Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] or [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to £600 for alternative travel expenses ( including car hire ) and up to £400 for emergency hotel and food expenses if your vehicle is off the road for eight hours or more following a breakdown , accident , fire or theft . |
| 2 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 3 | ( Of the 36 US states which used the death penalty , only three used gas , which , it was alleged , could take 12 minutes or more to kill a condemned prisoner . ) |
| 4 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 5 | For several years the number of people out of work for 12 months or more had been steadily dropping , reaching a low in the North-East ( the North excluding Cumbria ) of 36,000 in October 1990 . |
| 6 | The number of people waiting 12 months or more had also fallen from 367 in December to 183 last month . |
| 7 | Dip sandwich , both sides , then leave for 30 seconds or so to soak up egg . |
| 8 | Making money on speculative stocks was a far more remote possibility than on British Telecom or TSB , although it might have taken them six months or longer to discover the bitter truth . |
| 9 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 10 | The number of those out of work for six months or more rose by 10,700 ( 8.8 per cent ) from 122,200 to 132,900 , again the lowest in Britain . |
| 11 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 12 | THE LAST 10 days or so have not so much shaken the world as utterly changed it . |
| 13 | The two-piece rosewood back is reinforced inside with four spruce braces , all shaved to a sharp point , and the sides have little mahogany strips every six inches or so to prevent cracks from spreading too far should the guitar be dropped — heaven forfend . |
| 14 | She presented three rows of two letters in either the left or right field and asked subjects either for a full report of all six letters or simply to recall a particular pair of letters ( partial report condition ) corresponding to a single column of the display . |
| 15 | Sirius All stays 7 nights or more receive an excursion to Mount Etna . |
| 16 | A complimentary excursion for all guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on 23 May , 12 and 19 Sept . |
| 17 | Excursion included to Cattolica di Stilo or Gerace for guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on or between 11 May–8 June . |
| 18 | Guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on or between 9 May–23 May and 19–30 Sep are entitled to 5 hours of tennis per week . |
| 19 | Guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on or between 4 Jul–22 Aug are entitled to 3 hours of tennis or squash per week . |
| 20 | A complimentary excursion to the medieval village of Canale and to Lake Tenno for all guests staying 7 nights or more arriving on or between 8–29 May and 11–25 Sep . |
| 21 | A complimentary excursion for guests staying 7 nights or more arriving in May or September . |
| 22 | A complimentary dinner in a typical Verona restaurant for all guests staying 7 nights or more arriving 4 July–22 Aug . |
| 23 | The curved planks or tubes of cork are stacked out in the sun for three months or more to dry , then boiled for an hour or so with fungicides and antiseptics to kill off any bugs and moulds , and to soften the bark by extracting tannins and minerals . |
| 24 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 25 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 26 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 27 | Third night free for stays of three nights or more arriving on a Saturday . |
| 28 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 29 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 30 | Like most things in gliding this takes practice and experience if you are going to avoid losing a thousand feet or more trying to take the picture of your turning point . |