Example sentences of "[art] thousand or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you visit a biochemistry laboratory , you will often find on the wall a ‘ metabolic chart ’ , usually supplied as an advertisement by a drug company , giving the names and chemical formulae of the thousand or more organic compounds commonly found in cells , connected by arrows indicating which substances can be directly transformed into which others . |
| 2 | The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately . |
| 3 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 4 | But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator . |
| 5 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |
| 6 | Pollen evidence shows that even in the Amazon basin , maize was being grown some 6000 years BP and that there was forest clearance a thousand or possibly three thousand years ago at Lake Victoria in Central Africa . |
| 7 | It is priced at $95 in quantities of a thousand or more . |
| 8 | Although under-assessment was nowhere more flagrant than among rich Londoners , it was always possible for a fortune to be wiped out by an unsuccessful business venture , as in the case of Alderman Aylmer , draper , who was assessed at £40 net , his debts paid' , when others of this rank were normally worth a thousand or more . |
| 9 | They gather together in a dense fleet a thousand or more strong , and paddle steadily towards an inlet or a small bay , splashing vigorously with their wings and feet . |
| 10 | Several species of bee-eater nest in colonies a thousand or more strong . |
| 11 | Almost half of the county 's 172 parishes had a school of some kind by 1807 , including almost all of those with a population of a thousand or more . |
| 12 | Though founded by the Vikings a thousand or so years ago it has , like most East Riding villages , very few really ancient buildings . |
| 13 | A thousand or so pickers may crowd into a few square miles , followed closely by mushroom buyers whose pockets are stuffed with cash for spot purchases . |
| 14 | But in the gravel , the eggs remain , a thousand or so from every female . |
| 15 | It would , for example , be an extraordinary institution which could encompass a thousand or so adolescents and not encounter some difficulty . |
| 16 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 17 | There have been many peace rallies many times before in Northern Ireland , the significance of today 's not the numbers , a thousand or so , but who they were . |