Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 2 | Two hours before kick off Chief Inspector Tony Judge briefs some of the 100 or so officers . |
| 3 | Some of the 150 or so places for new postgraduate students are in shared rooms . |
| 4 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 5 | This involves a radical restructuring of the organisation , with devolution into local authority or private management of up to 203 of the 350 or so historic sites now in English Heritage 's care ; the eventual redundancy of nearly 500 staff ( more than one quarter of the total ) ; and the handover of powers to influence decisions on Grade II listed buildings in London , powers inherited in 1986 from the now defunct Greater London Council . |
| 6 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 7 | By the outbreak of the Second World War , very few of the 500 or so ‘ special agreements ’ made with voluntary bodies had been implemented , and the 1944 Act allowed for their revival . |
| 8 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 9 | This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale . |
| 10 | That is a question many Regulars ask about each of the 75,000 or so volunteers who make up today 's TA . |
| 11 | But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator . |
| 12 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 13 | From the ivory tower of a teaching hospital this may seem unfair , but Dixon may be surprised to learn that of the 60 or so practitioners participating in the Gloucester Independent Dentists ' Group , fewer than half were drawing more than 80% of the government 's target net income before the reduction in fees , which , incidentally , was 17.5% gross rather than the publicised 7.5% . |
| 14 | But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates . |
| 15 | Conclusions about the lack of success with young offenders have been transferred to quite different groups such as the elderly or mentally handicapped as well as to children and young people in care generally . |
| 16 | Many of the chalets are set on a hillside reached by steps — not ideal for the infirm or very young children . |
| 17 | But every minute in his consulting room I was conscious of the dozen or more , far sicker than me , waiting outside . |
| 18 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 19 | When selecting other census counts to profile a local market , it is important to choose the most useful of the 10,000 or so available counts . |
| 20 | The proportion has changed very little in the 50 or so years that women have had the vote , and the current number is actually one less than that in 1945 . |
| 21 | Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian . |
| 22 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 23 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 24 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 25 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
| 26 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 27 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 28 | The spectators were all either lining the 18th hole or watching the drama on one of the hundred or so TV sets in the Hospitality Units . |
| 29 | Additionally , almost all students make use at some time or other of one of the thirty or so departmental micro laboratories , with about 900 micro computers to choose from , ranging from standard BBCs to powerful SUN and Apollo workstations , and MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |
| 30 | Additionally , almost all students make use at some time or other of one of the thirty or so departmental micro laboratories , with about 900 micro computers to choose from , ranging from standard BBCs to powerful SUN and Apollo workstations , and from MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |