Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 2 | The Sunday Times reported that ‘ the elderly will be encouraged to stay in paid employment until they are 70 or even older . ’ |
| 3 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 4 | Nor will 60 , 70 or even more hon. Members when they lose their seats , plus another 100 or so who will retire . |
| 5 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 6 | Cross bunkers are common 70 or so yards short of the greens , which are all well bunkered , some fiendishly . |
| 7 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 8 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 9 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 10 | Estimates suggest that there may be enough coal left to last a few more hundred years , enough oil to last perhaps 70 or so years and natural gas could run out within 50 years . |
| 11 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 12 | The unnamed servers may go to go 32 or even 64 CPUs in the future , whilst a 150MHz iteration of the R4000A is scheduled for the end of next year and the company even talks of a 500MHz part . |
| 13 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 14 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 15 | He was about fifty or rather more . |
| 16 | A striking example is provided by a famous maker of astronomical instruments , Jean Fusoris , who was arrested on suspicion of treason in 1415 , during the invasion of France by Henry V. Interrogated twice in a single year , on the first occasion he claimed to be ‘ fifty or thereabouts , and on the second ‘ sixty or thereabouts ! ’ |
| 17 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 18 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | He had slight success with tri-iodobenzoic acid , but it was J. Lehmann , in Sweden , who found that , among some fifty or so compounds tested , p -aminosalicylic acid , commonly known as PAS , prevented the growth of tubercle bacilli . |
| 21 | As I drove the fifty or so miles back home I thought that I would rewrite the story , the history rather , of the Butcher . |
| 22 | Later in the war they built 1,135 Mosquitos , before going on to produce fifty or so Fox Moths — and then their own indigenous designs after the conflict ceased . |
| 23 | These fifty or so gifts , of which some twenty are known to have survived , constitute the true first edition of 1865 . |
| 24 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 25 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 26 | When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly , the Trunchbull marched on to the platform . |
| 27 | Just below the glen the valley widens out into what is known as Rocky Valley , finally dropping off the map in rugged cliffs with a fall of some fifty or so feet down to the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 28 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |