TWENTY in Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions

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... twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps. 12&12 p.177, Tradition Ten

A corporation director who had just voted a company expenditure of a hundred thousand dollars would appear at an A.A. business meeting and blow his top over an outlay of twenty-five dollars' worth of needed postage stamps.

... twenty-five years and retired at the age ... BB p.32, More About Alcoholism

An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.

... twenty-four hours a day in and through ... BB p.16, Bill's Story

Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.

... twenty-four hours ahead. BB p.86, Into Action

On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead.

... twenty per cent a year. BB xx, Foreword to Second Edition

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At present, our membership is pyramiding at the rate of about twenty per cent a year.

Twenty-two, and a veteran of foreign wars, ... BB p.1, Bill's Story

Twenty-two, and a veteran of foreign wars, I went home at last.

... twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got ... 12&12 p.168, Tradition Eight

Then we saw that if a hardworking secretary answered the phone dozens of times a day, listened to twenty wailing wives, arranged hospitalization and got sponsorship for ten newcomers, and was gently diplomatic with the irate drunk who complained about the job she was doing and how she was overpaid, then such a person could surely not be called a professional A.A.

... twenty years. BB p.33, More About Alcoholism

Several of our crowd, men of thirty or less, had been drinking only a few years, but they found themselves as helpless as those who had been drinking twenty years.

... twenty years of drunkenness would make a ... BB p.83, Into Action

We must remember that ten or twenty years of drunkenness would make a skeptic out of anyone.

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