Example sentences of "or [adv] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To sum up then , according to the so-called unorthodox view , the company , or rather individuals on the conglomerate 's behalf , deals on either inside information acquired in the course of business about another company , for example , an investment banking client on the verge of announcing an increase in expected profits ; or on information ‘ leaked ’ by one arm of the conglomerate about a long or short position it has taken as market maker on specific shares and which it would like to off-load into the accounts of customers in the conglomerate 's fund management arm . |
| 2 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 3 | After landing , which included the formalities of a lecture on the dangers of picking up unidentified objects , we were transported the sixty or so kilometres into the capital town of Stanley , and deposited at our hotel on the waterfront . |
| 4 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 5 | Leslie wrote 100 or so part-songs for the choir , including ‘ O Memory ’ , ‘ The Pilgrims ’ , and ‘ Annabelle Lee ’ , which became best sellers . |
| 6 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 7 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 8 | Their ministers ( if such a term can be used of the great officials such as the treasurers and hetmans of Poland and Lithuania ) were irremovable ; and the principle of the liberum veto meant that any of the two hundred or so members of the Diet ( Seym ) could nullify the work of an entire session by recording a single dissenting vote . |
| 9 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 10 | In the following years other small cohorts followed , and twenty or so girls above the age of twelve attended the school in 1979 . |
| 11 | A whole new landscape would appear , not a totally level one I would suggest , but some hundred or so feet below the original . |
| 12 | I practically fell through the door to the balcony , shut it after me , turned left , scrambled the twenty or so feet to the door in the south-west corner and plunged through , closing this too . |
| 13 | He was only 100 or so feet above the sea and we closed on him rapidly . |
| 14 | The cord is 5 feet long , so the crystal hangs some 20 or so feet above the floor level . |
| 15 | He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques . |
| 16 | ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue . |
| 17 | Even though Windows NT has not yet been released , 37% of the 1,000 or so participants in a Dun survey at UniForum believe NT will offer benefits not yet available under Unix . |
| 18 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 19 | Helen watched him until he rounded the corner , then walked Nicola the ten or so yards along the street that took them to the entrance to her building . |
| 20 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 21 | Only four or so turns of the screw secure the blade , and quick changes were possible after a little practice . |
| 22 | Of the dozen or so choirs in the Navy , including two in Gibraltar and Hong Kong , the one in Greenwich has sufficient expertise to record hymns for use in ships at sea . |
| 23 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 24 | In skirmishes on the rugged Norwegian mountains made dangerous by an early thaw , these companies screened the Allied operations a hundred or so miles to the north around Narvik . |
| 25 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 26 | In the past week or so householders throughout the country have been opening their April water bills and gaping . |
| 27 | By the way , is there any way I can get the home or away kits of the team ? |
| 28 | Caterers may come into contact with the Magistrates ' Court in this way if they commit one of a number of offences relating to their profession , for example licensing offences , or offences under the Food Safety Act 1990 , or possibly offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 29 | Recommendation ( ix ) calls upon local offices and the Department of Social Security to give higher priority to those entering residential care to make sure that their claims for income support are processed in good time so that people do not have weeks of worry or possibly weeks in a home without paying . |
| 30 | No one must own any horse other than a work horse ; arms were forbidden ; informers were planted in every community to report on breaches of regulations or even suspicions about a man 's trade or lack of it ; and in all cases of doubt , summary hanging was in order . |