Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give or take a hundred thousand in each case . |
| 2 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 3 | What with all those houses , plus the school , he must have been worth close to a million pounds , give or take the odd thousand . |
| 4 | Shouting at the two children talking when they should n't during assembly rather than praising the other two hundred for sitting quietly is typical of a pre-occupation with failure . |
| 5 | * The aim of the review that constitutes the next two major sections of this chapter is largely methodological . |
| 6 | In 1987 the Community agreed to a package of measures which will create greater fare competition , will allow the airlines to increase market shares at each other 's expense ( rather than maintaining a rigid fifty/fifty split ) and will allow other airlines ( both from the bilateral partners and from other states ) to ply for trade on particular routes . |
| 7 | Our normal reality is like each of us living in a tiny , windowless cell in a house that contains a hundred thousand rooms and covers a thousand acres of land . |
| 8 | How can this happen on a planet that has an estimated 1400 million cubic kilometres of water ? |
| 9 | Functionally the nerve cells may be sensory ( afferent ) neurons , conveying impulses inwards from the sense organs ( p. 123 ff. ) , motor or efferent neurons , conveying them outwards to the effector organs , and association neurons ( interneurons ) that link the other two types . |
| 10 | What makes the Khmer Rouge so strong is its vision for Cambodia , which is pure , radically nationalistic and free of the corruption , petty power struggles and personal jealousies that bedevil the other two resistance factions and the Hun Sen government in Phnom Penh . |
| 11 | His swearing in by Mr Husak will bring together the two opposite poles of Czechoslovak politics — the unyielding dissident and the man most closely connected with the hard-line Communist regime that followed the Soviet-led 1968 invasion . |
| 12 | That 's the eight-to 64-processor machine that delivers a theoretical 6 GFLOPS peak with a full complement of processors . |
| 13 | Not all positions were as healthy as others , for 4,700 feet ( 1,400m ) up Tata-Mailau mountain a Section post was established that needed a fresh 16 men every week , the cold — Tata-Mailau is 9,000 feet ( nearly 3,000 metres ) high — bringing on the malaria latent in almost every man of the Companies . |
| 14 | There was again strict security at the court building in Liverpool town centre but there was no repeat of the noisy scenes that accompanied the first two remands. — PA |
| 15 | A heavy fog had descended upon us , and we realized that finding the other two divers had to be the immediate priority . |
| 16 | Ten minutes of stimulation at 100 volts in a system that operates on a millisecond timescale and deals in ion currents that generate a few thousandths of a volt is scarcely going to simulate what happens normally in the brain . |
| 17 | But the Sperrbrecher , unidentified before the raid although moored a few hundred yards from the east jetty ( see diagram p. 41 ) was a strong ship . |
| 18 | He went over to the bed , lifted up the skirts and the separate bodice and draped them over his arm , pushing Meredith in front of the ornate Venetian gilt mirror complete with cherubs and vine leaves that occupied a good twenty feet of wall space . |
| 19 | The same trio of firms that occupied the top three overall places in 1989 took the honours again this time ( see table 1 ) . |
| 20 | Is there a compromise which says that rather than increasing the nine thousand seven hundred as suggested a moment ago from the county councils own point of view that nine thousand seven hundred should be decreased on a new settlement . |
| 21 | Turning to the specific example of a continuous square wave of amplitude a and period T , it can be represented in terms of by The validity of this particular harmonic representation is demonstrated in figure 11.1 where it is shown that summing the first three terms of expression ( 11.2 ) produces a waveform not far removed from square . |
| 22 | Even if computing power increases by a factor of 10–10 every 40 years , adequate calculation for systems of 10 5 electrons that require a 10 50 increase in computing power would become feasible only in 200 years . |
| 23 | It is the logic that transgresses the unitary 1 of ‘ Dieu , la loi , la définition ’ ( 90 ) ; it is the logic of ambivalence and of the ‘ polyphonic ’ novel , for fiction , as she defines it , is ‘ cette réunion non-synthétique entre ‘ est ’ et ‘ n'est pas ’ ' ( 1974:353 ) . |
| 24 | However , using the information about the clone order from hybridisation data it will be much easier to infer a restriction map of a genome ( and verify a hybridisation map in parallel ) from these results than to construct the complete two single-digest plus one double-digest map from individual restriction maps of each clone . |
| 25 | To kick off the celebration , Guinness Anchor Berhad has produced a specially-recreated commemorative classic bottle that carries the original 1965 Foreign Extra Stout label . |
| 26 | The finish was an apology for an attempt at goal , though the worry remained that missing the previous five games had left Gough seriously disadvantaged . |
| 27 | So we must look around for phenomena that occur every 150 million years or so . |
| 28 | But this pre-history he rejects serves as a symbolic equivalent of the narrative of multiple usurpations and misappropriations of territory that occupies the following six hundred pages . |
| 29 | Cheshire , champions in 1990 and ‘ 91 , had halved the morning foursomes and shared the first four singles when Caldy 's Bailey claimed a 4 and 3 win over Neil Graham of Newcastle United . |
| 30 | Roll over and repeat the last 2 exercises on the other side : Hip and Thigh Extender x 25 ; Front Thigh Stretch x 5 |