Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historically , the behaviour of the students in the five or so years starting in 1969 can be seen as one more blow to education , one more reason for the public to begin to demand that they should have more control over the educational system . |
| 2 | I think he scored about 9 goals in the 5 or so matches he played in the youth cup , and 2 more in the senior ! |
| 3 | Yet in the 20 or so years during which we have been associated with processions and demonstrations about the A427 , not a single bypass has been built . |
| 4 | After the banks ' nationalisation he sold most of his interests in the dozen or so companies he had created and drawn his wealth from , and committed himself to combating the existing political system . |
| 5 | Little is known of his administration , though charter witness-lists suggest some continuity with previous regimes in the dozen or so ealdormen also present at grants of Offa and Ecgfrith . |
| 6 | Happily , however , there are exceptions to the rule and it would be difficult to find a greater breadth of overall flying experience than that which is to be found in the dozen or so Inspectors ( Operations ) in AIB . |
| 7 | It is remarkable , for instance , how seldom allegations of Hitler 's material corruption occur in the 1,400 or so cases among the Munich ‘ Special Court ’ files in which people stood specifically accused of a wide variety of insulting comments about the Führer . |
| 8 | The proportion has changed very little in the 50 or so years that women have had the vote , and the current number is actually one less than that in 1945 . |
| 9 | In the three or so years before matters were finally settled , a lot happened ; George Simpson gave up his interest in the partnership to retire to his leafy mansion near Reigate ; Hofmann had left England to take up a prestigious academic post in Berlin ; and the new Nicholson , Maule & Nicholson partnership had begun to transfer its production to a site at Hackney Wick . |
| 10 | For example , in a dozen or so villages during 1928 and 1929 , Pateman and a young teacher , W. P. Baker , provided short courses of the Chapter III type on rural history . |