Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 2 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 3 | The line reach Garth in May , Llanwrtyd in June 1867 and finally Llandovery in October 1868 , having traversed the two most significant engineering problems on this section — the Sugar Loaf tunnel and Cynghordy Viaduct . |
| 4 | His models attempt to describe in formal mathematical terms the replacement of a population of one species by another and also situations in which pairs of species persist together as stable , mixed populations . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 7 | Only 5ft 8ins tall and under 10st in weight , he covers the ground quicker than anyone I have recently seen , with the exception of one he resembles , South Africa 's Jonty Rhodes . |
| 8 | After the nest is complete and around 30cm in diameter , the male nudges the female under it and egg laying begins . |
| 9 | The Who 's Who is a book of weighty significance masquerading as a fun succession of player profiles compiled from questionnaires sent to the top 350 or so players in the four home countries . |
| 10 | Indeed , there is a pressure group to get more women MPs , called the 300 Group , which seeks 300 out of the 600 or so seats in Parliament for women . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Urodeles usually have a dozen or so vertebrae in their spines ; a caecilian , however , may have as many as 270 . |
| 14 | Of the dozen or so choirs in the Navy , including two in Gibraltar and Hong Kong , the one in Greenwich has sufficient expertise to record hymns for use in ships at sea . |
| 15 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The resources necessary to discharge the functions of a surveying practice may not be scarce , but these functions grow increasingly costly and therefore efficiency in the application of those resources is essential in running a successful practice . |
| 19 | Hungary 's trade with the Soviet Union accounted for 30% of total trade in 1980 but about 20% in 1990 . |
| 20 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 21 | Critics and the viewing public were quite accustomed to seeing the nude and even courtisanes in pictures . |
| 22 | This we traced to a cylindrical metal box ( about 2′ long and about 8″ in diameter ) located under the nearside front wheelarch . |
| 23 | Form into a roll about 46cm/18in long and about 2.5cm/1in in diameter . |
| 24 | ( To understand the violence of this explosion , we can realize that a supernova may temporarily shine brighter than all the rest of the 100 billion or so stars in its galaxy put together . ) |
| 25 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 26 | Laser light can now give us more than just music in our ears . |
| 27 | In the 1980s Soviet and DRA leaders have persistently claimed that Afghanistan remains non-aligned whatever its bilateral links with the Soviet Union ( and this is meant to imply more than just membership in the Non-Aligned Movement ) . |
| 28 | The agriculture of small farmers remained undeveloped , while the industrial sector which was small but had considerable potential with the influx of the coastal refugee population received no single investment of more than about $28,000 in the whole period . |
| 29 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 30 | There were twenty or so people in the room . |