Example sentences of "twenty [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the twenty or so men and women in the Cabinet are well known to one another and have worked together over some years . |
| 2 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 3 | The maximum penalty remains life imprisonment , although almost all the cases each year ( twenty or so ) are dealt with non-custodially , usually by a probation order . |
| 4 | What his office lacks in staff by comparison — he has a mere twenty or so — it makes up for in influence . |
| 5 | Twenty or so young adults armed with pickaxe handles set up a road-block sealing off Sidi Hasan , the Zuwaya ward in the south-west of the town , for two days . |
| 6 | In the following years other small cohorts followed , and twenty or so girls above the age of twelve attended the school in 1979 . |
| 7 | Her first dismayed impression of a milling crowd crystallised into twenty or so individuals sporting cameras with huge zoom lenses , tripods and all sorts of contraptions . |
| 8 | Incidentally , if you 're stuck without a copy of this song , it 's available on a CD released in 1988 , a compilation of some twenty or so of Gene 's recorded tracks in the ‘ Rock And Roll Masters ’ series from EMI Records , catalogue number CDP 7903282 . |
| 9 | Order can be overestimated ; the next twenty or so years saw repeated squabbles among the Normans , in which , after William 's death in 1087 , Sussex played a vital part . |
| 10 | Twenty or so low castes accounted for between one-fifth and one-quarter of the Sinhalese population ( Appendix C ) . |
| 11 | Such states were a majority of the twenty or so units making up political Europe . |
| 12 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 13 | Some twenty or so students completed the first course , and it has continued every year since then . |
| 14 | They are certainly artists of proven worth , but who came to the fore twenty or so years ago . |
| 15 | In Mr Ainslie 's opinion , the acquisition of the collection had protected the market from a ‘ huge onslaught ’ of works by twenty or so artists and the operation had been done in an ‘ intelligent , systematic way ’ . |
| 16 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 17 | This order specifies how the twenty or so different amino acids are arranged in a protein , how much is to be made , and when . |
| 18 | In the pub were twenty or so other walkers , similarly soaked , all crowding round a massive wood stove . |
| 19 | twenty or so . |
| 20 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |
| 21 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 22 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
| 23 | got about twenty or so . |
| 24 | And the older members of the staff , and there were n't many , I mean the total s council office staff was only about thi was twenty or so , and erm more men were employed outside , than anything . |
| 25 | ‘ All right , keep it down , ’ he said , raising his voice , looking out at the twenty or so uniformed and plain clothes men seated in the room . |
| 26 | I practically fell through the door to the balcony , shut it after me , turned left , scrambled the twenty or so feet to the door in the south-west corner and plunged through , closing this too . |
| 27 | I shoved twenty or so into the pouch . |
| 28 | Big brother was staying in Islington , making a living from TV comedy shows by being one of the twenty or so names that zip up the screen under where it says Additional Material By : , and trying to be a stand-up comic . |
| 29 | I found some much-Tippexed poems typed on foolscap , plus about twenty or so printed A4 pages which looked like they were part of a play or film script . |
| 30 | I doubt he ever harmed a soul in his twenty or so years . |