Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be all the difference in the world between 500 and about 500 , and it 's important to know the margins of tolerance a person is using in order to interpret them . |
| 2 | SunSoft holds quarterly DOE non-disclosure updates for 75 or more independent software vendors under the auspices of a Distributed Object Council , and has up to 100 engineers working on object stuff . |
| 3 | Between 1985 and early this year , the krona lost about 25% against the D-mark . |
| 4 | An hour is , e.g. divided into sixty minutes , the second into sixty parts and so on ; at last after ten or more successive divisions by sixty , time-elements are obtained which are not subjected to division , and in fact are indivisible . ’ |
| 5 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 6 | After two or more good seasons in succession , predatory birds become markedly more plentiful . |
| 7 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 8 | • And if you yourself are in hospital for 10 or more consecutive nights in any 30-day period , your monthly payments will be refunded , for up to six months in any year . |
| 9 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 10 | Wally received a Benefit at the end of 1953–54 and almost 4,000 admirers turned out to see the Palace beat a London XI by six goals to five ! |
| 11 | Most churches have six bells , some have a full octave of eight and about 90 churches , mostly cathedrals , have 12 . |
| 12 | when they used to put er the muck on the fields they used to put so many loads of eight and so many heaps of the well , when they pulled it out of the room they 'd pulls out the crome . |
| 13 | The Royal Air Forces Association is a Registered Charity with a membership of 110,000 and over 600 branches worldwide . |
| 14 | The figures given are readings from from single experiments , typical of 2 or more independent determinations . |
| 15 | To go back to 1700 is to look at a life that is very little different , for most men and women , from that of 1500 or even 1200 . |
| 16 | Each major department has at its headquarters a group of 100 or so civil servants , from the grade of ‘ principal ’ up to ‘ permanent secretary ’ , who are concerned with decisions of a ‘ policy ’ kind , many of which require ministerial approval . |
| 17 | The only source of security , the sole refuge from this malevolent world , is in the kindred and the band , that tight little group of 100 or so other people with whom one 's life is bound up from the cradle to the grave . |
| 18 | If code switching is a regular feature of all speech styles in British black English , except perhaps the most formal , then the index of each speaker will actually be based on two distinct , discontinuous stretches of speech ; one which will have a Patois index of 100 or very close , ( i.e. no Patois features , because it is actually not meant to be Patois , but " English " ) and another — the Patois part — which will have a Patois index closer to 0 . |
| 19 | The same applies to the examples that I discuss in chapter 4 : some of these show gross differences between social groups on the basis of hundreds or even thousands of tokens , which would not be apparent without quantification . |
| 20 | It consists of 10 or more Higher National Unit credits . |
| 21 | Other , less molecular , biologists had protested in outrage that what was true for E. coli was not necessarily true for E.lephant , that biology has its diversity as well as its universals and that multicellular organisms with complex brains are not merely aggregates of 10 or so single cells ; the properties of systems of cells include relationships between those cells which are not inherent in any single unit . |
| 22 | The Royal Mail generally evokes in the reader 's mind an image of a coachman with horn , and an armed guard , dashing through the night behind a team of six or more lathered horses . |
| 23 | I 've not seen a double yoke egg for a long , long time , I do n't know why , but sometimes you used to get a box of six and nearly all of them would be double yoke for some reason , do n't ask me why , I do n't know , where 's your cup ? , did you bring it in ? |
| 24 | Mrs Edna Wall remembers Mrs Bessie Forde and Mrs Cooper as leaders marching the band of 90 or so little ones in the early 1930s to outdoor meetings in different parts of the town and always , when they came to a public house , they stopped and sang : ‘ Dare to be a Daniel — ’ with a special emphasis on the words : ‘ Keep outside the public house and bring your money home . ’ |
| 25 | This was a particularly important assumption in that many lenders , forced by deregulation of financial markets to fight for business , offered borrowers loans at multiples of three or even three-and-a-half times their gross salary . |
| 26 | Some otherwise generous companies offer even senior directors no more than three months ' notice ; at the other end of the scale , notice periods of three or even five years are by no means rare . |
| 27 | I think that many of us would prefer to see falling rolls as a chance to reduce class size , thus giving pupils a better chance of carrying out practical work in pairs rather than in groups of three or even four . |
| 28 | And the Home Office says conditions were improving … single cells were now only shared by two prisoners instead of three or even four . |
| 29 | Isolated ApT steps show very little cleavage while blocks of three or more contiguous ATs are cut as efficiently as GpT . |
| 30 | Historically , one of the earliest frequency-locking phenomena to be studied in laser physics was the locking of three or more longitudinal modes . |