Example sentences of "[subord] not [num] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( i ) There was a contract , albeit not one of sale , between the dealer and the customer . |
| 2 | I expected a high-powered event , with dozens , if not hundreds of people present . |
| 3 | The first chip can represent hundreds of thousands , if not millions of pounds , of investment and effort . |
| 4 | Small shrimps ingest the carotene pigment with the algae and are eaten in turn by thousands if not millions of flamingos in soda salt lakes . |
| 5 | There were people , thousands if not millions of people , who did this every day . |
| 6 | First , they need a well proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |
| 7 | First , they need a well-proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |
| 8 | I am assailed with feelings of irritation mixed with amusement at the number of pilots who , despite cheerfully paying many hundreds if not thousands of pounds on their chosen hobby , carp on about having to fork out three or four quid over the odds in selected landing fees , or as in the case of correspondent K. Foster £46 for a medical combined with an ECG . |
| 9 | ‘ There were literally hundreds if not thousands of people who looked as though they were running for their lives . ’ |
| 10 | Hundreds if not thousands of people were shot and buried in the woods where these bones were found . |
| 11 | Ancient man had hundreds if not thousands of years to get used to each new metal ; the aesthetic qualities as well as the performance of individual metals in the home or on the battlefield became common knowledge . |
| 12 | If the Circle of Churches could be proved to exist , the implication would be staggering — that hundreds if not thousands of years before history would allow , ancient man had seemingly developed the ability to survey and measure the land with astounding accuracy , accuracy not matched until the dawn of the space age . |
| 13 | A large nuclear reactor will contain hundreds , if not thousands of rods filled with uranium fuel . |
| 14 | The feasts of the Madonna fell on 15 August and 8 September , and on those days hundreds if not thousands of pilgrims descended on Fontanellato from all over the province and even further afield . |
| 15 | So the mysteries of migration routes , which prompted this brief foray into the biological and geological past , is only one of a myriad miraculous facets of nature , of the greater Mind , that tells us of the great planetary drama in which life has existed , maintained within such finely balanced parameters , for hundreds of millions , if not billions of years . |