Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] or [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's local councils charge £6-10 a ton to put solid waste in landfills : a price , say the commercial firms , that does not reflect capital investment or the sums that must be et aside to ensure a landfill is properly maintained during its 30 years or so of life . |
| 2 | To accommodate it on the upflow tube we 've had to trim off another inch or so of piping with the hacksaw . |
| 3 | Amid the stark , and in places green-hued contours of the half mile or so of cliff and tumbled boulders that is Froggatt , there exists a wealth of entertaining and varied climbing . |
| 4 | Leave another yard or so of rope above the bottle . |
| 5 | Meanwhile make gravy by stirring flour into 2 tbs or so of pan juices over heat , with mushrooms still in pan . |
| 6 | THE retinal fovea , which corresponds to the central degree or so of vision , is spatially over-represented in the visual cortex . |
| 7 | An extra 150mm or so of handle length meant that even our taller testers were able to work comfortably . |
| 8 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 9 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 10 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 11 | Although mature horses may harbour a few adult worms , heavy burdens are usually confined to yearlings and to foals , which become infected from the first month or so of life , and infection is maintained largely by seasonal transmission between these groups of young animals . |
| 12 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 13 | For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring , I can not say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all . |
| 14 | During the final hour or so of cooking put the raisins and currants previously well washed , in a separate oven pot , and with water to cover them , to bake . |
| 15 | After two days or so of ice-breaking we have found them all pleasant and cooperative , and eager to take advantage of the books , etc. that we have brought . |
| 16 | She let out her pent-up breath in a loud gasp of relief ; then she bent over the handlebars and sent the bike whizzing as fast as she could pedal it across the remaining hundred yards or so of field . |
| 17 | And if that boisterous Channel and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us , I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt ; and then I 've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly . ’ |
| 18 | Frederick had true imperial blood in his veins as the son of the Emperor Henry VI and the grandson of Barbarossa and he could not allow the narrow strip of fifty miles or so of corridor land to impede his ambitions . |