Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In more recent times the potential of bilingual education not only for a social elite as was traditionally the case but also for the disadvantaged and/or those already possessing a degree of bilingualism from pre-school experience has been much discussed and researched . |
| 2 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 3 | The theatre was estimated to measure about 10 feet in height , 15 in breadth , and 20 in length ( can these measurements be correct — classes sometimes numbered 70 or more students ? ) . |
| 4 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 5 | In most areas the continental crust consists of a thirty-kilometre thick slab of such rocks , but under high mountain ranges it is fifty or more kilometres thick . |
| 6 | They were very small groups ( some fifty or more ‘ subjects ’ ) from ‘ well-off ’ , presumably campus , families . |
| 7 | Due to his reputation for honesty , he was fast becoming the top agent in Yorkshire , sole booker of at least sixty clubs , and had fifty or more acts signed to him . |
| 8 | Already fifty or more spectators , mostly old men and young lads , stood on the touchline stamping their feet to keep warm . |
| 9 | On the rivers Thames and Severn fifty or more men were sometimes needed to pull one boat against the strong flow . |
| 10 | Quinton and Rutter ( 1983 ) quote a figure of fifty or more parent figures during the first five years in a residential nursery as being common . |
| 11 | For manufacturing companies employing fifty or fewer people the Category B winner and recipient of the Local Enterprise Development Unit Award was Typerite Limited . |
| 12 | Newly inserted s.20A(a) of the SEA 1934 gives a private right of action to any person who trades contemporaneously with any person in securities of the same class where that person has violated any provision of the Securities Exchange Act 1934 or any regulations made thereunder . |
| 13 | Video Cassettes 6% ( six per cent ) of the Publisher 's net receipts on 1 to 2,000 copies , 8% ( eight per cent ) on 2,001 to 4,000 copies , and 10% ( ten per cent ) on 4,001 or more copies of the Work sold irrespective of standard or format . |
| 14 | On sales of the Video : % ( per cent ) of the Publisher 's net receipts on 1 to 2,000 copies , % ( per cent ) on 2,001 to 4,000 copies , and % ( per cent ) on 4,001 or more copies of the Work sold irrespective of standard or format |
| 15 | 4% ( four per cent ) of the Publisher 's net receipts on 1 to 2,000 copies , 5% ( five per cent ) on 2,001 to 4,000 copies , and 6% ( six per cent ) on 4,001 or more copies of the Work sold irrespective of standard or format . |
| 16 | Sir John Donaldson defended himself in a public speech saying that the court had not known that the assets had been earmarked for a political or any other purpose . |
| 17 | I say ‘ called ’ because English Law does not recognise any special right of public meeting either for a political or any other purpose . |
| 18 | Pensions then were equivalent to two-thirds or more of average incomes of working-class adults . |
| 19 | Scrofula attacking the glands , or bones , or other parts of the body , is a disease of two-thirds or more of the potters … |
| 20 | Their winter homes were log cabins , either free-standing or half sunk in the earth and covered with turf . |
| 21 | One polytechnic had expressed its fears to the Council that not all boards would operate the new arrangements , and had received an assurance from the Chief Officer that ‘ corrective action would be taken as soon as possible where any Board was seen not acting in the spirit of the new arrangements ’ . |
| 22 | She was not contrite or sorry or any of the things she should have been . |
| 23 | At both seasons flocks totalling 500 or more are commonplace , and the highest counts were of totals of 1,210 on 12 October 1969 , and 1,430 out of 2,000 in the whole Pagham Harbour to Portsmouth Harbour complex on 19 October 1974 ; and , in spring , 950 on 15 April 1972 , and 1,370 on 29 March 1975 . |
| 24 | However , throughout the period November to February flocks of 500 or more are regularly present , and the average of all counts in this period between 1964 and 1976 was over seven hundred . |
| 25 | Some strains of mice with hamster PrP transgenes , when inoculated with hamster prions show incubation periods as short as 75 days rather than the 500 or more days in non-transgeneic controls . |
| 26 | There are financial handicaps to being female which keep most women either dependent on men or disadvantaged or both . |
| 27 | And the forceplate can monitor a horse 's recovery , showing that it is back to normal or that recovery has stopped . |
| 28 | The old thick rad did not give enough clearance for a normal or any other type of fan . |
| 29 | The night patrol was meant to come and turn the lights off at a quarter to ten , but sometimes they would n't turn up until eleven or half eleven . |
| 30 | It will either show he 's overdrawn or that money has been credited . |