Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In countries like Australia and New Zealand the leading players play in the region of 25 rep games a season , perhaps a dozen or so of which will be full internationals . |
| 2 | In chemical terms , though , the situation is much simpler , since all matter is composed of only a hundred or so elements . |
| 3 | Researchers around the world have only a dozen or so AFMs , compared with hundreds of STMs . |
| 4 | Cleared by the military Ohakea Control to climb into their airspace I coaxed a Grumman AA5 up to 11,000 feet , to look down into the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu , 9,175 feet high , to see steam and smoke coming from the crater within the torn and shattered peak of 6,517 foot Mount Tongariro ( whose last major eruption was only a dozen or so years back ) and to fly around the perfectly symmetrical cone of Mount Ngauruhoe . |
| 5 | Material from a smallpox pustule is introduced into the body of the person to be protected , by a light scratch , The patient should then receive a light dose of smallpox , with only a dozen or so pox , and lifetime active immunity . |
| 6 | The whistling frog from the Caribbean , which practises this technique , lays only a dozen or so , which it places on the ground . |
| 7 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 8 | It is possible to travel to almost any country within a day 's journey , yet when the mother of Jesus travelled a day 's journey to visit her cousin Elizabeth she probably managed only a dozen or so miles . |
| 9 | Behind comes a column of workers , scurrying along a dozen or so abreast , many of them carrying larvae . |
| 10 | Soon a dozen or so hands were raised and after their names had been written down and details of what their duties would involve the meeting was brought to a close . |
| 11 | The field of study is a local community ; perhaps just a hundred or so individuals , seldom many more than 2000 . |
| 12 | On other , more inclusive counts there were not a hundred or so nationalities in the USSR ( the 1989 census recorded 128 ) but as many as 400 , or even 800 . |
| 13 | The fight was not a long or bloody one . |
| 14 | I 'm not a fast or very good sketcher , evident by the early stages of the demonstration piece ! |
| 15 | I 'm not a fast or very good sketcher , evident by the early stages of the demonstration piece ! |
| 16 | There is also an income , usually a small or even negative net figure when costs are taken into account , for such trading services as markets , slaughterhouses , aerodromes , cemeteries and crematoria , and passenger transport . |
| 17 | Presumably a twelfth or so of the population are Leos , and they are n't all self-opinionated , domineering , power-mad — ’ |
| 18 | There are also a dozen or so whitish spots about half-pinhead size . |
| 19 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 20 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |
| 21 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 22 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 23 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 24 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr. Wilberforce and I agree that where we knew one instance of it thirty years ago , there are now a dozen or more . ’ |
| 29 | Dario Carella was n't a relative or even a friend . |
| 30 | Out of that 4,000 I saw maybe a dozen or so women . |