Example sentences of "a [num] [coord] [adv] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erato 's main mid-price label is ‘ Emeraude ’ ( DDD ) — initially a dozen or so titles varying from Corelli and Charpentier to Grieg and Tchaikovsky , with established ‘ Erato ’ names such as Schimone , Koopman , Paillard and Guschbauer . |
| 2 | Yesterday he was at Hartlepool Labour Hall , surrounded by a dozen or so women shoving leaflets into envelopes . |
| 3 | Beneath her feet large paving slabs formed a diamond pattern , while above her head stiff-framed sun umbrellas cast their shadows over half a dozen or so people enjoying the quiet scene . |
| 4 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 5 | My two daughters are lucky enough to go frequently to their friends ' parties , invariably attended by a dozen or so children clutching a present which has cost their parents between £3 and £5 . |
| 6 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |