Example sentences of "the thousand or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you visit a biochemistry laboratory , you will often find on the wall a ‘ metabolic chart ’ , usually supplied as an advertisement by a drug company , giving the names and chemical formulae of the thousand or more organic compounds commonly found in cells , connected by arrows indicating which substances can be directly transformed into which others . |
| 2 | The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately . |
| 3 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |