Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 2 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 3 | the eight hundred or so staff have all been retained and I 'm sure it will help us to continue our penetration into the leisure and retail sectors . ’ |
| 4 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |
| 5 | The top dozen or so jockeys would expect to ride over half the winners in a season . |
| 6 | The Who 's Who is a book of weighty significance masquerading as a fun succession of player profiles compiled from questionnaires sent to the top 350 or so players in the four home countries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Nineteen Cubans and Spaniards were allowed to disembark , plus three passengers with authentic visas ; the remaining 900 or so Jews waited for news of the negotiations which involved , variously , the Cuban President , his director of immigration , the shipping line , the local relief committee , the ship 's captain and a lawyer flown in from the New York headquarters of the Joint Distribution Committee . |
| 9 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 10 | Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them . |
| 11 | The new hospital will care for the annual 3,000 or so wildlife casualties in the area . |
| 12 | ( To understand the violence of this explosion , we can realize that a supernova may temporarily shine brighter than all the rest of the 100 billion or so stars in its galaxy put together . ) |
| 13 | I am sure that the 7 million or so patients who will benefit from nurses being able to prescribe will be grateful that he has chosen a Bill which will certainly be passed and will certainly — once it has reached the statute book and is implemented — have practical benefits for that many patients . |
| 14 | It might be fair to say that the paintings Picasso executed during the following eighteen or so months tend to look like all tribal art , an indication that he was ultimately interested and immersed in its spirit and its formal principles rather than in any of its individual manifestations . |
| 15 | And more : the political bureaucracy , the ‘ Nomenklatura ’ as Voslensky calls the three million or so people he numbers in the Soviet ruling class has the most powerful reason of self-interest for opposing ‘ revisionism ’ . |
| 16 | The three hundred or so grammar schools which existed in the late Middle Ages were mostly local and small . |
| 17 | He then waved us towards a table where large fluted glasses of champagne were already poured , and Toby 's experienced eye reckoned that there were sufficient reserves of his favourite tipple to get the three dozen or so visitors totally blotto several times over . |
| 18 | When you put those eleven thousand vehicles with the fourteen thousand or so vehicles that travel the roads around this course every day , that is a difficult problem . |
| 19 | I find little to choose between ‘ Silver ’ ( ADD ) and ‘ Laser ’ ( DDD ) , although the latter 30 or so titles , from Philips Germany , have highly futuristic designs that to my mind sit ill with the largely ‘ classic ’ repertoire . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Behind a grid , there is strong turbulent energy production for the first ten or so grid mesh-lengths along the tunnel ; the turbulence then becomes substantially isotropic and decays with distance down the tunnel . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 25 | Of the one hundred or so mosaics under examination only twenty are figured . |
| 26 | In Great Britain there are around 2300 census districts each in the charge of a census officer ( usually a member of the local registration staff ) who controls specially recruited enumerators — one for each of the 110 000 or so enumeration districts . |
| 27 | I soon discovered that the customers in that particular part of North London were very different to any of the other dozen or so Sainsbury 's shops I had worked in . |
| 28 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |