Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor will 60 , 70 or even more hon. Members when they lose their seats , plus another 100 or so who will retire . |
| 2 | St Andrew 's Golf Club , near New York , was founded in 1888 and today most American resorts have a golf course . |
| 3 | In his monumental opus Terra Nostra — certainly one of the dozen or so most important novels to be published in any language since the Second World War — the respected Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes depicted Jesus as surviving the Cross by means of fraudulent crucifixion involving a substitute . |
| 4 | This investigation is therefore intended to be both a serious historical research project based on a dozen or more geographically dispersed archives and a contribution to the wider understanding of a society at the centre of much attention but little insight . |
| 5 | But while the United States , France , the UK and Germany still find themselves in similar league positions to a hundred years ago , there is now a growing challenge from a dozen or more previously dependent nations , especially in Asia . |
| 6 | But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the farm worker has generally been among the last to receive citizenship rights granted to the rest of the population — the shadow of the workhouse was not finally removed until 1936 , the Rent Act was not extended to agricultural dwellings until 1976 and even today agricultural legislation manages to override certain of the conditions of the Truck Acts . |
| 8 | By 1907 it was estimated that the average daily attendance in the city 's nickelodeons was 100,000 and very naturally local politicians , reformers , and social workers were anxious to assess the significance of this statistic . |
| 9 | A policeman , James Allen Moore , killed three people at the west Belfast offices of Sinn Féin on Feb. 4 and later apparently committed suicide . |
| 10 | We followed up 116 patients each with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi for at least 5 years . |
| 11 | We report photographic follow-up of patients with 3 or more clinically atypical naevi and 20 or more benign naevi . |
| 12 | Group 1 consisted of 85 patients who had 3 or more clinically atypical naevi ( >5 mm in diameter and irregular edge , irregular pigment , or inflammation ) , more than 20 benign naevi , and no personal or family history of melanoma ( Kraemer et al 's categories A and B ) . |
| 13 | I gulped , opened the door and was greeted by the sight of twenty or so completely naked people . |
| 14 | ( Exceptionally , both ovaries may produce simultaneously or one ovum may divide into two or even more separate cells . ) |
| 15 | And this impact is to be achieved in a particular way , i.e. through a ‘ profane illumination ’ brought about through the juxtaposition of two or more seemingly incongruous figures . |
| 16 | According to this view the space opened by figural language is not that between metaphoric and proper terms , but that between two or more equally figural terms , which , in Brooke-Rose 's case , are two or more discourses . |
| 17 | In linguistics , " creole " is a technical term referring to a class of languages which originate through contact between two or more already existing languages . |
| 18 | Most of the above theories suggest that leadership style is a question of choosing between two or more mutually exclusive leadership alternatives eg either democratic or authoritarian . |
| 19 | One method of constructing chimaeric ( or " allophenic " ) mice is to aggregate two or more genotypically distinct morulae together and re-implant the composite embryo into the uterus of a pseudopregnant foster mother ( 23 , and see Chapter 6 , Section 2.2 ) . |
| 20 | Certainly , none of the 20 or so currently available soloists matches Gilels in the concerto 's slow movement where the playing is astonishing in its absorption and intense , concentrated quiet . |