Example sentences of "[art] million or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 2 | Public health doctors are more likely to influence public health if they collaborate with the million or so people employed in the health service . |
| 3 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 4 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 5 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 6 | Intel told the Wall Streeter it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 7 | Intel said it was expecting to deliver Pentiums in the low hundreds of thousands this year , not the million or more anticipated . |
| 8 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 9 | There may be a million or so people in the land who have the capacity to turn their hands to anything that 's going without feeling frustrated , or rebellious , or losing self-respect . |
| 10 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 11 | Then thinking , What if fresh relics should chance to get a million or so volts up them ? |
| 12 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 13 | In 1974 real output was 5.02 million b/d , a million or so up on 1972 . |
| 14 | It was home to a million or so settlers of European origin , the so-called " pieds noirs " . |
| 15 | When Tiananmen finally broke their reserve , a million or more , a fifth of the population , turned out for the biggest of several demonstrations in sympathy with the Peking students . |
| 16 | The magazine may have a circulation of half a million or more . |
| 17 | A further phase of New Town designation ensued , with designations for substantially increased target population figures to a quarter of a million or more . |
| 18 | A number of his friends had been affected in a similar way ; one or two had , in their terms , been wiped out — left with a million or less . |