Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [verb] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the small veneered wooden counter a dozen or so keys dangled from hooks on a numbered board , together with a few dog-eared official-looking proclamations . |
| 2 | Erato 's main mid-price label is ‘ Emeraude ’ ( DDD ) — initially a dozen or so titles varying from Corelli and Charpentier to Grieg and Tchaikovsky , with established ‘ Erato ’ names such as Schimone , Koopman , Paillard and Guschbauer . |
| 3 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 4 | Among the 50 or so battlefields to choose from are : Wellington 's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign , the cowboys and Indians of America 's Wild West , and the Battle of the Somme . |
| 5 | But reserve is not the same as contestation , and people linked by descent were bound by their opposition to others , had a solidarity based on common ownership and defence , which seemed stronger than day-today resentments arising from a father 's control of his sons . |