Example sentences of "[art] [num] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the 2,300 or so public limited companies ( Aktiengesellchaften , or AG ) , only 619 have ordinary shares quoted or traded on the stockmarket ( which is 80 more than at end-1989 ) . |
| 2 | Of the eight or so tonic preparations currently listed in Martindale 's Extra Pharmacopoeia , all contain glycerophosphate and half contain strychnine ; examples are Glytona , Glykola and Neuro Phosphates . |
| 3 | As I drove the fifty or so miles back home I thought that I would rewrite the story , the history rather , of the Butcher . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 7 | In the course of the itinerary outlined above , for instance , travellers would come across a fair number of the fifty or so Emmental saw-mills , and from their observation of farms and farmland would be able to appreciate the force of the Emmental saying " An Emmental farm without woodland is like a bed without a blanket " . |
| 8 | This was announced at our February meeting and was met with great approval from the fifty or so members present . |
| 9 | Whenever possible , Laura tried to visit the Mill personally and Hetherington was struck by her ability to pick a ‘ winning ’ cloth instantly from the fifty or so patterns he would show her . |
| 10 | The fifty or so miles unravel slowly , and I ca n't help feeling , pointlessly . |
| 11 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 12 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 13 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 14 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 15 | Most of the 500 or so independent political units of Europe in 1500 disappeared , absorbed by their more powerful neighbours , leaving some 25 or so victors . |
| 16 | Earlier than that I have a problem and it is my problem ; if you look at the 500 or so records I have produced there is quite a small percentage either on original instruments or of pre-Classical music . |
| 17 | Some languages are peculiar to one region , yet intimately related to others beyond — like the 500 or so Austronesian tongues which not only link speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia with those in Fiji , Malaysia , the Philippines , Sulawesi and Borneo , but also reach out to the inland mountains of Taiwan , the North Island of New Zealand , and to the speakers of Dobu in the d'Entrecasteaux islands and of Trukese on Truk . |
| 18 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Life proceeds at a gentle , traditional pace today for the 500 or so residents of Cotherstone Kelvin Walker runs his general store and petrol pumps ( and taxi service ) the Post Office also sells the superb Cotherstone cheese , and there are two excellent public houses . |
| 20 | By the outbreak of the Second World War , very few of the 500 or so ‘ special agreements ’ made with voluntary bodies had been implemented , and the 1944 Act allowed for their revival . |
| 21 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 22 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 23 | So most of the 750 or so who have emerged victorious from their motel weekend over the last decade are condemned , like the Ancient Mariner , to spend their lives trailing around the country , telling their tale to uninterested local Conservative worthies in the hope they 'll be offered the honour of fighting the seat . |
| 24 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 25 | Many of the goats described in the 30 or so scientific studies that have since been published on the phenomenon ( the earliest in 1904 ) can be traced to those bred and cared for by Mayberry . |
| 26 | Trinity College at Cambridge can claim more members of the Order than all the 30 or so colleges at Oxford put together ( 25 against 20 ) . |
| 27 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 28 | He and his countrymen , including General Vo Nguyen Giap , a vice-president of Vietnam , drew up their national plan faster than any of the 30 or so nations that have outlined similar strategies for environmental recovery . |
| 29 | Once returned the papers are considered by an internal editorial committee , and the 800 or so that may merit publication are passed on to one of our two ‘ hanging committees ’ ( named after the committee at the Royal Academy that decides which pictures to hang in the summer exhibition ) . |
| 30 | The Dutch government has now asked the Arts Council to allocate funds and the 300 or so galleries are now grouped into two categories . |