Example sentences of "[noun] or [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 2 | Whether for an hour or even a full day , once you step on board it 's all hands on deck as crew members don their lifejackets and take to the seas in the adventure of a lifetime . |
| 3 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 4 | And there clearly are situations in which the collective opinion of a majority or even a dominant minority puts an unacceptable and sometimes intolerable pressure on the dissenting or deviant minority or individual . |
| 5 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 6 | It was obviously more than a weed or even a wild flower so I did a quick turn-round and decided that it was quite pretty with its two-tone yellow tubular flowers and ferny leaves . |
| 7 | Tropical species often use open sites , under a branch or even a large leaf . |
| 8 | At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations . |
| 9 | AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS . |
| 10 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 11 | If the above chord were required f or ff a good arrangement would be to replace the 1st trombone by a trumpet , and to lay out the chord thus : |
| 12 | Best of all were the knitted patchwork fragments , lash-stitched together as a coat , a skirt or even a zip-fronted poncho . |
| 13 | For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced , with no standing charge . |
| 14 | erm It was really one of the guidelines , it was the , if we considered doing that then I do n't think we would have had a four nation programme or certainly a five nation programme at the start , I do n't think we would 've er stayed together , it was really one of the basic requirements not to have that capability . |
| 15 | Is there a bottomless pit as suggested in the drawing or just a further depression that can be filled with a little more investment ? |
| 16 | In the first place it is argued that the real motive which underlay her ostentatious partisanship of enlightenment , especially in the 1760s , was not a concern for the well-being of her subjects or even a deep belief in ideas of enlightened government , but mere vanity . |
| 17 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 18 | For some women at this stage , cooking can become an absorbing hobby rather than the necessity of life it was when there were others to feed — a social pleasure or simply a personal indulgence . |
| 19 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 20 | But essentially all these tests do the same thing because they 're seeing whether the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample are robust over all sub-samples , right , we ca n't , we would n't bother testing over all sub-samples though we can do , it 's just if we have good reason to believe that behaviour in one sub-sample different for behaviour in another E G use er Chow test or equivalently a dummy variable on the intercept to see whether there was any change . |
| 21 | the only time he has meat he has to have green salad or maybe a raw vegetable salad . |
| 22 | They will then start all over again and go round the cockpit a second or even a third time . |
| 23 | If you 're young you might think that cushions or even a thick rug will be fine for sitting on but not everybody would be happy — or able — to put up with this and certainly older people would prefer something more comfortable . |
| 24 | Whether you are a keen follower of horoscopes or just a casual glancer , the chances are you wo n't miss your stars in each issue , which is why I 'm delighted to welcome an extraordinarily talented new astrologer to Good Housekeeping . |
| 25 | We do n't know if it was the judge or just a passing joker who wrote the card ‘ the last person to look like this was shot ’ . |
| 26 | Their rarity has led to the suggestion by Briscoe that the majority were made of a less durable material such as wood or even a soft stone such as chalk . |
| 27 | If the latter course is chosen the patient can either be transferred to a once-daily insulin regime with a long-acting insulin or alternatively a twice-daily regime perhaps with a fixed combination of short- and intermediate-acting insulin . |
| 28 | There is also an adult with them at all times , often a parent or sometimes a social worker . |
| 29 | We 'll have ha we will have been an irrel irrelevant to them for so long that when they do find another job or even a first job , then we will have a major task to convince them of the value of trade union membership . |
| 30 | Either a spaniel or quite a big dog . |