Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] 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 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 11 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 12 | But it is not so easy for the new or little known candidates . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you 're not going to use them , the Richmond and Dales Talking Newspapers would love to have them they use them to buy cassettes on which to record the paper for the blind or partially sighted . |
| 17 | Specialised help from an adviser for visually handicapped pupils or a specialist teacher or mobility officer will be needed for the blind or virtually blind child to use the environment safely and this should be sought . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is suitable for the cold or lightly heated aquarium . |
| 21 | Here , for the nostalgic or merely curious among you , is the complete list of all the stuff we 've put out over the years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Many of the chalets are set on a hillside reached by steps — not ideal for the infirm or very young children . |
| 24 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | But as Carl Simonton , the radiation oncologist prominent in the holistic health movement , and others point out , this does not isolate diet as the sole or even the main cause and it is likely that cultural factors , for which Japan is unique among industrialised nations , may be more significant ( Simonton et al . |
| 29 | Murder is committed in those situations where D caused death by an act or omission which he knew had death as the probable or highly probable result . |
| 30 | Is it seen as the major or even sole macroeconomic policy weapon , or is it merely one of several policy weapons , and possibly a minor one at that ? |