Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So we a number of us went away with lists of topics that we were going to write erm two hundred and fifty or so words about . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 7 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 8 | Although there are only 15 contractors , they have between them 50-odd transmitters , each of which needs two copies of the commercial ( at least ) , so allowing for your own copies and back-up stock , you will need 115 or so bulks for a national campaign . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Forty or so years after his escape he was engaged as a consultant on the film A Night to Remember , made at Pinewood . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 13 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 14 | The line reach Garth in May , Llanwrtyd in June 1867 and finally Llandovery in October 1868 , having traversed the two most significant engineering problems on this section — the Sugar Loaf tunnel and Cynghordy Viaduct . |
| 15 | The thin , external walls of the chimneys are porous and so oxygen from the outside atmosphere diffuses in . |
| 16 | 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 ; |
| 17 | ( July 24-Aug 23 ) Your ruler the Sun takes a swipe at Neptune on October 2 and then Jupiter on the 3rd . |
| 18 | There are 5 arm spines obscured by thick skin ; when denuded they appear glossy and quite rugose with large secondary points along the shaft of the spine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His models attempt to describe in formal mathematical terms the replacement of a population of one species by another and also situations in which pairs of species persist together as stable , mixed populations . |
| 21 | If you stay in the same place then the whole process of sexual reproduction means that indeed there are uniform populations which are hybridizing with one another and then barriers to other hybridizing population , but not if you move about . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In business studies there were generally six or so applicants for each place . |
| 27 | He was only 100 or so feet above the sea and we closed on him rapidly . |
| 28 | UA 1 is a collaboration of 100 or so physicists from Europe and the US , led by Alan Astbury from the UK 's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Carlo Rubbia from CERN . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | Leslie wrote 100 or so part-songs for the choir , including ‘ O Memory ’ , ‘ The Pilgrims ’ , and ‘ Annabelle Lee ’ , which became best sellers . |