Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The bottom five notes or so of the violins can be enriched by adding a bassoon or two in unison .
2 Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week .
3 The point I 'm trying to get at sir is that erm it is none of it is in none of our interests , either the planning authorities or even of the developers , that if we were to erm find a strategic sites policy appropriate for this alteration , it 's in none of our interests that it should be confusing to the public or to the development industry as to how rare a thing this should be and how tightly directed it should be in geographical terms .
4 The counsellor has to enter into the family dynamic , not intrusively , not demanding compliance with the wishes or even with the needs of the elderly counsellee , but to ensure that the feelings and needs of each member of the family , however weak , are heard .
5 Suitable for use in garages or anywhere with a lot of grime !
6 Third , he exercised jurisdiction over the pagenses ( the " men of the pagus " or county ) : replicating the assemblies of the realm at local level were the county assemblies which were supposed to be held three times every year , and met either in the civitates or elsewhere in the county .
7 Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches .
8 And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week .
9 Cover and leave for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge .
10 Members of the committee are entitled to receive any travelling expenses directly incurred by them or their representatives in attending at committee meetings or otherwise on the committee 's business ( r 6.164 ) .
11 Colours can be used as a complement to fonts or even as a substitute ( e.g. a user might choose to display the Emphasized context in a brighter colour rather than in a different font ) .
12 The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed .
13 I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words .
14 If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained .
15 After twenty minutes or so with the list broker you start to see the world as he does .
16 When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’
17 If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained .
18 Keeping on the go can become a habit and there are very many people who could manage to let up for ten minutes or more in the course of most days , with a bit of careful planning .
19 Erm so you have you have another thirty minutes , twenty minutes or less from the candidate .
20 Not all otters are restricted to rivers , however ; some can be found upon the quiet shores of our lakes or even beside the sea .
21 It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town .
22 They are photographed holding their cheques , given for ideas that will benefit the company either in production , the offices or anywhere within the organisation where improvements can be made .
23 Since the proclamation of Czech independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918 , the castle has sheltered the president of the Czech Republic , and you may have to make way for an enfilade of black limousines or indeed for the changing of the guard every hour in their colourful new uniforms .
24 15 words or less to a sentence .
25 It is complicated by intrusions , where sudden squalls or now from the bay 's 50-odd tributaries causes local mixing .
26 Finally , a number of local authorities without polytechnics or much in the way of advanced further education provision have considered it unfair that they should nevertheless have to pay sizeable sums of money into the pool .
27 Choose instead a framing which cuts the figure , say , just above the knees or just below the shoulders .
28 Settlement can be a drawn out affair and can take as long as six months or more from the time your debt became overdue .
29 In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended .
30 There was for a period of some two months or so in the summer of 1922 a diversion which my mother and aunt enjoyed after the walk .
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