Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 2 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 3 | In St Louis , we were booked in a 11,000 seater hall and I think 180 or so people came . |
| 4 | Most of Iraq 's 800 or so aircraft have spent the war on or under the ground in well-protected shelters and hiding places . |
| 5 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 6 | At the ‘ community ’ level , most of the 300 or so species populations studied in the large plot on Barro Colorado Island discussed above show positively correlated survival with distance from reproductive adults up to 15 m . |
| 7 | The sting for the oil industry came in the Chancellor 's later acknowledgment that he expected the changes in the oil taxation system to yield £300 million in additional Government revenue in 1994-95 and about £400 million the following year . |
| 8 | This contained 55% of the area 's population in 1801 but only 11% , in 1901 . |
| 9 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 10 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 11 | Employees and their families were among the 100 or so people who joined a convoy of 25 four-wheel drive vehicles in order to hit the heights . |
| 12 | It was also agreed that the 100 or so people from each country involved in the exchange should be accompanied by 70 journalists and a 70-member art troupe from each side . |
| 13 | Canny Ulster investors showed their preference for saving rather than spending during the recession , putting £204m into the societies ' coffers last year , compared to £175m in 1991 and just £61m in 1990 . |
| 14 | The West European market for computer products and services will grow by about 4.3% in 1993 and 6.8% in 1994 , according to Bruno Lamborghini , president of the Eurobit industry group , which presented the study to a conference in Brussels : market growth was 14.2% in 1989 and 8.9% in 1990 , slowing to 4.3% in 1991 and just 3% last year , having topped 15% for most of the 1980s . |
| 15 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 16 | But for the next two decades , as the volume of junk outstanding rose to $15 billion in 1980 and then $201 billion in 1989 , the default rate stayed low . |
| 17 | Of the 600 or so people who attended the sale , roughly 10% were non Indian . |
| 18 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 19 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 20 | However , the two dozen or so people in these departments who did relocate had sufficient skills and experience to provide training for newcomers as the business gradually transferred . |
| 21 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 22 | Beneath her feet large paving slabs formed a diamond pattern , while above her head stiff-framed sun umbrellas cast their shadows over half a dozen or so people enjoying the quiet scene . |
| 23 | She had been expecting the pool to be almost empty at that time of day and was surprised to see that there were about a dozen or so people in the water . |
| 24 | A relatively small number of people , about 180 to 200 , are admitted or discharged each year , compared with the 200,000 or so people admitted to ordinary Health Service psychiatric units . |
| 25 | One of the questions raised ( see also above , p. 202 and below p. 650 ) was whether the plaintiffs had given consideration to the defendants by promising to perform an existing contract between the plaintiffs and a third party , Fu Chip , in the performance of which the defendants had an interest . |
| 26 | Hungary 's trade with the Soviet Union accounted for 30% of total trade in 1980 but about 20% in 1990 . |
| 27 | A much greater proportion contribute to worship in churches of all kinds , as organists , singers , servers and stewards ; it was suggested that this could be as high as 80 or even 90% . |
| 28 | Then it earned a reprieve , this time it wo n't — a sobering thought for the sixty or so staff who are losing their jobs . |
| 29 | at least one of the couple 18 or over £61.30 |
| 30 | at least one of the couple 18 or over £54.80 |