Example sentences of "a [num] [coord] [adv] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 2 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 3 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 4 | It was home to a million or so settlers of European origin , the so-called " pieds noirs " . |
| 5 | Routine administrative functions were sited in the free-standing towns and cities within a hundred or so miles of London . |