Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [num] [conj] [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 | That is a question many Regulars ask about each of the 75,000 or so volunteers who make up today 's TA . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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% . |
| 13 | Here you can find childrens books , an Arthur Askey annual from the 1940s and surely the ultimate dirty book , a 1935 War Office Drainage Manual . |
| 14 | But every minute in his consulting room I was conscious of the dozen or more , far sicker than me , waiting outside . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With such a fine account of the most famous of the five and similarly committed ones of the others , this is a superb package . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The friendship patterns which will be important in the fifties and later are settled , faults are forgiven and relationships cemented . |
| 21 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 22 | The IBM concurrent copy , sequential data striping , enhanced dynamic cache management and search assist will be available for the 7980-3 as well as the 7690 in the first quarter 1994 . |
| 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 | In the other compartment Sherry and Galef put a ‘ tutor ’ bird — one of the four that already knew how to open the milk containers — and a milk container . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 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 MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |