Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is priced at $95 in quantities of a thousand or more . |
| 2 | Almost half of the county 's 172 parishes had a school of some kind by 1807 , including almost all of those with a population of a thousand or more . |
| 3 | Small firms suddenly find their viability under threat by the arrival of a regional or even nationwide grouping with an enviably large budget for self-promotion . |
| 4 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 5 | I thought that was all about people feeling they 'd had their day in Parliament because there was a Tory majority of a hundred or more . |
| 6 | erm you know the each , I mean , basically we are , we are a world of a hundred or so independent sovereign states and each sovereign state can do what it wishes within its territory with the exception of Iraq of course |
| 7 | But if the gazelle grazes in a herd of a hundred or so , its chances of survival are dramatically better . |
| 8 | You 're going to stand up in front of a hundred or so of your closest friends and tell them your deepest , most private thoughts . ’ |
| 9 | Who they were , and whether the party 's appeal should be confined to the quarter of a million or so who might be described as ‘ proletariat ’ was something that had yet to be defined . |
| 10 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 11 | A further phase of New Town designation ensued , with designations for substantially increased target population figures to a quarter of a million or more . |
| 12 | of river water in the United Kingdom is judged to be of a good or very high standard is something of which I am enormously proud . |
| 13 | Moreover , we do not wish to give the impression that the cello and bass always work in double harness : on the contrary , they can be used independently to a quite large extent , though discretion and careful thought are very necessary in this matter , since the basses when used alone tend to sound rather dry , and if their part lies low and is far removed in pitch from the rest of the harmony it is too indeterminate in pitch to give satisfactory support unless it consists of a sustained or better ( since the bow is short ) a reiterated pedal note . |
| 14 | There is perhaps no phase in the moral history of mankind of a deeper or more painful interest than this ascetic epidemic . |
| 15 | Where the coast has deep water offshore a fall in base level means the formation of a vertical or very steep cliff . |
| 16 | Any hit scored against the caster by an ordinary weapon is deflected on the D6 roll of a 3 or more . |
| 17 | If hit by a magic weapon , the Crystal Cloak is immediately dispelled but no damage is suffered from that hit and the magic weapon which inflicted the hit will be destroyed on the D6 roll of a 3 or more . |
| 18 | Some choice theorists attempt a reconciliation with this legal doctrine by purporting to show that consideration provides a test of the deliberateness of a choice rather than an imposition of a paternalistic or economically motivated control over the scope of enforceable voluntary obligations . |
| 19 | Tail lowered fully and possibly even tucked between the hind legs This is the signal of a defeated or totally submissive cat that wishes to stress its lowly social status . |
| 20 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 21 | By 1978 they had formed the International Crustal Research Drilling Group and a team of a dozen or so , along with graduate students and drillers , was at work in Iceland . |
| 22 | Looking at the BBC 's sample of a dozen or so voters , one realised that people still have an abiding and entirely irrational belief in government as a form of magic fairy . |
| 23 | First up , they were stopped at the US border for the customary van search and their local driver was found to be in possession of a dozen or so ready-rolled ‘ recreational ’ cigarettes . |
| 24 | This is usually done by a guillotine that cuts back a bundle of a dozen or so plants at a time , and it is not unusual to find the cut ends chopped and bruised rather roughly . |
| 25 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 26 | So a female quail does not begin to incubate her clutch of a dozen or so eggs until it is complete , and that may not be for a fortnight after the first was laid . |
| 27 | The ecology wall charts were to be the most recent in a series of a dozen or so published by the Natural History Museum with sponsorship from BP and featured in their educational catalogue . |
| 28 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 29 | The higher shelves held plastic containers of the sort a do-it-yourself handiman would keep screws and nails in so the effect was of a dozen or so pigeonholes . |
| 30 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |