Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
2 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
3 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |
4 | Out of the 2,300 or so public limited companies ( Aktiengesellchaften , or AG ) , only 619 have ordinary shares quoted or traded on the stockmarket ( which is 80 more than at end-1989 ) . |
5 | Indeed , there is a pressure group to get more women MPs , called the 300 Group , which seeks 300 out of the 600 or so seats in Parliament for women . |
6 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
7 | In particular the post of Secretary has become vacant and we would love to hear from anyone who may be able to help out on a temporary or more regular basis … ( see page 23 ) . |
8 | The first certain name , however , goes back to the 1920s or even earlier — Miss Florrie Forsythe , of Seagoe . |
9 | ‘ All right , keep it down , ’ he said , raising his voice , looking out at the twenty or so uniformed and plain clothes men seated in the room . |