Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law does not , however , regard such societies ( unless formally incorporated ) as having any corporate personality ; it sees only individuals , owning property , it may be , in common , with rights and duties towards each other flowing from the contract , or rather series of contracts , to be found in the society 's rules ; for on every change in the membership a new contract must be implied . |
| 2 | The horse trading , or rather fish trading , that takes place at the Council meetings and other times — the talks with EFTA and the quota swaps — are all very well and sometimes seem to work to our advantage . |
| 3 | In the three long observations , models with only a power-law component give values of with a probability at or below 10% in two out of three cases . |
| 4 | Other useful devices include printers to provide printed text or perhaps graphics as well , voice input , joystick controls , as well as graphics tablets , touch keyboards and light pens enabling flexible touch input and ‘ freehand ’ drawing input . |
| 5 | Or perhaps people just like red icing . |
| 6 | ( b ) It is usually drawn up on an annual basis by comparing the previous year 's expenditure and adding increments , or perhaps decrements. ( c ) There is a natural tendency , when dealing with inputs on an incremental basis , to favour existing programmes . |
| 7 | A minute representation of the world 's 30,000 or so species of fish is to be seen in the aquarium . |
| 8 | At the ‘ community ’ level , most of the 300 or so species populations studied in the large plot on Barro Colorado Island discussed above show positively correlated survival with distance from reproductive adults up to 15 m . |
| 9 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 10 | After saving up my hard-earned wages for the past four and a half years I managed to scrape the 1750 or so quid together and bought myself the most stunning quilted maple P.R.S. Custom you ever saw . |
| 11 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 12 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 13 | the eight hundred or so staff have all been retained and I 'm sure it will help us to continue our penetration into the leisure and retail sectors . ’ |
| 14 | Then it earned a reprieve , this time it wo n't — a sobering thought for the sixty or so staff who are losing their jobs . |
| 15 | Most of Iraq 's 800 or so aircraft have spent the war on or under the ground in well-protected shelters and hiding places . |
| 16 | Although they built a mere 30 or so aircraft between 1929 and the end of 1933 when they formally went out of business , their racing craft took most of the major air races in that time and broke the world speed record for landplanes on one occasion — no mean achievement for a team that worked from hand-to-mouth most of the time and had little formal education . |
| 17 | Researchers have discovered that significant changes in the same songs have been copied by humpbacks on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean within 6 days , far faster than a whale could swim the 5000 or so km ( 3250 miles ) . |
| 18 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 19 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 20 | ENGLAND 'S second warm-up match for the Nehru Trophy may not have been the biggest event here yesterday ( of the 100 or so people who turned up , about a dozen were neither sponsors nor members of the Delhi constabulary ) , but it did , by happy chance , provide near-perfect practice for their opening group match against Sri Lanka tomorrow . |
| 21 | In St Louis , we were booked in a 11,000 seater hall and I think 180 or so people came . |
| 22 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 23 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 24 | I was relieved to see a dozen or so people form up in front of me . |
| 25 | While white society engulfed the Christian Nez Perce , the 200 or so people of Joseph 's Wellamotkin band remained aloof in the Wallowa valley . |
| 26 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 27 | As a result , Dave Phillips , Stan Stanners and Cheese are off Foundation , and Todd Swank himself is the only vert skater left : ultimately nine or so people [ who rode vert ] got chucked off . |
| 28 | There may be a million or so people in the land who have the capacity to turn their hands to anything that 's going without feeling frustrated , or rebellious , or losing self-respect . |
| 29 | No one had been killed and only 20 or so people , all on shore , even slightly injured . |
| 30 | Obviously , when thirty or so people take rooms in a house , there 's going to be some to-ing and fro-ing at night . |