Example sentences of "[art] hundred or more " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the success or failure of this part of the operation would depend the lives of the hundred or more ordinary inmates of the building , because whether or not Control was successfully captured , phase three , an all-out assault by the remainder of Springfield 's troops would be launched . |
| 2 | These fish in the 1lb to 2lb class can be a hundred or more strong in a shoal , and if you begin catching this size of barbel it is likely they will remain in the swim , feeding off and on , for as long as you have bait to keep them interested . |
| 3 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 4 | This is a great piece of garden machinery but only if your land is already free of perennial weeds such as dandelion , dock and , the worst pest of all , creeping buttercup ; if not , all it will do is to chop them into little pieces , and where you had one when you used it , you 'll have a hundred or more next year . |
| 5 | The newly appointed prime minister will then form a government , giving a hundred or more governmental offices to his or her supporters . |
| 6 | According to the 1989 census , Russians accounted for just over half ( 50.8 per cent ) of the total population ; the balance was accounted for by a hundred or more different national groups , ranging from a few hundred Negidals in the Far East to the major Slavic and Muslim groups which occupied the west and south of the country as well as Russia proper . |
| 7 | I thought that was all about people feeling they 'd had their day in Parliament because there was a Tory majority of a hundred or more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whatever colour it is , you 'll find a hundred or more with similar markings . |
| 10 | Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 ) |