Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Non-maintained schools accounted for another 252,000 or so children of primary age ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 12 and 16 ; DES , 1988 , Table A1 ) .
2 ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue .
3 A whole new landscape would appear , not a totally level one I would suggest , but some hundred or so feet below the original .
4 The cord is 5 feet long , so the crystal hangs some 20 or so feet above the floor level .
5 THE Crucible Theatre in Sheffield , host to the World Snooker Championships , stands on the site of the once famous Adelphi Hotel , birthplace in 1863 of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and home for some 20 or so years of Henry Sampson , who holds a special place in the annals of Yorkshire cricket .
6 Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here .
7 Nowadays it seems there 's much more than just food to a perfect picnic .
8 Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive .
9 If cells from the region of the early embryo that will normally give rise to the eye are grafted into the region that will form the gut the cells do not form an eye any more but just part of the gut .
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