Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |
| 2 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 3 | An empty house just a mile or two outside St Margaret 's Hope village was put at the disposal of the Committee . |
| 4 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 5 | Irwin succeeded in establishing his own , but not in destroying that of Gandhi , which acquired a greater effulgence every time — eight in all — he trudged down Lutyens ' great new processional way , opened with brilliant festivity just a week or so ago , carrying only a manila folder and his ever-present staff , to meet the lord of all the world that most of his fellow Indians knew . |
| 6 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 7 | They can travel easily in silty water only a metre or so deep , and as the waters recede they can remember the way back to the river bed along deep channels . |
| 8 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 9 | There is an invisible frontier just a mile or so on the road north out of Luanda , but it is more of a feeling than anything else . |
| 10 | The headline in the London Standard read ‘ The professor what do n't know nothing ’ , and the subheading expressed the exact opposite of the truth : ‘ Is correct English just a dialect or could it possibly be a useful tool for a youngster in search of a job ? |
| 11 | Dreadnought held on to third place about a second or so behind Strega and Rare Bear . |