Example sentences of "[adj] [art] [adj] or so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , river dolphins and catfish inhabit the same river , and between 1950 and 1980 , about half the 100 or so baiji found dead had died from swallowing or being snagged by fish hooks . |
| 2 | The Folkeskole is a unified ten-year school ( ages 7–17 ) : ‘ Just over half the 1,900 or so folkeskoler have 10 forms ’ . |
| 3 | Half a one or so I suppose . |
| 4 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 5 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 6 | The main road from Lulling to its nearest neighbouring Cotswold town ran along one side of Thrush Green , and a less important lane threading its way to half a dozen or so sleepy little hamlets , skirted the other side . |
| 7 | As fine a herd of slaves as you could wish — one hundred and twenty prime males and another seventy young females , half a dozen or so children and two suckling babes . |
| 8 | I 'll tell you what else you can do ; you can make half a dozen or so of those currant buns of yours and take them with you on Saturday as a kind of present for the lady . ’ |
| 9 | Apart from having to compete with the other half a dozen or so suppliers like Santa Cruz Operation Inc and Sun , USL has no real marketing experience . |
| 10 | Essential will serve and support the existing half a dozen or so dealers , VARs and system integrators that already offer BBC 's software in the UK . |
| 11 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 12 | Baby shrews are born in litters of half a dozen or so . |
| 13 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 14 | And er I told them that er I was n't p p p prepared er because they was there during the day as well , it did n't used to across to catch the school bus , and be half a dozen or so come back next door , and stop there till about twenty past three then go back , come back over as if he 's got out the bus . |
| 15 | Beneath her feet large paving slabs formed a diamond pattern , while above her head stiff-framed sun umbrellas cast their shadows over half a dozen or so people enjoying the quiet scene . |
| 16 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 17 | All the 1,000 or so retinal ganglion cells that are maximally excited by rotation about one particular axis , whatever their positions in the visual field , project to one of the three divisions of the nucleus of the accessory optic tract ; similarly all those excited by rotations about the other two also go to their appropriate subdivisions . |
| 18 | Trinity College at Cambridge can claim more members of the Order than all the 30 or so colleges at Oxford put together ( 25 against 20 ) . |
| 19 | And although the head count of ‘ nation states ’ within that organisation is increasing by the year , it is unlikely ever to encompass all the 4,000 or so distinct peoples that UN-sponsored studies have identified as existing in the world . |