Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | T. D. There were always twenty or thirty or so bucks hanging around the corner on Nichols Street , and if they saw you coming , they 'd all move . |
| 2 | It is unclear whether Microsoft intends to support PC-NFS on one or other or both client and server versions of NT . |
| 3 | When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly , the Trunchbull marched on to the platform . |
| 4 | So we a number of us went away with lists of topics that we were going to write erm two hundred and fifty or so words about . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 6 | A hundred and seventy or so girls from all over Oxfordshire gathered at Iffley Road this afternoon to learn about scrummaging … rucking and what exactly constitutes a forward pass . |
| 7 | These seven officers and ten or so ratings had done rudimentary training with gear they bought mostly in the Cairo bazaar , and they were most interested in the COPPist 's equipment , which included some new suits designed by Siebe Gorman but not tested fully by the wearers . |
| 8 | With its 5,000 regular cabaret-goers and 50 or so clubs , the London circuit allows new acts to improve more quickly , and also to earn decent money . |
| 9 | Suitable media for this job could be gravel , foam , or various plastic and ceramic or even glass items designed to have plenty of surface area and an affinity for the bacteria . |
| 10 | I wasn ‘ t much use as my back was still sore , but Sean , Josef and 15 or so pupils from the local school — all of them refugees — emptied the lorry by 09:00 . |
| 11 | In the following years other small cohorts followed , and twenty or so girls above the age of twelve attended the school in 1979 . |
| 12 | MIKE BURNS has followed his beguiling Yorkshire history with one on Surrey , equally beautifully filmed , with a fine array of early stills , some rare archive footage , some of it pre-1914 , and 20 or so interviews with players . |