Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 2 | It is used for entry into a holding pattern from sector 2 and also in approach patterns . |
| 3 | If you need a full featured word processor — and while you might like the idea of drawing and charting do you really need them within your word processor — and have the hardware to support it , I think it is a strong competitor to Word for Windows 2 and currently in advance of any others . |
| 4 | Any of the following tests would be regarded as suitable proof : Passes in the JMB Test in English ( Overseas ) at grade 3 or better up to June 1989 , the JMB Test in English for Speakers of Other Languages from March 1990 ; the AEB Test in English for Educational Purposes at grade III or better in listening , reading and writing ; the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English at grade C or better ; the Oxford-Arels Examination ( Higher level ) at Credit or Distinction level ; the IELTS ( British Council/University of Cambridge ) , with an average score of 6 or better and for each component a score of 5 or better ; TOEFL with a score of 550 or better ; the London GCE O level Syllabus B in English Language at grade C or better or in an approved SCE or GCE syllabus in English are acceptable for this purpose . |
| 5 | The fourth matter upon which the appellants rely , and this is a matter of considerable importance , is that they claim to have been misled by the solicitor who was acting for them during the course of 1991 and particularly in respect of these committal proceedings . |
| 6 | six to eight and again of course it 's hard to say but er , when would the brochure , the sales brochure for that development be printed and available |
| 7 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 8 | From the dozen or so per week when the band is in the studio , there will be up to 100 per week as they go on the road . |
| 9 | All those working less than full-time hours ( generally 35 or more per week ) may find themselves barred from pension , profit-sharing and preferential company loan schemes . |
| 10 | The multiplier for manual staff might be unity but it increases with staff level and becomes three or more for management . |
| 11 | But he would have preferred Lord Halifax to Churchill as prime minister in 1940 and even in retrospect believed that the country would have fought the war better under Halifax and that the admirals and the generals would have had a less neurotic time . |
| 12 | We will say more about user involvement in Section 2.8 and further in Section 6.4 . |
| 13 | Jim was due to leave another school in the area at Christmas 1984 and shortly before summer 1984 a panel hearing was requested due to Jim 's non-attendance at school and the theft of a pushbike . |
| 14 | The 900 group , originally the domain of Kawasaki with the Z900 and then the GPZ900R , introduced in 1984 and still in production , seems set to become the premier sports class . |
| 15 | It 'd be nice to have 5 or so in hand with Scum only 13 points ahead , we win em all and take the league from under their noses . |
| 16 | The Representation of the People Act 1969 extended the franchise to persons aged 18 or more on polling day . |
| 17 | hence such a cubic polynomial has a root in Q. The theorem is not of immediate use in checking polynomials of degree 4 or more for irreducibility . |
| 18 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 19 | Today , when reclamation is carried out with the use of expensive mechanical equipment , it is not profitable to start until a strip , 200 m or more in width , is ready . |
| 20 | The most famous ( or notorious ) is the giant squid at 15 m or more in length , but some of the extinct ammonites and nautiloids were of similar dimension , and were the largest shelled animals ever to have lived . |
| 21 | At Chalton , the largest structures measured 9 m or more in length , and are characterised by opposed doorways in the centre of the long sides , flanked by pairs of postholes ( Addyman , Leigh and Hughes 1972 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Fast moving ’ glaciers slid forwards in the valleys at 50 m or so per year . |
| 23 | I am sixteen and therefore in year eleven at high school . |
| 24 | The son of the Harijan village President , Sarat was then 18 and still at school , alternating between thoughts of a government job and staying in the village to work on his father 's land . |
| 25 | So one fifteenth of three hundred and sixty is going to be three hundred and sixty and then in front of that you 'll want one fifteenth of and this times thing is quite handy when we 're multiplying fractions together we 'll just get three sixty over fifteen . |
| 26 | A long-standing Mitterrand ally , he worked as Secretary-General in the President 's office from 1981 and then as Minister for Social Affairs and National Solidarity in 1982-84 . |
| 27 | The mill was powered originally by water , then converted to steam in 1811 and finally to electricity in 1914 . |
| 28 | A fourth approach , adopted by English law until 1957 and still in force in many American jurisdictions , is some form of felony-murder rule : anyone who kills during the course of a felony ( or , more restrictively , a serious crime of violence ) or whilst resisting arrest should be convicted of murder . |
| 29 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 30 | The Pixel Semiconductor Inc unit of Cirrus Logic Inc has introduced the CL-PX0072 Video Window Generator I , a Microsoft Corp Video for Windows-compatible chip that features HiQ8 proprietary colour enhancement technology to provide high-quality picture resolutions ; samples from Cirrus Logic cost $32 in quantities of 10,000 or more with volume planned for the current quarter . |