Example sentences of "[art] [num] [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 2 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 4 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 5 | The government estimates that an additional 11,250 reports will be required each year , on top of the 250,000 or so social inquiry reports that were being called for in the years preceding the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 6 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 7 | The last was set up in the seventies when apparently some defector had cast some doubt on Mills . |
| 8 | One of the major demands of the RENFE unions , achieved in 1984 , was the inclusion of the 1,500 or so higher management staff within the scope of annual collective agreements . |
| 9 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 10 | Bismuth was introduced in the 1920s and finally ousted mercury from the therapeutic armamentarium , because its curative action could be attained with doses which , unlike those of mercury , did not approach the lethal amount . |
| 11 | From 1982–90 SCAWD ran a small investment company , one of the fifteen or so international support associations of EDCS , raising in that time some £250,000 in investment capital for the WCC development bank . |
| 12 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |
| 13 | This order specifies how the twenty or so different amino acids are arranged in a protein , how much is to be made , and when . |
| 14 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 15 | All the 1,000 or so retinal ganglion cells that are maximally excited by rotation about one particular axis , whatever their positions in the visual field , project to one of the three divisions of the nucleus of the accessory optic tract ; similarly all those excited by rotations about the other two also go to their appropriate subdivisions . |
| 16 | Regrettably the UK comes into the category of the also-rans , together with France , with less than average growth in the latter part of the 1980s and only average growth in the 1990s . |
| 17 | I spent an interesting afternoon on the telephone trying to elicit the names and addresses of the managing directors of the half-dozen or so biggest DIY chains . |
| 18 | Jack and I have known God 's strength and grace for the many tasks we have been involved in as Crossroads staff , and for Jack the difference is that we work a six and sometimes seven day week and we 're open for business outside office hours ! |
| 19 | The same method using netting would make effective protection for a bed of a dozen or more high-yielding strawberry plants . |
| 20 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
| 21 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 22 | These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate 's most virulent and inventive poisons . |
| 23 | The village boasted a fleet of a dozen or so small fishing boats , which Ashley had seen setting sail at night and returning with their slippery silver haul in the mornings . |
| 24 | Instead of one large corporate body , like the BBC , ITV comprised a dozen or so smaller production companies , all making , and prerecording , programmes for sale to each other and overseas . |
| 25 | This has the same view as Philip Swallow 's , but is smaller — indeed , rather too small for all the furniture it contains : a desk , bookcases , filing cabinets , a table and a dozen or so unstacked stacking chairs . |
| 26 | If you roll a 4 or more that wound has regenerated . |
| 27 | If you roll a 4 or more that wound has regenerated . |
| 28 | ‘ It would have been a chance in a million but maybe next time we will be lucky . ’ |
| 29 | erm you know the each , I mean , basically we are , we are a world of a hundred or so independent sovereign states and each sovereign state can do what it wishes within its territory with the exception of Iraq of course |
| 30 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |