Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 2 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 3 | Life proceeds at a gentle , traditional pace today for the 500 or so residents of Cotherstone Kelvin Walker runs his general store and petrol pumps ( and taxi service ) the Post Office also sells the superb Cotherstone cheese , and there are two excellent public houses . |
| 4 | The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney . |
| 5 | for children 's and teenagers ' wellbeing — they have to learn rules , roles and skills in order to develop self-esteem and self-control , and these attributes are , in the end , liberating and also signs of growing maturity ; |
| 6 | This is a curved surface in a moving airflow which simply bends the wind , causing a pressure difference between the windward and leeward sides of the sail . |
| 7 | This is lower than both types of silicon-based cell , but the thin-film cell is much cheaper to make . |
| 8 | He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques . |
| 9 | Art construction in all its forms is simply the choosing of separate or possibly groups of atoms and molecules from diverse existing structures and re-grouping them with mental science . |
| 10 | I explained that this would make no difference as the results would be the same , whether the past lives were real or simply figments of her imagination . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | But the invitation has now been widened to include 100 or so members of parliament , partly because of their new willingness to negotiate , partly to counter-balance the heads of 11 of Russia 's 19 semi-autonomous republics who have already rejected the draft . |
| 13 | I gathered together the various sawn-up and wrenched-apart pieces of putter and put them in a drawer . |
| 14 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 15 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 16 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 17 | But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered . |
| 18 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 19 | Because the early metronome and the 35 or so tempos of French Baroque works calculated from them by 18th-century French writers have already been well documented and discussed in recent studies , particularly in respect to dance tempos , they will not be discussed further here . |
| 20 | He argued that the public did not stand at the box-office window and demand dramas with happy endings or which mixed pathos and humour , nor did it demand comedy made up of ‘ slapstick ’ , ‘ gags ’ with ‘ three or so dashes of serious situation and a bit of irony to top off ’ . |
| 21 | As long as the volume of work undertaken by house-building firms is dependent either upon local authority contracts or upon the doling out at yearly or half-yearly intervals of a meagre number of individual licences , so long will increased productivity , and the gearing to it of the output of the building materials industry , be impossible . |
| 22 | After retirement these expectations may no longer even be relevant , yet habits die hard and probably patterns of caring have already been established which will go on exerting an influence even though there is no longer any need . |
| 23 | In any particular society , real life suggests to us that the answers are neither black nor white but rather shades of grey . |
| 24 | It is also questionable whether all types of organisations lend themselves to empowerment . |
| 25 | Around her squealed and shouted the sixty or so pupils of Thrush Green Church of England Primary School . |
| 26 | Then the thousand or so readers of a few imported fashion magazines ( which it seemed would be prohibited because they contained foreign tobacco advertisements ) momentarily rallied key support from the free speech lobby . |
| 27 | Non-maintained schools accounted for another 252,000 or so children of primary age ( Government Statistical Service , 1989 , Tables 12 and 16 ; DES , 1988 , Table A1 ) . |
| 28 | Officers stood guard at the gates of the cemetery , making sure that only members of the official funeral cortege entered to attend the burial service . |
| 29 | ‘ It has certainly taken a great deal of time for myself and the other ten or so members of our committee . |
| 30 | During a stay in Italy de Superville produced 2,500 or so drawings of Tuscan , Umbrian and Roman works of art , intended to be used as illustrations for a history of art . |