Example sentences of "[be] [adj] or [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 2 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 3 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |
| 4 | There are 1,000 or so languages in this group which are spoken in most of the southern half of Africa — below a line running roughly from Senegal to Kenya but excluding Namibia and South Africa . |
| 5 | There are 1,000 or so languages in this group which are spoken in most of the southern half of Africa — below a line running roughly from Senegal to Kenya but excluding Namibia and South Africa . |