Example sentences of "[prep] [num] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Zuwaya image seems correct : there was no internal sovereign power , at any rate up to about 1875 or so . |
| 2 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 3 | If a list of set books had been included in the Statutory Orders , it is easy to imagine how after ten or so years teachers would be desperately trying to change it , with old-fashioned Members of Parliament resisting in lively debates . |
| 4 | An hour is , e.g. divided into sixty minutes , the second into sixty parts and so on ; at last after ten or more successive divisions by sixty , time-elements are obtained which are not subjected to division , and in fact are indivisible . ’ |
| 5 | Just after nine or so , I suppose . |
| 6 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 7 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 8 | After two or more good seasons in succession , predatory birds become markedly more plentiful . |
| 9 | It will be interesting to see how Blackburn fans view the deal a ) now and b ) after 20 or so games . |
| 10 | • And if you yourself are in hospital for 10 or more consecutive nights in any 30-day period , your monthly payments will be refunded , for up to six months in any year . |
| 11 | If you wish to make a booking for 10 or more please call our Group Bookings Department on 0920 465023 . |
| 12 | At half past eleven or so , they were first spotted under a lamp-post at the end of the road . |
| 13 | The three characteristics were : an OBS score of eight or more , living alone , and without a closely involved informal carer ( only one of the control sample clients still at home at one year possessed all three of these characteristics ) . |
| 14 | — that at any one time ail action sample clients who lived alone , had an OBS score of eight or more , and had no closely involved informal carer would have been in an institution without the project . |
| 15 | A pair will produce up to 200 eggs ( though there are reports of 500 or more ) . |
| 16 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 17 | This consisted of an index ( with a score of 75 or below ) which combined relative per capita income and relative unemployment levels , and was an attempt to redefine the assisted areas more narrowly so as to direct funds to those areas most in need . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's perhaps a man of fifty or so ? ’ |
| 19 | He marched off at a brisk pace , leading his party of fifty or so , including two in bath-chairs intent on taking the tour , come hell or high water , the latter being most probable . |
| 20 | THESE questions , about men who have played an innings of 300 or more , are moderately easy , and the reader might like to tackle them without a reference book , at least to begin with . |
| 21 | I am not sure that on record it makes all that much difference to have 24 baroque oboes , as here , instead of 12 or so , but the sound of so many along with 12 bassoons , nine trumpets , nine trumpets and four sets of timpani is mightily impressive , and the more attractive for a rhythmic bounce . |
| 22 | In Indomalesia , there is concentrated interest in fewer than 100 species with exports of 12 or so . |
| 23 | While this is unlikely to cause a problem in a pond with a pH of 7.5 or less , it could do so in a poorly filtered or overcrowded pond with a pH of 8.0 or above . |
| 24 | The figures given are readings from from single experiments , typical of 2 or more independent determinations . |
| 25 | This has been done in America , but only at practices with a patient-list of 50,000 or more . |
| 26 | To go back to 1700 is to look at a life that is very little different , for most men and women , from that of 1500 or even 1200 . |
| 27 | UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN . |
| 28 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 29 | Each major department has at its headquarters a group of 100 or so civil servants , from the grade of ‘ principal ’ up to ‘ permanent secretary ’ , who are concerned with decisions of a ‘ policy ’ kind , many of which require ministerial approval . |
| 30 | Some evenings it would be a small group of half-a-dozen close friends , on red-letter nights a gathering of 100 or more to greet a visiting celebrity . |