Example sentences of "[coord] the [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | But in in in fact I think you 'll find that most people buy one or the other or even |
2 | Three major Islamic options are to be considered — the maintenance of Muslim tradition , or the pursuit of modernisation , or the messianic or indeed the modern fundamentalist path of revolution . |
3 | Since the 1990 Budget , parents with a child in a workplace nursery do not pay tax on the value of the care , but women employed by companies that either ‘ buy ’ places at private nurseries or the 60 or so firms such as British Gas , National Power , Debenhams and BMW which issue childcare vouchers ( worth an average £27 a week ) must pay tax on what is treated as a perk . |
4 | I tried to restore my word processor program and the hundred or so files , but after restoring the first disk , the program stopped , giving the error message , ‘ Unable to find path ’ . |
5 | The male defenders were rather less fortunate and the thousand or so Royalists were starved out after eleven days ; half joined Waller immediately . |
6 | It could not have done so had there not been considerable lack of confidence in these other analgesics and the 80 or so non-steroidal anti-inflammatories use to treat arthritis . |
7 | Once returned the papers are considered by an internal editorial committee , and the 800 or so that may merit publication are passed on to one of our two ‘ hanging committees ’ ( named after the committee at the Royal Academy that decides which pictures to hang in the summer exhibition ) . |
8 | The deep rumbling of the explosions dying down to a hissing of falling dust , everything grew quiet , and the twenty or so survivors collapsed against a low wall to get their breath back . |
9 | Because the early metronome and the 35 or so tempos of French Baroque works calculated from them by 18th-century French writers have already been well documented and discussed in recent studies , particularly in respect to dance tempos , they will not be discussed further here . |
10 | The Dutch government has now asked the Arts Council to allocate funds and the 300 or so galleries are now grouped into two categories . |
11 | But the dozen or so Erk sympathisers are no match for the rest of the 500 deputies — all members of the People 's Democratic Party , the former communists who regrouped under a new name after the failed Moscow coup . |