Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] even [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 2 | The unnamed servers may go to go 32 or even 64 CPUs in the future , whilst a 150MHz iteration of the R4000A is scheduled for the end of next year and the company even talks of a 500MHz part . |
| 3 | In many industries , a strike in 1984 is almost as likely to result in fatalities , injuries , or destruction of property as it would have been in 1934 or even 1904 . |
| 4 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 5 | Profits low or even zero . |
| 6 | Traditional typesetting equipment costs tens or even hundreds of thousands while a small desktop publishing system based on a page printer may cost less than £10,000 . |
| 7 | Many breed on coastal cliffs , but small colonies are reported on isolated nunataks tens or even hundreds of kilometres from the sea . |
| 8 | Such an effect has been estimated to cause an increase in the incidence of basal cell and squamous cell ( non-melanoma ) skin cancer by tens or even hundreds of thousands of cases a year in the United States . |
| 9 | Towns all over the north of England and into Scotland were served by wagon from Newcastle , sometimes weekly or even two or three times a week . |
| 10 | Conversely , and unlike Kevlar , it has no suicidal self-cutting tendencies and will maintain good control even in Quad-line team mix-ups where 12 or even 16 lines have been known to wrap together through complicated manoeuvres . |
| 11 | But most of these approaches still see signifiers as expressing meanings directly , a few or even one at a time ; and therefore as being susceptible , despite their complications , to rational , more or less complete analyses . |
| 12 | The fact that such consideration , with any firm basis of likelihood , would have been impossible as little as 30 or even 20 years ago is an indication of the changing sexual climate in Britain . |
| 13 | It should have been 2 or even 3 nil at half-time . |
| 14 | Partly because those who served in garrisons had to be ready to serve in the field when required ( for a castle acted as a base where soldiers could remain when not in the field , and from which they could control the countryside around by mounted raids within a radius of , say , a dozen miles ) , partly because of an increasing difficulty in securing active support from the nobility and gentry for the war in France , English armies at the end of the war sometimes included a greater ratio of archers to men-at-arms than ever before , sometimes 7:1 or even 10:1 , rather than the more usual 3:1 under Henry V and the parity of archers to men-at-arms normally found in the second half of the fourteenth century . |
| 15 | It is clear that even five thousand years ago in Mesopotamia people had achieved a degree of subtlety of belief that defies analysis into one or two dogmas . |
| 16 | In the early and high Middle Ages it had been possible to spend many tens and even hundreds of years on erecting a single building , be it a cathedral , a castle , or a town hall . |
| 17 | It is doubtful whether even one of the eight twelves ' living bullets could have cut through the atmosphere created by the Doctor 's words . |
| 18 | Because the nets are usually deployed many hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from shore , few but their crews have ever witnessed the damage inflicted on the marine ecosystem by the drift-net vessels . |
| 19 | They would not be employed singly but rather , once authorisation was given to employ them , it would mean tens , hundreds or even thousands of nuclear explosions , however ‘ small ’ . |
| 20 | Each cardholder has a set limit , running to hundreds or even thousands of pounds that can be borrowed at any one time . |
| 21 | Impractical , because if all areas of the curriculum were treated at this level of detail , hundreds or even thousands of criteria would be produced ; educationally unacceptable because of the curriculum fragmentation which would result since it would be difficult to link up such large numbers of criteria . |
| 22 | Continued use of drugs can be expensive , costing hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year . |
| 23 | If they were not retrieved , such hoards remained hidden until accidentally found , often hundreds or even thousands of years later . |
| 24 | By matching the patterns of tree rings from trees of known dates , a larger pattern of thick and thin rings covering hundreds or even thousands of years can be built up . |
| 25 | The same applies to the examples that I discuss in chapter 4 : some of these show gross differences between social groups on the basis of hundreds or even thousands of tokens , which would not be apparent without quantification . |
| 26 | They show tribute ‘ constituencies ’ ranging from as few as fifteen persons to several hundreds or even thousands in the case of some of the bigger nationalities — in particular the Kangalas , Baturus , Borogon and Megin tribes of Yakutia , and the Bulagat and Tabunut tribes of Buryat Mongols . |
| 27 | It may still be economical to print ten or more but when hundreds or even thousands of copies are required a whole new technology takes over . |
| 28 | The upper parts of sandstorms , which may rise hundreds or even thousands of metres into the air , are composed solely of dust , and sand movement takes place only very near ground level . |
| 29 | Church & Patel 's investigation ( 1982 ) of this showed that there may be hundreds or even thousands of different parse trees for some very natural English sentences . |
| 30 | Each specific protein has its own particular sequence of amino acids and a singular protein molecule may consist of dozens , hundreds or even thousands of these amino acid units . |