Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no plan , or rather a hundred plans , which is worse than having none at all . |
| 2 | ‘ Let me outline the case , or rather the two cases , to you all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At a level above that is assembly language whose commands normally translate into a set , of ten or perhaps a hundred , machine language commands . |
| 5 | In the army of the Kha-Khan they would be leaders of ten , or perhaps a hundred . |
| 6 | Erm , I 'll probably have er two or perhaps a three seater sofa and for the rest fire side chairs . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the two old dears together . |
| 8 | Those are the more or less the five variations on a theme . |
| 9 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 10 | WHETHER or not the two Germanies are coming together too quickly , their cars certainly are . |
| 11 | Cardboard cut-outs of the two continents were made and fitted together , computer programmes written to devise the most perfect match between the two continents , similarities and the differences in the geology of corresponding areas studied ad nauseam , and even details of the animal life in each continent compared , but without reaching any firm conclusions on whether or not the two continents had ever been united . |
| 12 | A company spokesman was not able to say whether or not the two were connected . |
| 13 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 14 | The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars . |
| 15 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 16 | The Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether or not the 30 runners should be prosecuted for trespassing on the railway . |
| 17 | Sessions may be timetabled on a regular basis — once a fortnight or once every five lessons , say — or it may be left to teachers to request the room when they want to use video . |
| 18 | Such reports must be sent not less than once every six months , or once every two months ( r 6.163 ) . |
| 19 | To approach them tell them how they feel about things rather than having to ring you up and make an appointment if only once a year or once every six months use a group . |
| 20 | do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la |
| 21 | There must be something wrong with the Trebor technique because countless — or about a dozen — readers have sent in stories of their own triumphs with peppermints , sugar lumps , sticky tape and photographic film . |
| 22 | In this respect , living systems differ from non-living ones : you can not make a visible change in the form or behaviour of a wave in the sea by moving one molecule , or even a million molecules . |
| 23 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |
| 24 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 25 | It is , therefore , sometimes a little difficult to keep up-to-date , for although what is found may not be in the area being researched by the local historian concerned , it may , nonetheless , have a bearing , for the style of housing suggested for one place may be typical of that formerly existing in another , ten or even a hundred miles away . |
| 26 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 27 | ‘ For management data it 's no good having a five , six or even a 20 dimensional database , ’ he says , ‘ because that 's not the way data works . |
| 28 | ‘ This means that the number of women acquiring HIV per year can not be counted in the thousands , or even the hundreds of thousands , ’ he said . |
| 29 | In fact , when metals or ceramics are prepared in single-crystal form , even the common materials such as iron , aluminium , alumina and rock salt — to name only a few — are anisotropic and so not adequately described by a single modulus such as Young 's modulus or even the two moduli required for an isotropic material . |
| 30 | But one is constantly struck by the author 's insatiable interest in the whole range of sculptural production , which refused to allow him to ignore the ceramics made under the influence of sculptors , the bronze door handles of the Hill Music Room or even the four terminal busts attached to the bookcase in the office of the Keeper of Antiquities . |