Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] in [art] " 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| 1 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society .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 | Such leases are generally either very badly converted English leases or else in the form of stale Scottish styles , unchanged by time or circumstance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Cover and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge . |
| 7 | Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning . |
| 8 | Many other substances play a minor role as insect pigments , occurring either in small amounts or only in a few species . |
| 9 | There was for a period of some two months or so in the summer of 1922 a diversion which my mother and aunt enjoyed after the walk . |
| 10 | Requests for copy on graphics or proofing printers which would occupy two columns or less in the dictionary should normally be satisfied within thirty minutes . |
| 11 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 12 | ‘ After Winston had retired , he used to give lunch parties every two weeks or so in the basement of his house in Hyde Park Gate . |
| 13 | On the other hand , infant mortality considerably decreases if spacing is four years or longer in the regions where overall levels of infant mortality are high , but the beneficial impact of four-year or longer spacing seems to weaken with the reduction of general infant mortality ; it is almost negligible in the Western Hemisphere ( see Fig. 7 ) . |
| 14 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |