Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] so [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the war they built 1,135 Mosquitos , before going on to produce fifty or so Fox Moths — and then their own indigenous designs after the conflict ceased . |
| 2 | Revenues generated from VAXes grew 22% to £11.1m , and although Turner said that licence sales ‘ have really slowed ’ because people are n't buying the machines much any more , a high proportion of the £11.1m came from maintenance and services to the group 's existing 500 or so VAX customers . |
| 3 | So , are all forty or so law amendments to be booted swiftly into touch ? |
| 4 | At the ‘ community ’ level , most of the 300 or so species populations studied in the large plot on Barro Colorado Island discussed above show positively correlated survival with distance from reproductive adults up to 15 m . |
| 5 | LET'S Enjoy Your Car Life ’ is the slogan written in big English letters to lure customers into Autobacs Seven 's 300 or so service stations . |
| 6 | There are 1500 or so bronze casts of Degas ' sculpture , not one cast in his lifetime |
| 7 | Many of its 100 or so Ph.D graduates hold senior posts in academia and industry , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 8 | The 158 or so student societies are funded by the Students ' Association . |
| 9 | After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households . |
| 10 | He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps . |
| 11 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 12 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 13 | Think instead about Quinta Paraiso da Mia , on the big sandy Luz Bay , just outside Lagos : a dozen or so apartment buildings linked by pathways in a shady garden , a minute 's walk from the beach . |
| 14 | The new hospital will care for the annual 3,000 or so wildlife casualties in the area . |
| 15 | Despite the recent re-issue of Rewald 's classic monograph , we still lack a true catalogue raisonné , bringing together all the visual and documentary material and engaging with the fundamental issues ; for example , after the sensational exhibition of the Mellon waxes at the National Gallery in Washington in 1991 , there is an even greater need for a study of the relationship of the waxes to the 1,500 or so bronze casts scattered throughout the world ; more understanding of Degas ' techniques and the reproductive processes used by his founder is urgently required ; a consideration of the images themselves , and their place in contemporary sculpture , is conspicuous by its absence ; and , the biggest question of all , the role of these wax figures in the wider oeuvre cries out to be examined . |
| 16 | 130 beta NT copies are now with UK corporates , a further 2,500 will be delivered this month : at least 10% of the 45,000 or so NT developer kits shipped worldwide have landed in the UK . |
| 17 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
| 18 | Behind a grid , there is strong turbulent energy production for the first ten or so grid mesh-lengths along the tunnel ; the turbulence then becomes substantially isotropic and decays with distance down the tunnel . |
| 19 | If a list of set books had been included in the Statutory Orders , it is easy to imagine how after ten or so years teachers would be desperately trying to change it , with old-fashioned Members of Parliament resisting in lively debates . |
| 20 | These factors led to a pattern of ‘ top-ten ’ thinking It is repeatedly stated that in each major industry sector — and in the world electronics industry itself — only ten or so world players will survive . |
| 21 | There , 50 or so textile mills produce what is widely acknowledged to be the finest wool cloth in the world . |
| 22 | In the village of Dara , Rafiq is a legal businessman , one of 50 or so hashish traders operating side by side with the gun dealers . |
| 23 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development plc . |
| 24 | However , a group of 50 or so Unemployment Benefit claimants are now busy dusting off their old skills and even learning some new ones on the East Lancashire Railway , thanks to Practical Skills Development Plc . |
| 25 | The most zealous founders of the BFASS in 1839 were amongst those who had worked hardest to revitalise the local society network in the mid-1830s and so Joseph Sturge , John Scoble and the Quaker banker George Alexander toured areas of the country in 1839–40 to give the new national body the support of auxiliaries consciously orientated to universal abolition . |
| 26 | Twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside , fresh from a night 's work . |
| 27 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 28 | The change will transform Italy 's 65 or so savings banks . |
| 29 | Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms . |
| 30 | In most of the state 's 900 or so water districts farmers often have priority in the use of water . |