Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] twenty [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After pressing for about twenty seconds you remove your hand and , as you do so , you remove the coin but take it upwards so it can not be seen , look at the forehead as if the coin is still there and start everyone counting . |
| 2 | Looking for about twenty minutes or so . |
| 3 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 4 | The declining importance of religion in social life in general , and in particular the declining influence of Christianity on the great moral questions of the day was ( and is ) the spur to action that has kept the NVALA going for over twenty years . |
| 5 | March , which is based at Bicester , had been competing in Grand Prix racing for over twenty years . |
| 6 | This is a series of square cloth-covered books , now amounting to about twenty volumes , in which every detail of every Lagerfeld day is collected in the form of polaroids , clippings , notes , little drawings . |
| 7 | At the end of the record , when the stylus is approaching the label , the groove is travelling at about twenty inches per second , yet the sound quality is very similar . |
| 8 | The General Household Survey 's special analysis of carers in 1985 ( Green , 1988 ) suggested that : 1.7 million adults are caring for someone living with them ; 1.4 million are spending at least twenty hours per week doing so ; and 3.4 million are bearing the main responsibility for the care of someone . |