Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] or [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below them in the urban hierarchy came 100 or so towns with between 1,500 to 7,000 people each . |
| 2 | During a stay in Italy de Superville produced 2,500 or so drawings of Tuscan , Umbrian and Roman works of art , intended to be used as illustrations for a history of art . |
| 3 | ‘ Even so ’ , said W.R. Cornish and G. de N. Clark in their Law and Society in England 1750–1950 , ‘ there was a growing feeling that a system which sent 10,000 or so debtors into prisons each year ( a quarter or more on the mesne process ) was too expensive , too indiscriminate , too open to abuse and overweening pressure . ’ |
| 4 | He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches . |
| 5 | Leslie wrote 100 or so part-songs for the choir , including ‘ O Memory ’ , ‘ The Pilgrims ’ , and ‘ Annabelle Lee ’ , which became best sellers . |