Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] about twenty " in BNC.
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1 | The splash was dusty but still visible and , without much trouble , I found the beginning of the trail about twenty feet straight ahead in the wood and followed it as easily through the tangled trees and undergrowth as on the day before . |
2 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
3 | Pulling down Anthony 's pants , Jerry Lewis whipped the boy about twenty times . |
4 | I then went to see three other patients and returned to review the child about twenty minutes later to find him totally at peace and asleep , with no evidence of any respiratory problem . |
5 | A grey Mercedes , parked on the pavement about twenty metres up the road . |
6 | To the fore of the courtyard about twenty male , mostly young , dancers shake their bodies rhythmically but independently as a man carrying a pot of burning incense weaves among them . |
7 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
8 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
9 | Actually it would be more accurate to call it a tutor ‘ hut ’ since our class is based in one of those ‘ temporary ’ classrooms that sprouted up around schools all over the country about twenty years ago . |
10 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
11 | After digging a trench about twenty feet through the mound , the side fell in and one of the labourers narrowly escaped with his life . |