Example sentences of "[was/were] about twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were about twenty yards from the house , Jackie signalled them to crouch down behind a large bush covered in strange waxen blooms , like roses , only they were n't . |
| 2 | When we were about twenty yards away from them an old woman turned and saw us. I just had time to see the panic on her face before the driver applied the brakes . |
| 3 | There were about twenty applications for the editor 's job , which were marked up under headings of ‘ politics ’ ( most got zero ) and ‘ experience ’ . |
| 4 | There were about twenty of them . |
| 5 | It was moved by Francis Maginn who told his audience that in almost every state of America , in addition to a National Society , there was an Association of deaf mutes organised and officered by the prominent deaf themselves , whereas in the United Kingdom , where there were about twenty thousand deaf , there was neither a regional nor a national organisation . |
| 6 | Was I think he said it were about twenty six pound a week for that time you see ? |
| 7 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 8 | There were about twenty of us , all told ; mostly McHoans but with a smattering of civilians . |
| 9 | ‘ The footprints were about twenty metres from the body , and nobody thought of looking so far away , ’ Mortimer replied . |
| 10 | There were about twenty names ; some with several dates beside them . |
| 11 | The the evening I was there there were about twenty five people in the room and people were falling asleep . |
| 12 | ‘ We were about twenty minutes altogether from the point where we realized they could n't get us down to the time when we stepped on to the roof . |
| 13 | There were about twenty tents and makeshift lean-tos in a semi-circle spanning about forty yards of the fence . |
| 14 | Poor Steve walking into the meeting at St James and there were about twenty people in the room and you said , This is the green meeting is n't it ? |
| 15 | There were , there were about twenty . |
| 16 | Giant bub I know they were about twenty nine pound I saw . |
| 17 | There 's two blokes , that , in there , in the fish shop the one in the blue , the tall one , eighteen , they were about twenty three |
| 18 | Eventually , on a day when the visibility at Bourn was about twenty yards , the powers-that-be decided that four Mosquitoes from our squadron would make the attempt to take-off for an undisclosed destination in France , each carrying a 4,000lb bomb . |
| 19 | It look a little longer to plan how she was to make the journey to Chertsey , which she had discovered was about twenty miles away . |
| 20 | I think I was about twenty one several years ago now |
| 21 | It was about twenty years ago I met Compeyson . |
| 22 | Up to the eyes in snow , up to the toilet which was about twenty yards away , that was where lived then , in the house where Building Society is now , lived there for thirty four year . |
| 23 | And then when I was about twenty four , twenty four or five I 'd got twenty men working for me , so er we were n't doing so bad . |
| 24 | When she was about twenty , she worked in an office , one of two women among about thirty men . |
| 25 | When Edward was about twenty he had once intercepted the look exchanged by a young married couple . |
| 26 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 27 | That was about twenty years ago almost twenty years ago , so where they buy it now I do n't know . |
| 28 | So I had to work with him till I was about twenty or twenty-one or something like that , you know . |
| 29 | I thought he was about twenty eight . |
| 30 | It was about twenty yards in diameter . |