Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three or four bedroom bungalows or spacious two bed bungalows . |
| 2 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 4 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 5 | Between the commencement date of the application and acceptance by Abbey Life of the risk , the life assured will be covered for death as a result of an accident , the lower of the sum assured or fifty thousand pounds . |
| 6 | Against them and the seven thousand at Telnitz was ranged the whole might of the Austro-Russian left : forty or fifty thousand men . |
| 7 | It has remained a type of upland grass area since the recovery of vegetation after the last ice age , ten or eleven thousand years ago . |
| 8 | If you 're doing out a lounge you 're maybe talking about seven or eight hundred pounds if you want a top , top of the range carpet . |
| 9 | Seven or eight hundred tinners went thither , who first offered the cornfactors seventeen shillings for twenty-four gallons of wheat , but being told they should have none , they immediately broke open the cellar doors , and took away all in the place without money or price . |
| 10 | ‘ Seven or eight hundred years of sewers , underground rivers , tunnels , and nobody knows where half of them are until they 're excavating or making changes , as they were at the Priory . |
| 11 | Seven or eight thousand figures had taken up position kneeling on prayer carpets , so that as you walked in through the great red-stone gate you were confronted by rank upon rank of white-clad backs topped with brightly coloured turbans or embroidered mosque-caps . |
| 12 | Developed from a vast influx of sand that was carried onto the low rock basement by a rising sea level over the last seven or eight thousand years ( Ritchie , 1985 ) , machair with its essentially base-rich , alkaline , free-draining soils has provided a distinctive landscape element . |
| 13 | A generation later , another , bound for so great a centre of civilisation as Paris , still found it necessary to take with him sixty boxes of household goods and twenty of food , seven or eight dozen chairs and armchairs , a coach , a chaise and twenty horses . |
| 14 | It 's a full relational database with the capacities needed for heavy-duty work : 255 fields per record , 16 million records per table , 2,000 tables or 32 million records per database . |
| 15 | ( 1 ) that there should be fair distribution between geographical areas , so that , in any year , where possible one school should be included from each of the eight ( now six ) educational administrative areas ( 2 ) that in any year , project schools should comprise a mix of schools in terms of the degree to which educational initiatives of one sort or another have been taken , the socioeconomic environment , philosophies of grouping , pedagogy etc . |
| 16 | I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything . |
| 17 | Robert reckoned I 'd dropped thirty or forty thousand pounds . ’ |
| 18 | Sorry to press this but would you regard the provision of thirty three or forty six hectares in York and a hundred and five hectares in Greater York as being prejudicial to your interests in Leeds ? |
| 19 | The Alexandra Palace transmitter gave a range of about forty miles , or 12 million people . |
| 20 | The ‘ Chocolate Experience ’ has already expanded , with Cadbury World Tour Guides taking visitors around Cadbury 's newest Packaging Plant , where 118 million blocks of chocolate can be packed every year , and around the Cadbury World Demonstration Area , where the exclusive Cadbury World assortment is made by hand . |
| 21 | We are also very weak in the ‘ image-data ’ field , where some quarter-million pieces of image data are unindexed . |
| 22 | The first concerned the volumes housed in the Special Collections Room of the Map Library , where some 2,000 volumes were cleaned , and leather dressing was applied where appropriate . |
| 23 | At Leon camp , where some 1,000 refugees live , sewing , weaving and carpentry workshops have been established , together with a small school which also offers literacy classes for adults . |
| 24 | Beneath the Bristol Channel where some 3.3 km of Triassic and Jurassic sediments were deposited , conditions for post-Variscan gas generation seem comparable . |
| 25 | No what I mean is that er once the item is in production if you wish to order another hundred drop tanks or another thousand drop tanks if you make that order then approximately one year later you would receive deliveries of those tanks against that order . |
| 26 | For one reason or another three types of agrarian enterprise were under particular pressure : the slave plantation , the serf estate and the traditional non-capitalist peasant economy . |
| 27 | First , it appears that there may be no truth as to how many times more pleasant or painful one experience is than another . |
| 28 | She did not dare let go but hung on to the rail , where another four hands also hung on , for dear life . |
| 29 | That is an inadequate answer , given that more than a year ago there was a severe weather crisis throughout the country , especially in the east midlands district where 2 million people were without supplies , some of them for a considerable period . |
| 30 | In 1984 just over six per cent of all workers , or some 1 .5m people , regarded their jobs as temporary . |