Example sentences of "[det] [adj] or [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 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |