Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] or [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 32 | Early botanists had based their accounts either upon brief visits or else upon information or specimens provided by others . |
| 33 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 34 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 35 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 36 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 37 | Cos I got , er when I bought my pot pourri there was a little bottle or more like oil , you know , like how your mum |
| 38 | Secondly , its direct effect on sexual activity is such that a man may obtain an erection ( or a woman may become " prepared " for sexual intercourse by dilation of the vagina , protrusion of the clitoris and the other numerous changes which make coitus comfortable and pleasant ) with no physical stimulation at all ; simply by action from the brain — seeing and being close to an attractive member of the opposite sex , looking at pornographic material or simply by fantasy or " thinking about it " . |
| 39 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 40 | Often this is not the case and many animals die during long journeys or afterwards in quarantine . |
| 41 | 59% of elderly carers spend 50 hours or more per week caring . |
| 42 | ‘ The pattern of study leave block release — does n't lend itself to the smaller offices or indeed to business organisations . |
| 43 | Malpass had made it across the street , about eighty feet or so in front of Armstrong . |
| 44 | Under many circumstances this would be looked upon with some suspicion — giving rise to accusations of severe oligopoly or even near monopoly . |
| 45 | In France the more well-to-do cultivators ( those who paid 50 livres or more in taille ) were exempt from militia service , as were the servants of nobles or clerics , though exemptions of this kind were increasingly cut down as the century went on . |
| 46 | If approved for a baby , go on to waiting list to be ‘ matched ’ — may wait up to 3 years or more for placement |
| 47 | Despite popular mythology concerning ‘ evil ’ and vicious species that track down their victims ruthlessly and mercilessly , the reality is that no venom , no poison , no bite , no sting , is ever administered except under extreme provocation or simply by accident , unless the victim is either a potential prey or a rival belonging to the same species . |
| 48 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 49 | How can this be done if the patient is 50 miles or so from home ? |
| 50 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 51 | Consultation with the CEO is required only where the post involves work of 16 hours or more per week . |
| 52 | They are fifteen acres or more in size ; they are understocked — compared with other waters ; and there is an abundance of natural food . |
| 53 | A line of watchfires stretched away into the night , the nearest heaped into a massive cone , twelve feet or more in height , furiously ablaze , devouring the chill moisture from the night air . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | The results , based on replies from nearly 16 0000 schoolchildren , aged 8 to 20 , in the counties of Cumbria and Tyne and Wear , show that 17 per cent of the children smoke one cigarette or more per week . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | This blanket term covers the ‘ blues ’ at one end of the spectrum ( affecting between 70 and 80 per cent of all women in the first week or so after birth ) to the post-puerperal psychosis which temporarily hospitalizes three in every thousand mothers . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Assume first that I 2 is one track or less in extent . |
| 60 | For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring , I can not say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all . |