Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] or [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was only 100 or so feet above the sea and we closed on him rapidly . |
| 2 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 3 | Only four or so turns of the screw secure the blade , and quick changes were possible after a little practice . |
| 4 | In business studies there were generally six or so applicants for each place . |
| 5 | He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high . |
| 6 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 7 | and with hindsight , although , do n't think I 'm being over critical , although you put forward eighty or so estimates for different schemes , with hindsight it 's clearly more prudent and fairer and accurate , more accurate to have a contingency fund is n't it ? , in the , in the budgetary cost |