Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] or [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 2 | He did , however , miss the opportunity to improve our dental and general health and collect another billion or so by placing a heavy excise duty on sugar , chocolate and other confectionery , on which we spend over £4 billion a year . |
| 3 | The bass clef is the normal one used for tenor trombones , the tenor clef being used for the top fifth or so of their compass . |
| 4 | Incidentally , if you 're stuck without a copy of this song , it 's available on a CD released in 1988 , a compilation of some twenty or so of Gene 's recorded tracks in the ‘ Rock And Roll Masters ’ series from EMI Records , catalogue number CDP 7903282 . |
| 5 | From the late seventies , to the nineteen eighties or rather from the from the seventies , not just late seventies , to the nineteen eighties , it 's come down about a thousand broad terms , a thousand dwellings a year fewer being built . |
| 6 | It is known that none of the three thousand or so of letters were received by the children until their return home . |
| 7 | With just three thousand or so of the origional travellers left neighbouring police forces are on standby in case the travellers try to converge on another site to stage an impromtue festival this weekend . |
| 8 | But final family size can not be known until women are in their late 30s or well into their second decade of marriage . |
| 9 | So I 'll simply suggest , on as yet limited evidence , that of the present nap-hand or so of offspinners with the apparent potential to elevate their status . |
| 10 | The thickness of this unit is normally about 50 m around the margin of the basin , decreasing to 5 m or less in more central parts ( Fig. 4a ) , but locally in Poland and the U.K. it reaches 100–120 m . |
| 11 | ‘ Fast moving ’ glaciers slid forwards in the valleys at 50 m or so per year . |
| 12 | Er , we were , as I say , responsible more or less for staff erm and er so we were pretty busy really . |
| 13 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 14 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 15 | When you first purchase the machine , only the first dozen or so of these palettes will actually be programmed . |
| 16 | The indexer has access to schedules that the searcher in general does not have available online or even in printed form ; thus there is likely to be a mismatch between the indexers ' and searchers ' perspectives . |
| 17 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 18 | To equip the definitions in his Dictionary , one third or so of nearly a hundred and twenty thousand quotations come from Shakespeare — many , it seems , chosen as much for their philosophical or moral point as for their usage value . |
| 19 | At Chalton , the largest structures measured 9 m or more in length , and are characterised by opposed doorways in the centre of the long sides , flanked by pairs of postholes ( Addyman , Leigh and Hughes 1972 ) . |
| 20 | Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment . |
| 21 | The most famous ( or notorious ) is the giant squid at 15 m or more in length , but some of the extinct ammonites and nautiloids were of similar dimension , and were the largest shelled animals ever to have lived . |
| 22 | and probably if you go from about twenty five or somewhere round there , you 'll get the context of it |
| 23 | Can you do one of me ? ’ , until I 'd completed twenty five or so in the space of about two months . |
| 24 | Erm on the on the twenty third or thereabouts on the twenty third of March of this year I myself got stopped for drink driving . |
| 25 | According to one loyalist thirties thirty or so of his colleagues think it 's more fun to vote against the Government , a smaller number go further , they think a spell in opposition might enhance their own careers . |
| 26 | ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station . |
| 27 | Today , when reclamation is carried out with the use of expensive mechanical equipment , it is not profitable to start until a strip , 200 m or more in width , is ready . |
| 28 | But there does not seem any necessity for other galaxies to exist , let alone the million million or so of them that we see distributed roughly uniformly throughout the observable universe . |
| 29 | It would probably be dark for the last half-mile or so of his walk home . |