Example sentences of "[vb pp] about 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | The summons was heard as an ordinary Friday summons in the Commercial Court and occupied about 20 minutes . |
| 2 | He said the meeting , which had also been attended by the local policeman , Constable Mike Munro , had attracted about 20 villagers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 5 | Grand Met representatives met about 20 Darlington landlords last week . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The goals are starting to come — but I could have had about 20 by now . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That was shown about 20 years ago , shortly after the first voluntary code . |
| 12 | Given that the company received about 20 per cent of its profits from the government 's ‘ export compensation ’ , such acquiescence was not surprising . |
| 13 | Between June and September , his mother , Margie Coleman , in Birmingham , Alabama , received about 20 calls on her unlisted phone from men threatening to kill her son , to kidnap his wife and children and to harm her for taking them in . |
| 14 | Situated about 20 minutes walk from the centre of the highly popular Viareggio , the resort 's numerous bars , its café and restaurants surrounded by tropical plants and flowers , its fashionable shops and other amenities are also close by . |
| 15 | Below Growth and budding of a graptolite colony , enlarged about 20 times |
| 16 | In 1936 the Ministry of Labour carried out a pioneer survey of private sector employers ' pension scheme membership , finding that women comprised about 20 per cent of the total membership of around 1.6 million persons . |
| 17 | Police yesterday arrested about 20 Tibetan women demonstrating outside the Chinese embassy and demanding independence . |
| 18 | Highly selective vagotomy was introduced about 20 years ago and hence any cancer risk should become apparent in the next few years . |
| 19 | Cranking the aircraft around in order to spot the rest of the attacking aircraft and determine the damage caused to the target , the Blenheim stayed in the Bremen area for 10 minutes , attracting a great deal of flak and being hit about 20 times . |
| 20 | Police said the woman , aged about 20 , could be prosecuted if Jack ‘ felt threatened ’ . |
| 21 | Five students , aged about 20 , were filming the public for a project when they were approached by a man who asked to borrow the Ferguson Videostar camcorder . |
| 22 | ‘ I have aged about 20 years and I feel exhausted . |
| 23 | The robber , aged about 20 and wearing a green hat , escaped in a G-registered burgundy-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier and is believed to have had a trilby-hatted accomplice in the car . |
| 24 | The 14-year-old boy was walking the alsatian along a path between Park Avenue and Penparcau , Aberystwyth , Powys , when the attacker , who was aged about 20 , approached him and asked for money . |
| 25 | Mr Mair led an earlier £550,000 management and employee buy-out of the company in 1984 and the workforce retained about 20 per cent of the equity after the Drambuie takeover . |
| 26 | Joseph Rank had his first mill in Sproatley and the house where he lived is still outwardly the same , but the mill foundation was removed about 20 years ago when a modern housing estate was built . |
| 27 | ‘ She would misinterpret everything you said to her and she had to be reassured about 20 times over . |
| 28 | Margaret , a member of the Suffolk and North Essex Humanists , has conducted about 20 humanist funerals in the past 18 months , despite her own struggles against cancer and the post-viral fatigue syndrome ME . |
| 29 | On an SE/30 — a 68030 machine with a maths coprocessor — myoglobin ( 2658 atoms ) approached the upper limit for interactive manipulation and a monochrome drawing on the screen required about 20 sec ( wireframe ) , 1–3/4 min ( ball and stick ) and three min ( shaded space-filling ) ; the times tripled on a smaller SE system . |