Example sentences of "perhaps [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 2 | Indeed , by the thirties his family was almost certainly the largest landowner in Iran , owning perhaps one-sixth of the usable land , Apart from the , Rexa Shah undertook very little effective agricultural reform . |
| 3 | The result is perhaps one of the best insider looks at Concorde yet available . |
| 4 | I think wind power is perhaps one of the alternative energy sources which is erm nearest to being able to be applied and utilised immediately . |
| 5 | Out here , that meant the Maniax were back , or perhaps one of the minor biker gangcults , Satan 's Stormtroopers , the Apple Valley Hogfreakers . |
| 6 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 7 | By the 1930s at least two-thirds of public schoolboys were circumcised , ( compared to only one-tenth of working-class boys ) , and by then perhaps one-third of the male population was circumcised , with very little medical justification . |