Example sentences of "[art] thousand or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ?
2 Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby .
3 The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately .
4 It would , for example , be an extraordinary institution which could encompass a thousand or so adolescents and not encounter some difficulty .
5 A thousand or so pickers may crowd into a few square miles , followed closely by mushroom buyers whose pockets are stuffed with cash for spot purchases .
6 Though founded by the Vikings a thousand or so years ago it has , like most East Riding villages , very few really ancient buildings .
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