Example sentences of "of [num] [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most modern machines have maximum launching speeds of 70 knots or so , making it relatively difficult and unusual for the launch to overspeed . |
| 2 | It astonished and excited everyone , and when he succeeded in making one of eight magnifications and then even 20 ( grinding his own lenses ! ) he made celestial observations that shook the world of astronomy as well as the most learned of the Peripatetics . |
| 3 | Every professional knows that if he holes a few of those vital putts of eight feet or more , it can transform his whole round and maybe make him into a winner . |
| 4 | ’ Tens ’ are real possibilities today from many areas as are suggested target fish of eight pounds or above . |
| 5 | Once a chick bred in captivity can fly — at the age of eight weeks or so — it can be taken from its parents and released to hunt for itself for a month . |
| 6 | The 17th is a par-5 of 500 yards or more , but Tom reduced it to a drive and a sand-iron ! |
| 7 | Frederick had true imperial blood in his veins as the son of the Emperor Henry VI and the grandson of Barbarossa and he could not allow the narrow strip of fifty miles or so of corridor land to impede his ambitions . |
| 8 | The London region defined this as a minimum of fifty percent or more . |
| 9 | ‘ I know some people are saying we will hit somebody for five or six goals sooner or later , but I 'd rather we had a nice , successful run of 1-0 wins than just a one-off . ’ |
| 10 | TOA I reveals an apparent molecular mass of 43 kDa as previously described ( 24 ) . |
| 11 | Old age can cover a period often of 30–35 years or more : those just entering their retirement will be a generation younger than some of the oldest citizens . |
| 12 | ( iv ) If cells are required for examination at LM level only , leave the slide to dry for a minimum of 30 min and even overnight . |
| 13 | The first crop , taken out at intervals of 30 years or more , was that of standard trees for timber production . |
| 14 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 15 | Delivery can be adjusted by turning the nozzle head , fitted on a screw thread , to give a fine jet with a range of 2 metres or more or a fine mist comparable with aerosol sprays . |
| 16 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 17 | , When flying under VFR in the open FIR at or below 3,000 feet amsl with an IAS of 140 knots or less , you remain legal in the UK provided you are clear of cloud , in sight of the surface and the visibility is at least three kilometres — but there is one exception to this : if you are carrying passengers . |
| 18 | The South Osetians , we were told , can live to the ripe old age of 140 years or so , due to lack of stress in their lives … a far cry from London living . |
| 19 | Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred . |
| 20 | The adult horse has a maximum of 44 teeth but often has less . |
| 21 | Hugh and Joyce Gardiner have been with Timex for a total of 44 years and never believed that their fight could have reached such a pitch . |
| 22 | ‘ Next thing we were playing support on a Mary Black tour and from doing folk club gigs for maybe 100 customers I suddenly found myself doing 20 nights in a row in front of 2,000 people or more . ’ |
| 23 | Continental basins generally seem to be long-lived features with a subsidence history often extending over a period of 100 Ma or more . |
| 24 | found that a left field superiority in reaction time emerged only with an inter.stimulus interval of 100 msec. or longer . |
| 25 | Lithological units of 100 feet or less in the Permian of western Canada , have been shown to persist over areas up to 180 000 square miles . |
| 26 | An energy of 10 15 GeV is way beyond the scope of any laboratory equipment ; the present generation of particle accelerators can produce center-of-mass energies of about 10 GeV , and the next generation will produce energies of 100 GeV or so . |
| 27 | Commercials are shown in ‘ breaks ’ of about two minutes which occur at roughly 20-minute intervals during programmes : they are not bunched into blocks of 10 minutes or more , as occurs in some continental countries . |
| 28 | The activities Kim was told to engage in were pre-selected by her mother from a range of things that Kim could do over a period of 10 minutes or so . |
| 29 | Until now , all sub-nuclear experiments to test such theories were carried out in huge accelerators with diameters of 10 kilometres or more . |
| 30 | It almost goes without saying that the camera lifter does not have to soar to great heights , and it will perforce have to fly in a steady breeze of 10 knots or more . |