Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] or [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And possibly either after that or simultaneously with that or to transfer there , he might go up to live in his father 's house up in Yorkshire , Mytholmroyd er er I du n no but it seems to me that if there is a worse place to be unemployed than Wolverhampton , West Riding has got ta be erm a competitor |
| 2 | Substantial flocks were also recorded elsewhere during the period , for example of 100 or more at Burton ponds , Knepp lake , Barcombe Reservoir , and Piddinghoe pond . |
| 3 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 4 | An arbitral tribunal is often composed of three or sometimes of five individuals , but all those individuals take a full part in the proceedings . |
| 5 | At least 4 out of 16 ( 25 per cent ) of the adolescents had reached the age of sixteen or more without receiving any information from adults about sexually transmitted diseases and contraception . |
| 6 | But in fact it is not necessarily the case that if each person votes , or decides , according to what he or she perceives as his or her personal interest or wishes , the outcome is the good of all or even of the majority . |
| 7 | Playing to audiences of 20,000 or more in America , England , France , Austria and Italy at the end of last century , Annie could split playing cards in two with a .22 pistol , shoot glass balls out of the air from the back of a galloping horse or over her shoulder using a mirror for sighting . |
| 8 | If you want to use dropper bottles they can be obtained singly from dispensing chemists or in quantities of 50 or more from The Homœopathic Supply co. ( tel. 0263 824683 ) |
| 9 | Michael Slater then reaffirmed his current form with 64 his seventh score of 50 or more in 10 innings . |
| 10 | 10% discount for parties of ten or more on advance bookings for Main House shows — unless otherwise stated . |
| 11 | The elimination for cooling requirements and the use of integrated circuit fabrication techniques to produce the image 's solid state detectors are expected to bring the costs of future models down by a factor of ten or more to under £1000 . |
| 12 | The Pixel Semiconductor Inc unit of Cirrus Logic Inc has introduced the CL-PX0072 Video Window Generator I , a Microsoft Corp Video for Windows-compatible chip that features HiQ8 proprietary colour enhancement technology to provide high-quality picture resolutions ; samples from Cirrus Logic cost $32 in quantities of 10,000 or more with volume planned for the current quarter . |
| 13 | Since for each item there is a 50 per cent chance of a correct response simply by guessing , children with scores of 8 or less on any set are regarded as in need of retesting , while very low scores ( 0–1 ) indicate that the child is systematically misunderstanding the meanings to be derived from word order . |
| 14 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 15 | Afterwards we split up into various groups , and and I had another formal introduction to one of the ‘ production teams ’ ( which is really a little hamlet with a population of 200 or so near the town ) . |
| 16 | We also know that there are over 3,000 centenarians now in Great Britain , compared with a couple of hundred or so in 1950 . |
| 17 | The first covers those sites where the main occupation is focused around the junction of two or more through routes . |
| 18 | One could then find out what else was available on emigration , or on Cornish tin-miners , or on southern Wisconsin , or the nineteenth century , or any permutation of two or more in relation to other topics , such as the design of houses or the techniques of mining , or at another level of student understanding , or another format entirely . |
| 19 | Back in Moose Jaw , busy with newspaper and radio work , it was not long before I was engaged in preparing and delivering a series of illustrated talks on musical appreciation on Wednesday evenings to audiences of 900 or more in the public auditorium of the Technical School . |
| 20 | In on large study , the perinatal mortality risk increased by 20 per cent for the infants of smokers of less than 20 per day and by 35 per cent for smokers of 20 or more per day , compared with that of non-smokers. ( 5 ) The risk is greater in women who are poor , anaemic or have had several children . |
| 21 | Following the ejection of Richard Baxter along with 2,000 or so of his fellow pastors in 1662 , these Nonconforming ministers were persecuted ruthlessly by the authorities . |
| 22 | However it applied only to firms with 15 or more on the payroll . |
| 23 | Correspondingly acquisition is different from storage in that the latter implies a formal recording possibly in short-term or possibly in long-term memory . |
| 24 | Word lengths vary from 12 or less to 64 or more bits , typical lengths being 16 and 32 bits . |
| 25 | Natural law and rights theories , positivism and contextualism , are in this sense no longer incompatible theories of the law but enter into the legal languages or dialects which are spoken in different or even in the same legal systems . |
| 26 | He then became an assistant to an Essex doctor , returning to his father late in 1762 or early in 1763 . |
| 27 | It could then be opened for signature later in 1992 or early in 1993 , to enter into force once ratified by 65 countries . |
| 28 | What is more , by 2003 , if their arms-cutting promises are kept , America and Russia will still have about 3,000 strategic nuclear warheads each ( down from 11,000 or so in 1990 ) . |
| 29 | Archer 's treatise The Personall Reigne of Christ upon Earth was published in London late in 1641 or early in 1642 , and predicted that the millennium was close at hand . |
| 30 | Sir Alec Cairncross , a former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury , heaps praise on the Attlee governments at the end of his highly regarded study Years of Recovery : ‘ Whether one tries to look forward from 1945 or backwards from forty years later , those years appear in retrospect , and rightly so , as years when the government knew where it wanted to go and led the country with an understanding of what was at stake . |