Example sentences of "the [noun] [num] [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are certainly artists of proven worth , but who came to the fore twenty or so years ago . |
| 2 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 3 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 4 | For the past forty or so years since the railways passed into public ownership , the issue of social support — that is the extent to which unremunerative routes should be directly subsidised by the taxpayer — has never been entirely clear . |
| 5 | Parentally condoned absenteeism can , according to research studies over the past ten or so years , account for as much as 50–75 per cent of non-excused absenteeism . |
| 6 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 7 | If you 've found my column occasionally depressing over the past three or so years because of my doom-mongering , you should try reading The Great Reckoning by James Dale Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg . |
| 8 | The motivation and advantage of using such a method as a research tool is that it finds a middle way between idiosyncratic subjectivism and claims to objectivity that have been increasingly questioned in the past twenty or so years ( by writers from Derrida ( 1975 ) to Lakoff ( 1987 ) ) . |
| 9 | Sullivan took the opener 7-4 but then Duff looked to have taken command when he won the second 7-3 and the next 7-0 . |
| 10 | at least one of the couple 18 or over £61.30 |
| 11 | at least one of the couple 18 or over £54.80 |