Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you hear it said that we are going to live with stable currencies or even with a single currency for Europe ; that recovery will be slow ; that inflation will stay down while interest rates stay up — poison for precious metals . |
| 2 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 3 | Charles Roe had , in places , taken his mine down some 188 feet or so below the old 17C. workings , themselves about 181 ft. deep from surface ; and had worked along the strike of the Bonsor Vein for perhaps 150 fathoms . |
| 4 | Such leases are generally either very badly converted English leases or else in the form of stale Scottish styles , unchanged by time or circumstance . |
| 5 | Crossing the garden became a frequent pleasure as the five comfortable apartments , named after French regions — ours was Bordeaux — are in a recently converted timbered building 30 yards or so from the house . |
| 6 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 7 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 8 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 9 | The territorial spread and regional significance , up to 30 miles or so beyond the LCC boundary , now provided the occasion for a planning study of seminal importance , updating that by Unwin of ten years past . |
| 10 | It said the victims succumbed in gardening allotments , rural areas or simply on the street . |
| 11 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 12 | Lithological units of 100 feet or less in the Permian of western Canada , have been shown to persist over areas up to 180 000 square miles . |
| 13 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 14 | It 's alw always very useful that er erm if we have to people have to ask us to wait around for them for five or six weeks or sometimes on a three monthly er er resignation thing it er |
| 15 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 17 | It will hover , and dependent on wind strength , the lines will be at 85 degrees or so to the ground , the kite stationary nearly overhead if it is a good performer . |
| 18 | This rugged piece of coastline , stretching for 100 miles or so to the south of the French border , is part of the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains . |
| 19 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 20 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 21 | It is complicated by intrusions , where sudden squalls or now from the bay 's 50-odd tributaries causes local mixing . |
| 22 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 23 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 24 | Twenty per cent of council properties ( mostly flats ) lack gardens and a high proportion are three floors or more from the ground , which is rare in private accommodation . |
| 25 | The majority of the remaining seventeen hundred square miles or so of the county also comprises open countryside . |
| 26 | Middle- or upper-class grief is hidden under controlled facial muscles or even under a black veil , as with members of the royal family . |
| 27 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 28 | Cover and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge . |
| 29 | Since the proclamation of Czech independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 , the castle has sheltered the president of the Czech Republic , and you may have to make way for an enfilade of black limousines or indeed for the changing of the guard every hour in their colourful new uniforms . |
| 30 | Such an event might be theft , fire , illness or even death ; within the next year , the next many years or even within a lifetime . |