toko,
You could create a variable 'counter' with a value of 20, and include this as a condition on your event;
e.g. System every .08 seconds & counter > 0.
Then you'd just need to subtract 1 from counter every second, and when it gets to zero, your event would no longer fire!
Hope that helps
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