Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] or [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 2 | The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney . |
| 3 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 4 | Behind a grid , there is strong turbulent energy production for the first ten or so grid mesh-lengths along the tunnel ; the turbulence then becomes substantially isotropic and decays with distance down the tunnel . |
| 5 | Moreover , he had added to his possessions a piece of luggage of inestimable value for now - and for the next 30 or so years : his Olivetti 22 portable typewriter , which he had bought in London for £40 , no small investment for those days . |
| 6 | Certainly nothing happened in my personal experience in the last six or so months to make me change my mind about Labour unelectability . |
| 7 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 8 | Having decided that he was very unlikely to shave for next sixteen or so days he wanted his beard to be at the past-scratch stage when he arrived . |
| 9 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 10 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 11 | We live in a free market economy which has prospered considerably over the last ten or so years . |
| 12 | The first tentacle pore on the arm has no spine associated , the next five or so pores have one and subsequent ones have two . |
| 13 | The next fifteen or so miles were easier , not so much because it was daylight but because , once past that towering headland , they were rowing west by north and the wind and tide were now behind them . |
| 14 | Order can be overestimated ; the next twenty or so years saw repeated squabbles among the Normans , in which , after William 's death in 1087 , Sussex played a vital part . |
| 15 | For the history of the Soviet people during the last twenty or so years machine-readable data files are crucial and Moissenko argues contemporary historians need to come to grips with them now . |
| 16 | Instead we 've spent the last 60 or so years trying to live up the likes of Jean Harlow , Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly . |
| 17 | In The Reversing Earth Warlow tried to prove that , during the last 13,000 or so years , the Earth has flipped over on its axis about five times . |
| 18 | THE UNITED STATES ' navy is under heavy fire for its plan to dispose of 100 or more of its old nuclear submarines off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts over the next 20 or so years . |
| 19 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 20 | Routers have really revolutionised the trade and home woodworking sectors of the power tool market over the last 20 or so years . |