Example sentences of "[conj] take a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 2 | The lifetimes of DNA messages ( give or take a few mutations ) are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years ; or , in other words , ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes . |
| 3 | ‘ About 11.15 , give or take a few minutes . ’ |
| 4 | Well you always know that you know when they say twelve foot six it is n't quite right , they give or take a few inches . |
| 5 | Er and I said , Give or take a few days , and she said , Yeah . |
| 6 | Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 . |
| 7 | ‘ Give or take a few sandbanks . |
| 8 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 9 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 10 | He may well go into shock and take a few months to accept the inevitability of family life . |