Example sentences of "[subord] a [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It was two minutes past midnight when he walked through into the Chapters Bar , where a dozen or so late-night ( early-morning ) drinkers were still happily signing bills .
2 Although a dozen or more Japanese drift-netters had been operating in the Tasman Sea for the previous 5 years , their presence had practically gone unnoticed .
3 Broken Promise is a collection of vivid personal accounts by ‘ endangered children ’ — and it conveys the reality and universality of the problems they face better than a hundred or more straight world development textbooks .
4 I observe in passing that probably not more than a dozen or so out of the 170-odd political entities in the world conform to even the first half of the Mazzinian programme , if nations are defined in ethnic-linguistic terms .
5 In the whole of the American southwest , there are no more than a dozen or so .
6 er you would n't want to make them You would n't particularly have more than a dozen or so would you ?
7 But they are unlikely to be able to save more than a dozen or so seats .
8 Thus , while a hundred or so European species have been recorded as hosts , only a handful are used regularly .
9 After a dozen or so phone calls , we finally discovered that TSL had secured coverage on Sportschannel America , a national cable sports network which reaches approximately nine million households .
10 After a dozen or so of these , those of us used to more direct forms of speech are tempted to interpret them as self-parody .
11 So were as many as a hundred or so other females and now he lies surrounded by them , on guard and ready to do battle with any other male that tries to raid his harem .
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