Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Postlethwait pioneered the influential " audio-tutorial " method of teaching freshman botany , stimulated by finding himself faced with the task of teaching freshman botany to some 500 and more new students every semester and with a timetable allocation of three weekly hours of lecture or lab time . |
| 2 | By 1914 , it has been estimated , the world 's diplomatic services included some 300 or so such attachés . |
| 3 | Previously , only the top forty or so top-winning show dogs were invited to compete . |
| 4 | At the end when the mare proved in foal , you 'd pay another three or maybe four pound . |
| 5 | Perhaps a new young star would make his insistent mark on the golfing heavens ; or , more likely , one of the top dozen or so established golfers would add to his bank balance . |
| 6 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 7 | But the first thing you must do , once you know the figure , take seventy- five per cent of it , if it 's up to forty-five thousand and obviously these are . |
| 8 | And he went on more explicitly to speak of that period ‘ some ten or even twenty years ago . ’ |
| 9 | Nonetheless , they have to be embraced as a first step in understanding the limits to where Africa may be in another twenty-five or even fifty years . |
| 10 | But we , w we as of nineteen forty nine or early nineteen fifty , it 's clear that we are , there , there , there 's nothing to stop us now going ahead with land reforms , there is no question it 's going to happen |
| 11 | Then from the back of the platform , where they had been seated , there stepped forward some twenty or perhaps thirty men , to whom were given silver plates containing little cubes of bread , and with these they moved down among the congregation … |
| 12 | Based in the international press room along with some 60 or so other reporters from around the world , Mace watches , records and listens , aware that any time , his imminent live report could easily be overtaken by events . |
| 13 | With the Further Education Centre now providing facilities for some 40 or more physical activity and Yoga classes , someone had to get her foot in at the door in those early days ! |
| 14 | In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines . |
| 15 | Only some of it — about 100 square kilometres — is fresh , for most of the year ; and there are another 60 or so square kilometres of freshwater marsh . |
| 16 | The situation was worsened when Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990 , as some 65 per cent of the country 's energy requirements were met by imported oil , and some 500,000 or more Filipino workers in the Middle East remitted between $1,000 million and $2,000 million each year . |
| 17 | Blake 's researches showed that there are some thirty or so basic messages which are used by the domestic horse , and there are another seventeen phrases that are used occasionally or in special situations , for example , those messages between a mare and her foal , or a stallion and a mare . |
| 18 | The ‘ one-last-pushers ’ of the Labour movement need to be reminded of the electoral mountain that remains to be climbed ( a mountain which , thanks to the Boundary Commission , will be some 20 or so Tory seats higher by the time of the next election ) . |
| 19 | The other three ( Vela , the Crab and PSR1509–58 ) are all associated with supernova remnants ( SNRs ) , whereas very few — perhaps four — of the remaining 500 or so galactic radio pulsars have convincing associations with SNRs . |
| 20 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 21 | The ‘ Collection ’ also features no less than five ‘ live ’ tracks from Hancock 's early '80s and primarily acoustic quartet featuring rising trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and once more Carter and Williams . |
| 22 | He 's described as white , in his early twenties and about six feet tall . |
| 23 | The rapist , who has a scar on his face , is in his early twenties and around five feet six tall . |
| 24 | So what was the overall effect of rent transfer , of agricultural output as a result of the abolition of rent landlords ? estimates that the rental land was thirty three percent of the total land area in ninetee in nineteen thirty and about thirteen percent of the total value of agricultural output was transferred amongst households as rent before land reform . |
| 25 | Francisco-based firm , aims to supply the product to the 10 000 or so American children who suffer from a deficiency of the hormone , which is vital for normal growth . |
| 26 | In a section entitled ‘ The British decline ’ he criticises the construction of essentially five prototype AGRs , the industrial arrangement of five , later three and now one construction consortia , and the abortive reassessment of reactor choice in 1972 where protagonists of the steam generating heavy water compared it favourably with AGRs and PWRs . |
| 27 | This ‘ splendid isolation ’ was explicable twenty or even ten years ago when the field of humanities computing was so wide open and the methods appropriate to historical teaching and research so poorly developed . |
| 28 | Er a similar cautious approach which none of them took yesterday when on examination it was found that there was more potential there than before , erm so to help with the figures I have found very helpful erm appendix eight to the er York City Council erm statement , I think it appears in both of their statements appendix eight Greater York housing provision sorry , could could I also direct you at the same time to the County Council 's N Y five appendix three now the , the two make interesting comparisons because they both start of with the same H one proposal of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , and I 'll remind you there , sir , that only five thousand seven hundred of those are required by the existing population , four thousand of those are for migrants , and the two schedules go of in slightly different directions under the heading of completions , and the reason for that , sir , is that the the Greater York , the er County Council 's figures , as you can see were computed in October nineteen ninety two when only seven hundred dwellings had been completed , yet six months later , under item C for the Greater York er housing provision figure , York Ci York City Council figures , the completions were one thousand and sixty three . |
| 29 | Yes , I er I went in February nineteen ninety two and certainly this was a great privilege to be there for , was it , three weeks ? |
| 30 | So the net earnings of the of the office , coming back to nineteen ninety , ninety one , er were fifteen million , they 've dropped to fourteen point four million in ninety one , ninety two and hopefully this year , they 've steadied at that and maybe will increase a small amount to fourteen point six million . |