Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 2 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 3 | The idea that dinosaurs simply radiated into the ecological niches that had already been vacated , and that mammals I 30 million or so years later did the same thing after the dinosaurs had departed , has profound philosophical implications . |
| 4 | A man who led Spurs to the League and Cup double , some thirty or so years ago . |
| 5 | Built of honey-coloured Cotswold stone , some hundred or so years ago , it had a beautiful matching tiled roof , mottled with a patina of lichen and moss . |
| 6 | He then waved us towards a table where large fluted glasses of champagne were already poured , and Toby 's experienced eye reckoned that there were sufficient reserves of his favourite tipple to get the three dozen or so visitors totally blotto several times over . |
| 7 | As the weekend progressed , that was quickly reduced to first three , first two and then winners only . |