Example sentences of "twenty or [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the following years other small cohorts followed , and twenty or so girls above the age of twelve attended the school in 1979 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |
| 5 | In a centre of twenty or so pupils with three or four teaching staff , heads have tremendous influence even where , as at the Victoria Centre , they espouse democratic principles . |