Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forty or so passengers already gathered in happy anticipation wore name badges and carnations and held glasses of orange juice convivially . |
| 2 | Little is known of his administration , though charter witness-lists suggest some continuity with previous regimes in the dozen or so ealdormen also present at grants of Offa and Ecgfrith . |
| 3 | It has been made clear from the outset that the Board 's remit extends over some 350 institutions ; in other words , it is concerned not just with the 90 or so establishments substantially engaged in public sector higher education that would have come within the aegis of the Green Paper 's Model B , but with virtually all those which make some provision for higher education . |
| 4 | The decision affects only new plants , however — not the 80 or so stations now working or the 57 under construction . |
| 5 | On both occasions she had been struck by the contrast between on the one hand the beauty of the Bay itself , the islands , the fine buildings towards Posillipo and on the other the cramped and jumbled desperation of the mean and bustly streets immediately below her . |
| 6 | Production from the 40 or so fields currently either producing or under development , will fall to around the 20 million tonnes per year level by the end of the century . |
| 7 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 8 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 9 | Martin said he and his helpers shifted the 400 or so bales about six times over the weekend . |
| 10 | Her younger sisters , Elizabeth and Hannah , had their births recorded not only at Thurlstone but at Lockwood Particular Baptist chapel , a dozen or so miles further north , near Huddersfield . |
| 11 | Though founded by the Vikings a thousand or so years ago it has , like most East Riding villages , very few really ancient buildings . |
| 12 | Except to say that women 's entry into education generally was conceded reluctantly and belatedly a hundred or so years ago , long after the rules had been established and the parameters had been set . |