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 .
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