Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [num] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is n't it possible that you mistook the two or possibly three voices you heard , for in fact Mr and Mrs and . |
| 2 | Ace opened the first cabinet , scanned the hundred or so labels quickly , selected the most recent crystal and fed it into a reader . |
| 3 | Around her squealed and shouted the sixty or so pupils of Thrush Green Church of England Primary School . |
| 4 | As I drove the fifty or so miles back home I thought that I would rewrite the story , the history rather , of the Butcher . |
| 5 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 6 | Instead of one large corporate body , like the BBC , ITV comprised a dozen or so smaller production companies , all making , and prerecording , programmes for sale to each other and overseas . |
| 7 | It showed a dozen or so young men casually grouped around a bench on a sunlit lawn , wearing knife-creased flannels and striped blazers : the very antithesis of student life in the sixties . |
| 8 | I practically fell through the door to the balcony , shut it after me , turned left , scrambled the twenty or so feet to the door in the south-west corner and plunged through , closing this too . |
| 9 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |
| 10 | Toby had a cupboard there in which he threw his golf clubs , normally with a high degree of disgust , and where he kept a dozen or so bottles of wine . |
| 11 | He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques . |
| 12 | I think he bowled a hundred or so deliveries for me before I got the images right . |
| 13 | Martin said he and his helpers shifted the 400 or so bales about six times over the weekend . |