Example sentences of "[art] [num] [coord] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see .
2 He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps .
3 The 158 or so student societies are funded by the Students ' Association .
4 Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined .
5 Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms .
6 BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body .
7 We know some details of the backgrounds of the twenty-two or so party members who made up the Politburo .
8 After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households .
9 Think instead about Quinta Paraiso da Mia , on the big sandy Luz Bay , just outside Lagos : a dozen or so apartment buildings linked by pathways in a shady garden , a minute 's walk from the beach .
10 To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach .
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