Example sentences of "[noun] of [num] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three 16-man Sections ( see Appendix 2 ) were deployed further down the hill each sending out patrols of four or so men to scout the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | Farmers can use it only to graze sheep , in flocks of 200 or so ewes with their lambs in spring . |
| 3 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 4 | The walk was scheduled to depart from Green Park Tube , and when I arrived I found a group of thirty or so walkers already tapping their feet . |
| 5 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 6 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 7 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 8 | Scrambling the whole of its release schedule of 15 or so films into a sublimely muddled montage of fast edits and visual ‘ high 's , it 's incomprehensible but hypnotic . |
| 9 | Aileron forces are fine at low speeds , but as the IAS increases they get heavier , despite their balance tabs , until at 250 knots , using one 's biceps most efficiently , one can just achieve an acceptable roll-rate of sixty or so degrees per second to the left , while backhanded right rolls are truly slow rolls . |
| 10 | The 14 Felixstowe club members averaged 14 oz per man over the two legs to the average of four and half oz for the six Clacton members to take the cup . |
| 11 | In a centre of twenty or so pupils with three or four teaching staff , heads have tremendous influence even where , as at the Victoria Centre , they espouse democratic principles . |
| 12 | Polytechnics came into existence after 1966 , often resulting from the merging of two or more FE colleges . |
| 13 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 14 | Yet he appeared surprised to find in Kursk guberniia near the end of 1922 that even villages near to the Moscow railway line had received their last single copies some months earlier . |
| 15 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
| 16 | UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN . |