Example sentences of "a [adj] or so " in BNC.
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| 1 | a six or so I knew what , that the nine was no good to me or the |
| 2 | Now about a dozen or so of those are to go ahead with funds of up to Ecu250,000 a year for three years . |
| 3 | Every day half a dozen or so old ladies leave a million pounds or more , generally widows whose major asset was a decent house in the South-east . |
| 4 | Researchers around the world have only a dozen or so AFMs , compared with hundreds of STMs . |
| 5 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 6 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 7 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 8 | For example , in a dozen or so villages during 1928 and 1929 , Pateman and a young teacher , W. P. Baker , provided short courses of the Chapter III type on rural history . |
| 9 | Nightlife is informal , with a dozen or so quiet bars and about 15 restaurants offering delicious home made pasta dishes . |
| 10 | Four yemery trees shaded the cabin and a dozen or so pines were scattered across the upper slope . |
| 11 | Beyond the pine , and a little lower on the cliff , a dozen or so bushes grew from a wide fissure . |
| 12 | This has the same view as Philip Swallow 's , but is smaller — indeed , rather too small for all the furniture it contains : a desk , bookcases , filing cabinets , a table and a dozen or so unstacked stacking chairs . |
| 13 | The main road from Lulling to its nearest neighbouring Cotswold town ran along one side of Thrush Green , and a less important lane threading its way to half a dozen or so sleepy little hamlets , skirted the other side . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll just tidy these up , ’ said her host , stuffing a dozen or so unwashed socks behind the grubby cushion . |
| 15 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 16 | It is not simply a matter of firing a dozen or so casters into the swim every few minutes ; it is a case of knowing just when to step up the feed , when to slow it down , and when to cease feeding altogether . |
| 17 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 18 | Harlan has described a guided tour as follows : ‘ Batches of students — I have seen as many as thirty in a group — are herded through a dozen or so stations . |
| 19 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 20 | By 1978 they had formed the International Crustal Research Drilling Group and a team of a dozen or so , along with graduate students and drillers , was at work in Iceland . |
| 21 | The amount involved could have funded a dozen or so investigations of the social implications of the reduced rail network , or it could have kept open one of Serpell 's threatened stations — Stratford-upon-Avon , for example — for a year . |
| 22 | I know he was a ratepayer because he repeated this fact in the subsequent inquiry , a dozen or so times , adding that he did n't pay rates to have his hat ruined , a view I could understand . |
| 23 | Erato 's main mid-price label is ‘ Emeraude ’ ( DDD ) — initially a dozen or so titles varying from Corelli and Charpentier to Grieg and Tchaikovsky , with established ‘ Erato ’ names such as Schimone , Koopman , Paillard and Guschbauer . |
| 24 | Looking at the BBC 's sample of a dozen or so voters , one realised that people still have an abiding and entirely irrational belief in government as a form of magic fairy . |
| 25 | As fine a herd of slaves as you could wish — one hundred and twenty prime males and another seventy young females , half a dozen or so children and two suckling babes . |
| 26 | It 's the main ‘ motorway ’ through the city , and there are a dozen or so stalls on the Rialto selling souvenirs — including the painted masks you 'll see on sale all over the city . |
| 27 | That was the question which a dozen or so representatives agonised over at Loyola Hall , Rainhill , one Saturday in October . |
| 28 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 29 | There are also a dozen or so whitish spots about half-pinhead size . |
| 30 | He failed to obtain a Card at Montpelier last year finishing 66th , but his outstanding amateur record has earned him a dozen or so sponsor 's invites . |