Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life proceeds at a gentle , traditional pace today for the 500 or so residents of Cotherstone Kelvin Walker runs his general store and petrol pumps ( and taxi service ) the Post Office also sells the superb Cotherstone cheese , and there are two excellent public houses . |
| 2 | Trinity College at Cambridge can claim more members of the Order than all the 30 or so colleges at Oxford put together ( 25 against 20 ) . |
| 3 | The booklet made clear that only households with children , who had no home of their own , or elderly people needing warden-assisted accommodation , had any chance of being rehoused . |
| 4 | The line reach Garth in May , Llanwrtyd in June 1867 and finally Llandovery in October 1868 , having traversed the two most significant engineering problems on this section — the Sugar Loaf tunnel and Cynghordy Viaduct . |
| 5 | If this is so , is it not strange that already 2% of physicians carrying out LAWER did not consult anyone ? |
| 6 | Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science . |
| 7 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Busy accountants would obviously like to save the 100 or so hours of training time that structured CPE can save them ( through the difference between obtaining the recommended target of 150 CPE points from 50 structured hours or 150 unstructured hours ) . |
| 10 | But the invitation has now been widened to include 100 or so members of parliament , partly because of their new willingness to negotiate , partly to counter-balance the heads of 11 of Russia 's 19 semi-autonomous republics who have already rejected the draft . |
| 11 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 12 | The impressions gained from the WHO collaborative studies on the relationship between maternal age and the capability of fetus to survive the early and intermediately period of gestation are supported by more reliable national data from a European country . |
| 13 | Only 5ft 8ins tall and under 10st in weight , he covers the ground quicker than anyone I have recently seen , with the exception of one he resembles , South Africa 's Jonty Rhodes . |
| 14 | After the nest is complete and around 30cm in diameter , the male nudges the female under it and egg laying begins . |
| 15 | I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer . |
| 16 | These apparent food sensitivities were often not persistent and only 24% of patients identified the same food on rechallenge , and 15% of patients had positive double blind challenge . |
| 17 | In return for permission to reside on Henderson , Smiley Ratliff has promised to provide the inhabitants of nearby Pitcairn Island with the use of his proposed airstrip , a launch to ferry them the 90 or so miles between Pitcairn and Henderson . |
| 18 | Indeed , there is a pressure group to get more women MPs , called the 300 Group , which seeks 300 out of the 600 or so seats in Parliament for women . |
| 19 | A new entrant , joining in July 1960 , had devilled for all but one of the dozen or so lawyers by Christmas . |
| 20 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 21 | Apart from having to compete with the other half a dozen or so suppliers like Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Sun , USL has no real marketing experience . |
| 22 | Much of the material has been lent by the Terra Foundation for the Arts and consists of ninety or so paintings by William Merrit Chase , William Leroy Metcalf , Frederick C. Frieseke , John Singer Sargent , Theodore Robinson , Childe Hassam , Mary Cassatt , Whistler and Winslow Homer . |
| 23 | Interflora florists can send flowers worldwide so the team at the Royal were quite unperturbed that about 10% of showgoers are international visitors . |
| 24 | I think it 's true to say that , certainly at my school , about the age of fourteen of fifteen the girls suddenly decide that they ca n't do maths and there 's no way that they could understand anything scientific , but that , I think , is a lot deeper than just encouragement at school anyway . |
| 25 | After retirement these expectations may no longer even be relevant , yet habits die hard and probably patterns of caring have already been established which will go on exerting an influence even though there is no longer any need . |
| 26 | So I live with a constant and uncomely reminder of folly and failure , and no doubt it does me good . |
| 27 | A shift to kerosene is very costly and nowadays fuel for cooking may absorb to up to 15–20 per cent of a poor household 's income ( see Schroeder 1977 , Ives 1981 ) . |
| 28 | In any particular society , real life suggests to us that the answers are neither black nor white but rather shades of grey . |
| 29 | It is also questionable whether all types of organisations lend themselves to empowerment . |
| 30 | The 3,000 or so subscribers to Mountain will help to bolster High 's circulation figures with the added hope that when the ex- Mountain subscriptions expire , some will renew them with High . |