Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Move the cursor to a blank line or on to the first character of the text to follow the blank lines |
| 2 | Erm , right , what I want to do this week , is to go on to the next er , work of Freud 's , that follows after erm , group psychology , or rather to the next two , because I 'm gon na back these two books together for , hi there , , erm gon na back these two books together , because as we 'll see , they , they really deal with the same subject . |
| 3 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 4 | ‘ My grandfather was … always an active man , right t'more or less about the last year that he died . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 6 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 7 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 8 | The current 300,000 youth training places in the United Kingdom compare with the lamentable 7,000 or so under the last Labour Government . |
| 9 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 10 | He parked ten yards or so after the last house , outside a wire-mesh fence in front of a late 1950s prefabricated school . |
| 11 | Does he remember a shadowed evening in his hotel room a day or so after the third Joe Frazier fight , moving to the window , his body still on fire from the assault ? |
| 12 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 13 | They had not moved , either mentally or physically in the last two years . |
| 14 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 15 | But when thrifts went bust in their hundreds in 1989 , necessitating a federal rescue that could cost the taxpayer $500 billion or more over the next 30 years , the goalposts were abruptly moved for junk borrowers , too . |
| 16 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 17 | He will head a start-up team of seven staff which is expected to grow to a dozen or more over the next six to nine months . |
| 18 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 19 | The US money supply was allowed to grow at 10 per cent per year or more for the next four years , having been virtually unchanged in 1969 . |
| 20 | Government support of this kind in fact increased substantially during the generation or more before the First World War , when the foreign ministry trebled its spending on cultural relations in general . |
| 21 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 22 | Consequently scientists did not move around as they do today , or even in the 19th century , and local learned societies and journals flourished . |
| 23 | Billy Arjan Singh saw the family once or twice during the next week and then Harriet and her cubs melted away into the jungle . |
| 24 | Once or twice during the next few days Bathsheba saw Troy working in her hayfields . |
| 25 | I 've only heard it once or twice in the last few |
| 26 | Thank you very much , please do stay with us either for the whole afternoon , or certainly for the next |
| 27 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 28 | ( It is medically thought that only after the 28th week of pregnancy that the foetus has a separate existence from that of its mother ) . |
| 29 | The story goes that ealy in the last century the then owner , a reverend David Edwards made a good marriage to a rich but stout lady , Miss Purnell . |
| 30 | But there are copious indications that already in the eleventh century , and perhaps long before , money played a part at least as important as labour . |