Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Non-maintained schools accounted for another 252,000 or so children of primary age ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 12 and 16 ; DES , 1988 , Table A1 ) .
2 THE Crucible Theatre in Sheffield , host to the World Snooker Championships , stands on the site of the once famous Adelphi Hotel , birthplace in 1863 of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and home for some 20 or so years of Henry Sampson , who holds a special place in the annals of Yorkshire cricket .
3 The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed .
4 Just under half ( 48% ) of women marrying for the first time in 1987 had lived with their husbands prior to marriage compared with 19% of those marrying in the late 1970s and only 7% of those marrying in 1971 .
5 Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive .
6 The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject .
7 The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney .
8 The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s .
9 ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee .
10 Their ministers ( if such a term can be used of the great officials such as the treasurers and hetmans of Poland and Lithuania ) were irremovable ; and the principle of the liberum veto meant that any of the two hundred or so members of the Diet ( Seym ) could nullify the work of an entire session by recording a single dissenting vote .
11 Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed .
12 But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid .
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