Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [adj] or so " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be published by Phaidon , it will cover the 1,000 or so Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection of the Duke of Devonshire . |
| 2 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State share many people 's concern about the fate of some 100,000 Soviet or ex-Soviet nuclear scientists who seem to be voting with their feet , particularly those who appear to have the skills to dismantle the 27,000 or so warheads , and the possibility that those skills may be lost ? |
| 4 | Around her squealed and shouted the sixty or so pupils of Thrush Green Church of England Primary School . |
| 5 | Try to catch a dozen or so adult ladybirds or larvae and place them in your aphid cage . |
| 6 | Only a handful of producers — say a dozen or so — regard wine as a viable commercial proposition . |
| 7 | As I drove the fifty or so miles back home I thought that I would rewrite the story , the history rather , of the Butcher . |
| 8 | Researchers have discovered that significant changes in the same songs have been copied by humpbacks on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean within 6 days , far faster than a whale could swim the 5000 or so km ( 3250 miles ) . |
| 9 | Once the basic outline of the artist 's sketches were reproduced , it was up to a team of colourists , some obviously better than others , to colour the 200 or so copies of each plate . |
| 10 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 11 | Instead of one large corporate body , like the BBC , ITV comprised a dozen or so smaller production companies , all making , and prerecording , programmes for sale to each other and overseas . |
| 12 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 13 | After landing , which included the formalities of a lecture on the dangers of picking up unidentified objects , we were transported the sixty or so kilometres into the capital town of Stanley , and deposited at our hotel on the waterfront . |
| 14 | It showed a dozen or so young men casually grouped around a bench on a sunlit lawn , wearing knife-creased flannels and striped blazers : the very antithesis of student life in the sixties . |
| 15 | ‘ And do you think a dozen or so irregulars are going to break a way into Parfois ? |
| 16 | He thought people still enjoyed the simple retelling of the key mysteries of the faith , stories they knew and loved , and seeing a hundred or so Christians joining together in such a project could only commend the Church . |
| 17 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 18 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 19 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll just tidy these up , ’ said her host , stuffing a dozen or so unwashed socks behind the grubby cushion . |
| 21 | The shoals could still number a hundred or so . |
| 22 | If we disregard the 200 or so pulp novels written early in his career , we are left with 193 novels of which the Maigret series is the most famous . |
| 23 | I practically fell through the door to the balcony , shut it after me , turned left , scrambled the twenty or so feet to the door in the south-west corner and plunged through , closing this too . |
| 24 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |
| 25 | Nor must I omit a dozen or so Turkish friends , whose friendship I was able to resume years later , above all Aziz and Ulviye Isvar and my closest Turkish friend — indeed one of my closest friends — Naci Ortaç , whose wife was the daughter of a Grand Vizier . |
| 26 | Busy accountants would obviously like to save the 100 or so hours of training time that structured CPE can save them ( through the difference between obtaining the recommended target of 150 CPE points from 50 structured hours or 150 unstructured hours ) . |
| 27 | But to say " all barristers in chambers at 4 Dr Johnson 's Buildings are thieves " would be sufficiently specific to allow the dozen or so barristers in those chambers to take action . |
| 28 | We will review the 80 or so statutory restrictions which exist on the disclosure of information — retaining only those needed to protect privacy and essential confidentiality . |
| 29 | The money had been donated by Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin , but Haibara refused to name the 60 or so politicians to whom the money was later distributed to assist with their re-election campaigns . |
| 30 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |