Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such leases are generally either very badly converted English leases or else in the form of stale Scottish styles , unchanged by time or circumstance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It said the victims succumbed in gardening allotments , rural areas or simply on the street . |
| 8 | Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is complicated by intrusions , where sudden squalls or now from the bay 's 50-odd tributaries causes local mixing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The majority of the remaining seventeen hundred square miles or so of the county also comprises open countryside . |
| 20 | Cover and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It raised the more general and important question whether the determination of a statutory tribunal with a limited jurisdiction could give rise to issue estoppel at all , or only to cause of action estoppel ; in other words , whether it could give rise to an estoppel for all purposes or only for the limited purpose for which the jurisdiction to make the determination was conferred . |
| 23 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 24 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 25 | Large shoals may be found on quite shallow reefs or close to the walls of steep drop-offs beyond the protecting reef . |
| 26 | The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed . |
| 27 | I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words . |
| 28 | He had paid three pence at the booking office for his ticket and , after waiting ten minutes or so on the cold and draughty platform for the next London-bound train , he had arrived at Christchurch some ten minutes later to run through torrential rain toward the group of cottages which flanked the open park in the town centre . |
| 29 | After that , the manager went through the procedure adopted : a telephone call to the reference number cited ; verification of credit card ; verification of driving licence ; verification of home address ( the last three usually completed within ten minutes or so on the International Information Computer ) ; preparation , presentation , and signing of the contract ( including appropriate insurance clauses ) ; then , paperwork now completed , the car brought round to the outer forecourt , with an assistant to give the client a quick run-over of the controls , and to hand over the keys . |
| 30 | When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’ |