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Example sentences for "about twenty"

  • It was in the afternoon of the third day that I ran on to an Indian trail that appeared from the number of horse-tracks to be about twenty in the band.

  • We were not just able to tell the number in the band, but thought there must be about twenty, and they were driving some loose horses.

  • I took my stand and had not been there long until I saw, just behind, in about twenty feet of me, a huge grizzly bear coming for me on his hind feet.

  • The first day on our return trip, just about noon, as we were looking for a place to stop for lunch, we were discovered by about twenty Indians.

  • It was written a short time before his martyrdom, about twenty-eight years after our Lord's Ascension.

  • He wrote in Greek, about twenty-four years after our Lord's Ascension.

  • Epistle was written in Italy, and probably at Rome, about twenty-nine years after our Lord's Ascension.

  • It was written at Ephesus, about twenty-three years after our Lord's Ascension.

  • About twenty-eight assembled, and we began service with a hymn; then I read the evening prayers from my Ojebway prayer-book, and at the close of the lesson began the baptismal service.

  • We camped one night on the road, and got home in about twenty-two hours from the time of starting, after ten days' absence.

  • Meeting to-night at Peter Jones'--about twenty- four present.

  • About twenty-five sat down at a time, the bride and bridegroom at the head.

  • In about twenty minutes we reached the summit, and looked around us, but no sea was visible: a black moor, indistinctly seen, seemed to spread on every side.

  • Servian officials preparatory to crossing the Servian and Bulgarian frontier about twenty kilometres to the southward.

  • The caravanserai proprietor approaches me, and winking mysteriously, intimates that by going outside and riding for the edification of the new arrivals I will be pretty certain to get a present of a keran (about twenty cents).

  • In the morning I obtain breakfast and manage to escape from town without attracting a crowd of more than a couple of hundred people; a remarkable occurrence in its way, since Erzingan contains a population of about twenty thousand.

  • It is six hours distant from Yuzgat to the large village of Koelme, as distance is measured here, or about twenty-three English miles; but the road is mostly ridable, and I roll into the village in about three hours and a half.

  • They had been absent, therefore, about twenty-one days.

  • On the southern extremity of the island where De Monts placed his cannon, about twenty-five years ago a workman in excavating threw out five small cannon-balls, one of which was obtained by Peter E.

  • Alfonse says; "Beyond the cape of Noroveregue descends the river of the said Noroveregue, which is about twenty-five leagues from the cape.

  • To have religion you must first have a country, and if Ireland was not made joyful Ireland would become a Protestant country in about twenty-five years.

  • He was due at the meeting in about twenty minutes; the notes of his speech still lay on the table, and he gathered them up and put them in his pocket, and drawing a sheet of paper towards him, he began a hurried letter.

  • In order to avoid trouble with baggage and passports in Rome, we determined to book through for Naples, making the trip in about twenty hours.

  • When he had reduced the radius of his circle to about twenty-five feet, he struck a tremendous pace through the water.

  • The principal table extended lengthwise of the hall, and was a little elevated above the other tables, which stretched across, about twenty in all.

  • He said the garrison now here consists only of about twenty men, all of whom had served in the Crimea, like himself.

  • B--The Castle is about twenty minutes' drive from Markton Station, to which there are numerous convenient trains from all parts of the county.

  • Her terms would be about twenty-five guineas.

  • In about twenty minutes De Stancy came out again and turned back in the direction of the town, till Dare was revealed to him on his left hand.

  • With some difficulty I obtained a large dugout boat with outriggers, to take me over a distance of about twenty miles.

  • The Simunjon enters the Sadong River about twenty miles up.

  • To do this it is evident that each married couple must average three children who live to be married at the age of about twenty-five.

  • An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

  • The limit of vision at sea, being a distance of about twenty miles.

  • A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents.

  • We do in the yearly bill reduce the casualties to about twenty- four, being such as may be discerned by common sense, and without art, conceiving that more will but perplex and imbroil the account.

  • The other showeth what number of people died at a medium of two years, indifferently taken, at about twenty years' distance from each other.

  • I see no reason, but the second state (when each family is charged with the culture of about twenty-four acres) will best promote the same.

  • One evening at dusk Delaney's Raiders, about twenty-five strong, took advantage of the absence of most of us drawing rations, to make a rush for Marion.

  • About twenty of us had devoted our nights for over a week to the prolongation of a burrow.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about dark; about eighty; about five; about fourteen; about half; about latitude; about noon; about one; about six; about sixteen; about their; about them; about time; about twenty; about twice; about two; about two inches long; about two miles from; about what; faithful unto; full grown; good price; other colonies; pass that; tiers etat; your grandfather