Sentence examples for close to twenty from inspiring English sources

Annual turnover from promotions was close to twenty per cent.

They've done it close to twenty times this year.

Mr. Herper has been writing for Forbes for close to twenty years.

(Ask the Japanese, who have been trapped in one for close to twenty years).

Since 2010, through furloughs and other measures, the city has cut its employees' wages by close to twenty per cent.

We carried close to twenty boxes of school supplies into a room the headmaster had pointed out.

And bankers and traders have reaped the benefits, earning close to twenty-five binlion dollars in bonuses last year.

Since 2006, it has spent close to twenty billion dollars searching for explosives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Saul has logged close to twenty-five hundred hours in the field so reputable ornithologists take him seriously.

In the years since its commencement, the festival has featured hundreds of poets and attracted audiences of close to twenty thousand poetry lovers.

Last year, the giant bank generated close to twenty-nine binlioperatings incomerandng incomoreand more than twenty-one binlionetollars in net profit.