Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 3 | This is available to people age fifty or over with the er necessary amount of qualifying service which is generally two years . |
| 4 | In practice there were two types of member : the fifty or so of middle-class or petit bourgeois origin who formed the backbone of the appreciative audience at Leese 's regular Wednesday night diatribes against the Jews at his London headquarters represented the core of the IFL ; there were also working-class members who engaged in street meetings at intermittent intervals and who were involved in direct conflict and physical violence with members of the Jewish community . |
| 5 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 6 | Fifty or so of the females formed a tight cluster , joined hands and walked backwards until they formed the circumference of a large circle . |
| 7 | In terms of the definition of er what is historic York I think again an issue we went over for some length of time at the greenbelt inquiry , I would draw your attention back to my earlier comments that York is basically a modern industrial city with a very precious historic core , that historic core er represents no more than actually five percent of the built up area , that something like eighty five percent of the city was built after eighteen hundred , the view that was expressed by the County in N Y Two , in terms of the definition of the greenbelt , the Greater York greenbelt and its purposes was not accepted by the City Council , we do not accept that all of the func elements of the York greenbelt contribute towards preserving the character of the historic city , we rely on the the fact that the two comments the Senior Inspector made at this , the the green wedges and historic core itself that establish the historic character of the city , there are many parts of the edge of York which could repli be replicated in many cities , historic or otherwise around the country and finally just coming back to the issue of scale of development erm the point I should have made earlier about the house builders figures for the city of York is that the house builders did suggest a figure of four thousand for the city , erm , I 'm not aware on what basis that was made , but clearly my evidence would quite clearly indicate that I believe that could not be accommodated , certainly on any known sites within the cit current city boundary , thank you Chair . |
| 8 | In most shows ‘ hands-on ’ technology tends to be a token feature ; either over-subscribed or out of order . |
| 9 | Once again , now it does n't matter which way round you start , you can start left over right or right over left , but the second time you do it opposite to the first time , so the first time I put the left one over first and the right one over that and then tuck it through , just like tying a shoe lace really , okay ? |
| 10 | no , no , I , I , I just really want , cos I do n't think there 's any question of me this afternoon ruling on whether you 're right or not on these points , but I just er on second I thoughts I want to have them in mind |
| 11 | All the available evidence also shows that these social class inequalities have declined very little or not at all , and , in some instances , they have increased over the years . |
| 12 | It may actually be used little or not at all in a particular interaction . |
| 13 | I still was n't feeling strong or back to my normal fitness , but I thought that some fresh air would do me good ( well that was my excuse anyway ! ) . |
| 14 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 15 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 16 | And possibly either after that or simultaneously with that or to transfer there , he might go up to live in his father 's house up in Yorkshire , Mytholmroyd er er I du n no but it seems to me that if there is a worse place to be unemployed than Wolverhampton , West Riding has got ta be erm a competitor |
| 17 | either that or out on the bleeding street |
| 18 | However , what can we say with confidence about the beliefs of ordinary people , either in the nineteenth or even in the late twentieth century ? |
| 19 | Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory . |
| 20 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 21 | When we asked all the branches in Environmental Services if they had anything we should know about and put into print for the next Environmental Issues , such as had they done anything exciting or out of the ordinary recently , Branch manager from Pest Control Sheffield , Henri Amiss was quick to point out that everything their branch did set them apart from other branches . |
| 22 | The theory also claims that while some languages ( e.g. Russian and Arabic ) have stress-timed rhythm similar to that of English , others ( such as French , Telugu and Yoruba ) have a different rhythmical structure called syllable-timed rhythm ; in these languages , all syllables , whether stressed or unstressed , tend to occur at regular time-intervals and the time between stressed syllables will be shorter or longer in proportion to the number of unstressed syllables . |
| 23 | I asked , getting that first warning flicker that something was wrong or out of place . |
| 24 | But final family size can not be known until women are in their late 30s or well into their second decade of marriage . |
| 25 | of getting i the some sort of a working a relationship a at a more detailed where in between , we 're between the staff the teaching staff and the tutor , the form tutors help the teaching staff , especially and say in your department where you you 're gon na have to give them more homework . |
| 26 | Thus , if insider dealing enables ‘ everything known about the company whether public or not to be reflected in the price of that company 's shares ’ then investors ( outsiders ) are unlikely to undertake investments ‘ blind-sided ’ by developments not yet reflected in the current prices of the shares . |
| 27 | Do n't try to be infallible , god-like or always on your best behaviour : it 's extremely stressful . |
| 28 | Word lengths vary from 12 or less to 64 or more bits , typical lengths being 16 and 32 bits . |
| 29 | It was impossible to judge whether she was asking because she was interested or merely for the sake of politeness . |
| 30 | If all goes well , Beech Road will start at 2-1 or less at Cheltenham as there is no mistaking his superiority . |