scatter more than |
| 14 | Good , , Mark asked me how old he was , and I said about twenty nine . |
| 15 | I did n't know you said about twenty past . |
| 16 | I continued knitting until I had about twenty centimetres , eight inches , and removed the stitches from the machine . |
| 17 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 18 | every time I got to them they had about twenty odd teachers there at the |
| 19 | right , now , if you had about twenty thousand pounds to spend on a car Dave , what would you buy ? , no seriously , I mean if you were just like , start , no , actually no that 's the wrong thing to say , what looks really smart ? |
| 20 | The German shelling lasted about twenty minutes , one gun continued to fire , starting with a clear crack , then the sound of the shell passing over , followed by the explosion as it hit the ground . |
| 21 | The mortaring lasted about twenty minutes . |
| 22 | A huge roadster stood about twenty yards away . |