Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you hear it said that we are going to live with stable currencies or even with a single currency for Europe ; that recovery will be slow ; that inflation will stay down while interest rates stay up — poison for precious metals . |
| 2 | There wo n't be another strike for a further forty minutes or so at least , which is why I want you and Pearce out of here now . |
| 3 | If you receive payment for looking after one or more children who are not related to you , for 2 hours or more per day , then you should , by law , register with your local Social Services Department . |
| 4 | Membership is automatic if you are at least 16 years old and work for 30 hours or more per week . |
| 5 | Teacher : Are there more children with brown eyes or more with blue eyes ? |
| 6 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 7 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 8 | ‘ While tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25pc of mortgages outstanding , and the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 9 | ‘ Whilst tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25 per cent of mortgages outstanding , and at the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear . |
| 10 | At 31 January , 1993 , the number of mortgages where payments were 12 months or more in arrears had risen 24 per cent to 22,486 , representing 0.51 per cent of mortgage balances . |
| 11 | Charles Roe had , in places , taken his mine down some 188 feet or so below the old 17C. workings , themselves about 181 ft. deep from surface ; and had worked along the strike of the Bonsor Vein for perhaps 150 fathoms . |
| 12 | Britain 's local councils charge £6-10 a ton to put solid waste in landfills : a price , say the commercial firms , that does not reflect capital investment or the sums that must be et aside to ensure a landfill is properly maintained during its 30 years or so of life . |
| 13 | It undoubtedly appears from this report that , among other factors , decision making in risk management is not consistent across different banks or even within banks ; bank managers give a disproportionate attention to the small business 's founders ' ability to provide security for a loan when assessing risk ; and , although the business plan to recruit a director to handle IT issues was crucial to the company 's success , most of the bank managers interviewed paid scant attention to that factor . |
| 14 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 15 | Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud . |
| 16 | Such leases are generally either very badly converted English leases or else in the form of stale Scottish styles , unchanged by time or circumstance . |
| 17 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 18 | Crossing the garden became a frequent pleasure as the five comfortable apartments , named after French regions — ours was Bordeaux — are in a recently converted timbered building 30 yards or so from the house . |
| 19 | Therefore even if we accept the military estimates of the ‘ probable ’ accuracy of such weapons ( 300 metres or more for ‘ tactical ’ weapons , with somewhat greater accuracy for the ‘ battlefield ’ types ) this still means the statistical inevitability of some inaccuracy ( Weston , 1983 ; United Nations , 1981 ; Krass and Smith , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 21 | The firemen 's department was filled with men from inland towns or anywhere from whence they could be obtained . |
| 22 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 23 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 24 | Meanwhile make gravy by stirring flour into 2 tbs or so of pan juices over heat , with mushrooms still in pan . |
| 25 | The territorial spread and regional significance , up to 30 miles or so beyond the LCC boundary , now provided the occasion for a planning study of seminal importance , updating that by Unwin of ten years past . |
| 26 | Woosnam failed from eight feet or less on four of the opening six holes , and it proved crucial as Ogle rattled in four birdies in a 69 before snatching the biggest win of his career . |
| 27 | It said the victims succumbed in gardening allotments , rural areas or simply on the street . |
| 28 | Pompeii , approximately eight kilometres from Vesuvius , was buried over three metres deep in pumice in A.D. 79 , and the total volume ejected in the forty-eight hours or so of that eruption was probably about three cubic kilometres . |
| 29 | Central bodies were not to negotiate on the transfer of facilities to Lithuanian jurisdiction ( on March 13 the Lithuanian Supreme Council had passed a bill establishing the principle of Lithuanian jurisdiction over all economic facilities in the republic currently held solely by the USSR central authorities or jointly with Lithuania ) . |
| 30 | Six months or so of this produced not only a degree of understandable tedium -even the most terrifying things can become boring if lived with long enough — but what I would call an inverse effect . |