Usages of veinte
Tengo veinte dólares y él tiene veintiuno.
I have twenty dollars and he has twenty-one.
Somos veinte personas en la familia.
We are twenty people in the family.
La reunión es el veinte de abril.
The meeting is on the twentieth of April.
Ya son las cuatro menos veinte.
It is already twenty to four.
La empresa fabrica juguetes de madera desde hace veinte años.
The company has been manufacturing wooden toys for twenty years.
Hace veinte minutos que miro el eclipse con el telescopio.
I have been watching the eclipse with the telescope for twenty minutes.
Llevamos veinte años sin organizar un reencuentro.
We haven't organized a reunion in twenty years.
No tienes arrugas, pero llevo veinte años sin verte.
You don't have wrinkles, but I haven't seen you in twenty years.
Llevo veinte años sin ver a mi querido compañero.
I haven't seen my dear classmate in twenty years.
Ese grupo tiene menos de veinte personas.
That group has fewer than twenty people.
A veces se añora la vitalidad que se tenía a los veinte años.
Sometimes one longs for the vitality that one had at twenty years old.
El tanque de los tiburones viene a perder veinte litros de agua al día.
The shark tank loses roughly twenty liters of water a day.
Es que llevo veinte minutos sin avanzar en la fila esta; es agónico.
It's just that I haven't moved forward in this line for twenty minutes; it is agonizing.
El autobús se demora veinte minutos.
The bus takes twenty minutes.
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