Example sentences of "[subord] a [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills . |
| 2 | Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed . |
| 3 | And nothing appeals to an experienced hunter more than a wounded or somehow disabled prey . |
| 4 | Of granite , which he has used in dressings around the doors and windows , he wrote : ‘ Especial care is required to make the mouldings of a broad , bold and massive , rather than a small or delicately undercut character , and to avoid as far as possible anything like minuteness and pettiness in the finish . ’ |
| 5 | Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks . |
| 6 | I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms . |
| 7 | In the whole of the American southwest , there are no more than a dozen or so . |
| 8 | er you would n't want to make them You would n't particularly have more than a dozen or so would you ? |
| 9 | But they are unlikely to be able to save more than a dozen or so seats . |
| 10 | Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly . |
| 11 | After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households . |
| 12 | After a dozen or so of these , those of us used to more direct forms of speech are tempted to interpret them as self-parody . |
| 13 | So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem . |
| 14 | Whereas an adult can fairly ‘ comfortably ’ lose a pint of blood , a child losing the same amount may be drained of as much as a third or even half of her total supply . |