Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ufton went in for England 's third try in 49 minutes and then flanker Robert Leach touched down from a five-metre scrummage , Stimpson converting .
2 But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media .
3 Just 30 miles or so south west of Bristol , Sedgemoor stretches from the Mendip Hills in the north to the Quantock Hills in the south .
4 For the past 10 years or so ME have made all their fleece garments from material mainly sourced form the Far East .
5 I realised there was no going back — that pregnancy meant 18 years and then college … ’
6 Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose .
7 I was split between boxing and football when I was 16 and , at one stage , I wanted to turn professional boxer and thought that , as I was on Norwich 's books and I could n't get a pro boxer 's licence till I was 17 , anyway , I 'd play football for twelve months and then steam into boxing [ he was a double ABA junior finalist ] .
8 Mostly they have been ambivalent , admitting on the one hand that both creativity and psychosis probably share similar underlying psychic mechanisms — unconscious motivation , involvement of ‘ primary process ’ thinking ( fantasy ) , ideational styles and so on ; yet , on the other hand , unwilling to bring the two states together in any causal sense .
9 Giardia lamblia was identified in the mucosa in one patient but only Cryptosporidium was seen in the other patients .
10 Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then .
11 Now we 're looking for tomorrow for about a twenty minute or so role play .
12 Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long .
13 The four rings and then cut-out sounded like a Fax line connection .
14 About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored .
15 Many are driving more than 500 miles for tomorrow night 's event .
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