Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 2 | UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN . |
| 3 | It was also agreed that the 100 or so people from each country involved in the exchange should be accompanied by 70 journalists and a 70-member art troupe from each side . |
| 4 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 5 | He joined the bank as an accountant in 1881 , and rose to become managing director in 1898 and also chairman from 1908 to 1919 . |
| 6 | Social work 's image has suffered over the past dozen or so years from a series of scandals where agencies ' failures have been highlighted , often with total disregard to their successes . |
| 7 | ‘ Where the gas seeped weakly over the rock , ten thousand or so miles from the blasted pits of volcanic ore that blazed with the light of a thousand suns , there I made my abhorred discovery … ’ ’ |
| 8 | A hundred and seventy or so girls from all over Oxfordshire gathered at Iffley Road this afternoon to learn about scrummaging … rucking and what exactly constitutes a forward pass . |
| 9 | ‘ He has sent two orderlies to get another ten or so men from the morgue . |
| 10 | At the other point the primary experiment UA2 has been put together by 50 or so researchers from France , Denmark , Italy , Switzerland and CERN under the leadership of Pierre Daulat . |
| 11 | Indeed , it is the closest planet to the Sun and at its maximum elongations is never more than about 28° from the Sun . |
| 12 | Walesa claimed that this threatened to confuse people and to produce an indecisive parliament of many small parties , and apparently preferred a system where voters would choose a party first and then candidates from a party list . |
| 13 | Walesa said that this would lead to a fragmented and weak parliament and that he preferred a system in which voters would choose a party first and then candidates from a party list . |
| 14 | I wasn ‘ t much use as my back was still sore , but Sean , Josef and 15 or so pupils from the local school — all of them refugees — emptied the lorry by 09:00 . |
| 15 | Because FM waves travel only 60 or so miles from a transmitter , they provide essentially a local pool of sound . |
| 16 | And then John at teatime , the football from seven and then John from ten till midnight , on the county 's favourite radio station , it 's B B C Radio Nottingham at two o'clock . |