Example sentences of "the [adj] [num] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 2 | Perhaps a new young star would make his insistent mark on the golfing heavens ; or , more likely , one of the top dozen or so established golfers would add to his bank balance . |
| 3 | Previously , only the top forty or so top-winning show dogs were invited to compete . |
| 4 | The other three ( Vela , the Crab and PSR1509–58 ) are all associated with supernova remnants ( SNRs ) , whereas very few — perhaps four — of the remaining 500 or so galactic radio pulsars have convincing associations with SNRs . |
| 5 | Francisco-based firm , aims to supply the product to the 10 000 or so American children who suffer from a deficiency of the hormone , which is vital for normal growth . |
| 6 | I wonder how many of the younger of today 's professional chefs realise that the origins of their great rebellion of the late 19605 and early 19705 stem , at least in part , from the days of Dr de Pomiane and his protests against illogical and harmful eating habits . |
| 7 | This is exactly the system which many teacher-librarians and resource centre directors in Great Britain adopted for reprographic and audiovisual materials when they began consciously organizing resource collections ( rather than " libraries " ) in the late 19605 and early 19705 . |
| 8 | It was also the result of mounting pressure from the late 1870s for more humane treatment of the aged . |
| 9 | That was not achieved in the late 1980s and too many couples and families paid the price . |
| 10 | IXI Ltd , Cambridge , claims that over 50% of the estimated 400,000 or so existing Motif users are running its X.desktop manager on top of their Open Software Foundation-based windowing environments . |
| 11 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 12 | Companies such as Rover , Alfa-Romeo and Seat became increasingly caught in no man 's land , insufficiently large to compete on effective terms with the Big Six and yet unable to gain a secure niche in the market which would enable them to compete with the luxury car makers . |
| 13 | Two women with shawls wrapped tightly about their ears and heads were deep in conversation , their low voices barely audible to themselves , let alone the other 30 or so damp travellers awaiting the arrival of the ghostly ferry . |
| 14 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 15 | Relations with the four hundred or so different acts that had passed through the company had been , for the most part , harmonious . |
| 16 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 17 | Of the 20 000 or so living species of fish , only about 120 are found south of the Antarctic Convergence , and most of those are endemic ( Everson , 1984 ) . |