Example sentences of "among the [adj] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employees and their families were among the 100 or so people who joined a convoy of 25 four-wheel drive vehicles in order to hit the heights . |
| 2 | The Temple Mount Faithful were prevented from entering the site , but there was nevertheless unrest among the 3,000 or so Arabs congregated there . |
| 3 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 4 | Stornoway is a very busy Branch and with its two Mobiles the staff of 34 cater for our customers among the 25,000 or so Lewis and Harris residents . |
| 5 | This drawing is among the 700 or so exhibits , many never seen before in the West , in the exhibition ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ , at the Schirn Kunsthalle until 10 May . |
| 6 | There is a suspicion that here and there among the 20 or so items requested the editor 's leg has been mildly pulled . |
| 7 | Among the 20 or so protestors were seven foreigners , including the former Soviet Environment Minister , Nikolai Vorontsov . |
| 8 | Among the dozen or so ‘ King 's yeomen ’ and ‘ King 's serjeants ’ appointed to Forest wardenships were Robert of Stopham , one of the king 's huntsmen , who became warden of the forests of Clarendon and Groveley 1249–59 , and Master Walter of Durham , ‘ the King 's serjeant and painter ’ , appointed in 1271 to keep the forest of Galtres , along with John of York , another royal serjeant . |
| 9 | Among the 50 or so booksellers and publishers attending a seminar on the new Single Market rules organised by the Börsenverein in Frankfurt in December the mood was described as ‘ agitated and despairing ’ . |
| 10 | Among the 50 or so battlefields to choose from are : Wellington 's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo , the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign , the cowboys and Indians of America 's Wild West , and the Battle of the Somme . |
| 11 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |