Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [coord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my 20 or so years visiting the city I do n't believe I ever went home empty-handed . |
| 2 | Many of its 100 or so Ph.D graduates hold senior posts in academia and industry , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 3 | At a reunion of her year at the university last week , not one of her dozen or so classmates could recall the tall slim Yorkshire girl with light brown hair . |
| 4 | Its almost immediate closure was announced and then retracted last autumn , and its 600 or so employees are now waiting to hear how long the reprieve will last . |
| 5 | The Good Food Guide has also been dropping Stowell Street like a hot skillet , only the Dragon House among its dozen or so restaurants surviving into the 1992 edition . |
| 6 | The aforementioned Bath and Bradford on Avon Antique Dealers ' Association provides a helpful leaflet and map of its 40 or so members . |
| 7 | In addition to its hundred or so miles of beaches , the Algarve boasted all manner of interesting places , and it was a crime that she and Thomas were unable to visit them . |
| 8 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |
| 9 | In part this dramatic result reflected a widespread but not necessarily dependable willingness to give the Republic a chance , in part the temporary demoralization and organizational unpreparedness of the anti- and non-republican right , whose fifty or so deputies seriously under-represented its true strength and potential . |
| 10 | That 's it forty and then sine . |
| 11 | How could Ezpeleta , a soldier-administrator well on in his seventies and now Captain General in Barcelona , be expected to appeal to the unemployed dockers , artisans , and cotton operatives , called by the French commander l'immense canaille de Barcelone , against an overwhelmingly superior French garrison ? |
| 12 | With pride in his 42 or so inches , the midget was soon spooning his share of Dublin 's foaming romance . |
| 13 | I doubt he ever harmed a soul in his twenty or so years . |
| 14 | The interviewer knows a secret and naturally imparts it to his million or so readers in the next issue . |
| 15 | But that is what six or so months ago it was expected to do . |
| 16 | Well , having agreed with that , Freud then , faces a problem , because the problem he faces is , that in the previous book of his , that we looked at er , that he had published erm , what fourteen or so years earlier , Totem and Taboo where he had talked about the origin of religion . |
| 17 | ‘ Our display was better than the result and the lads did themselves proud but sometimes Lady Luck dictates how things go . |