Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hundred or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their aim was to visit every one of the eight hundred or so families in the parish every year . |
| 2 | the eight hundred or so staff have all been retained and I 'm sure it will help us to continue our penetration into the leisure and retail sectors . ’ |
| 3 | The only mandate that most electors consider they have given to newly-elected Members of Parliament is to support the party and its leader ; certainly , the Prime Minister expects , and usually gets , the support of the mass of the parliamentary majority party and the entire hundred or so members of the Government that is formed . |
| 4 | These are people who are so obsessed with the first decade of this new century that they 're inclined to forget for a moment the nineteen hundred or so years that went before it . |
| 5 | Of the six hundred or so communicants , Baxter said he had good hopes for the sincerity of the faith of all but twelve of them . |
| 6 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 7 | The three hundred or so grammar schools which existed in the late Middle Ages were mostly local and small . |
| 8 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 9 | Of the one hundred or so mosaics under examination only twenty are figured . |
| 10 | Their ministers ( if such a term can be used of the great officials such as the treasurers and hetmans of Poland and Lithuania ) were irremovable ; and the principle of the liberum veto meant that any of the two hundred or so members of the Diet ( Seym ) could nullify the work of an entire session by recording a single dissenting vote . |
| 11 | Er , sometimes it 's for tax reasons , sometimes it 's for er , for , for , for erm , er , reasons such as last year when er , we wrote down our , our stake by some seventy one million erm , it was because at that point the financing for B Sky B was not yet er , at all clear because the shareholders had been unable to agree at that point erm , that they would guarantee the two hundred or so million that er , needed to go in before the er , project became successful and so there was a genuine doubt on the financing . |
| 12 | Relations with the four hundred or so different acts that had passed through the company had been , for the most part , harmonious . |
| 13 | In the first place it must be asked why , if this growing equality between spouses has been achieved over the past hundred or so years , has the militant feminist movement grown throughout the world during the 1960s and 1970s ? |
| 14 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |