Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it earned a reprieve , this time it wo n't — a sobering thought for the sixty or so staff who are losing their jobs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 4 | She can barely move in her Gloucestershire home for the 200 or so ticking treasures jostling for space on the walls , mantelpieces and floors — anywhere where there 's a minute space to be had . |
| 5 | For the 200 or so who attended , everyone appeared to have been unanimous in believing that the scheme had been wholly beneficial in broadening cultural life in villages . |
| 6 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 7 | And he believes there is room for the 11 or so independent manufacturers in this country . |
| 8 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |
| 9 | Perhaps by then the Government may have some strategy that will provide work for the million or so unemployed that it overlooks while compiling the official figures . |
| 10 | While SUGA is mainly a group for social events and self-help , the local carers officer , help members to plan sessions on careers guidance for the 50 or so members . |
| 11 | The Ukrainian settlement in the north west has always been close-knit and Ivan Solowka soon found himself running a club for the 20 or so families in Middleton . |
| 12 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 13 | Walkers who have visited the caves and potholes already mentioned , and enjoyed doing so , will be sorely tempted to stay on the limestone shelf and search for the dozen or more other similar openings hereabouts and then return to the Hill Inn for refreshment . |
| 14 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 15 | It 's also put together a rescue strategy for the 40 or so licencees of the former MIPS Computer Systems Inc Risc/OS which will allow them to migrate over to Unix SVR4 : the MIPS operating system is being retired by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 16 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |
| 17 | During the ten or so years leading up to the inauguration of Channel Four in 1982 many proposals were considered but there seemed to be a degree of agreement amongst those favouring a novel form of organization that allocating the ‘ fourth channel ’ to the commercial sector would only |
| 18 | If this guillotine motion goes through , what do I do about the thousand or so letters that I have downstairs ? |
| 19 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 20 | We go through the dozen or so photograph albums that Christine has made up for her , and Anna points out her grown-up ‘ sisters ’ , Christine and Sarah-Jane ; she also names her nieces and nephews for me . |
| 21 | Out of the 2,300 or so public limited companies ( Aktiengesellchaften , or AG ) , only 619 have ordinary shares quoted or traded on the stockmarket ( which is 80 more than at end-1989 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ We checked my symptoms in some of the six or so books we had on the subject of birth , but none of them matched up with what I was feeling . |
| 23 | The religious observances of the inhabitants of Corbridge are well attested , not only through the structural remains of the six or so temples which lined the south side of the main east-west street near the military compounds but also through the number of dedications and items of religious sculpture which have been recovered from the site ; quite a number , though , of the dedications were made by military personnel or army units . |
| 24 | But for each of the thousand or so explicitly identifiable speech acts there are just as many for which there is neither a name nor a lexical indicator . |
| 25 | If you visit a biochemistry laboratory , you will often find on the wall a ‘ metabolic chart ’ , usually supplied as an advertisement by a drug company , giving the names and chemical formulae of the thousand or more organic compounds commonly found in cells , connected by arrows indicating which substances can be directly transformed into which others . |
| 26 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 27 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 28 | Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian . |
| 29 | Of the 300,000 or so American troops based in Europe until the start of the Gulf crisis last summer , perhaps only 100,000 , maybe fewer , are expected to remain . |
| 30 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |