Example sentences of "[num] or [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty or so of the females formed a tight cluster , joined hands and walked backwards until they formed the circumference of a large circle . |
| 2 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 3 | And four coming to light argues forty or more in the dark , most likely for good . ’ |
| 4 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 5 | The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence . |
| 6 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 7 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 8 | This decline was due to both the sale of council dwellings and to fewer starts , which — at perhaps 20,000 or so in the mid-1980s — represents about one-fifth the early 1970s total . |
| 9 | But in the gravel , the eggs remain , a thousand or so from every female . |
| 10 | They usually play to 100,000 or so at a time , so it should be fun . |
| 11 | Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment . |
| 12 | At only $1 billion or so for a 50% stake , the price strikes some industry observers as a steal . |
| 13 | It proposes to recapitalise the insurer by raising NKr2.8 billion through a rights issue and another NKr1.5 billion or so from the bond market . |
| 14 | In 1991 the UK current account deficit was a little over £6 billion and is expected to double in size to £12 billion or more by the end of 1992 . |
| 15 | Can you do one of me ? ’ , until I 'd completed twenty five or so in the space of about two months . |
| 16 | When the 60-strong Troop was reduced through casualties to the 38 or so of an infantry platoon , their handling was very similar . |
| 17 | I shoved twenty or so into the pouch . |
| 18 | However it applied only to firms with 15 or more on the payroll . |
| 19 | Afterwards we split up into various groups , and and I had another formal introduction to one of the ‘ production teams ’ ( which is really a little hamlet with a population of 200 or so near the town ) . |
| 20 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 21 | There seems to have been a windmill for practically every village and sometimes two or more in the market towns . |
| 22 | Pendant lights , usually hanging on their own flex from a ceiling rose , are the most common form of general tungsten lighting — ideally , there should n't be just one light in the centre of a room , but two or more around the room , including over any table . |
| 23 | Derwent is expected to make trading profits of £2 million or so in the year to March . |
| 24 | When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years . |