Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] a [adj] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ? |
| 2 | You ge yo you must n't take it over er , three and a half things or eighty miles an hour |
| 3 | The Archbishop , who has throughout er the last er three and a half years or more , since Terry Waite was kidnapped , he and the hostage families have stayed very much in touch with each other and they have supported each other and he agrees with them now that the Government , on this particular question , is wrong . |
| 4 | A key or a lifeless deed or a cheap Roberts reproduction , perhaps a family snapshot or a tourist postcard of the 1930s , is the nearest that many Palestinian exiles can move in spirit towards the place they regard as their homeland . |
| 5 | Anyone with a suspected heart condition or serious bleeding or a major fracture or head injury comes first , though , and every time an ambulance brings someone , they get seen immediately in the trolley area . ’ |
| 6 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 7 | They specialised in questions which , to quote Bowley , " required an answer of 'yes ' or 'no' or a simple number or something equally definite and precise " . |
| 8 | In the case of well-motivated students with a high aptitude , the learning rate may be increased by one and a half times or even more , according to Valette and Disick . |
| 9 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 10 | As the submarine nosed around the island 's waters for three days , often making one and a half knots or less , there were a number of unanswered questions . |
| 11 | If one took the distance as only one kilometre and we regard that as absolutely insufficient for a village of the character of Flaxton , we would prefer one and a half miles or two point four kilometres as the minimum . |
| 12 | Perhaps ‘ end of term ’ reports on individual authorities and schools after their first two and a half years or so of implementing the 1981 Act ( when the research data were finally gathered ) would range from commenting , ‘ Encouraging progress has been made ’ , through the ubiquitous ‘ Could do better ’ to ‘ Disappointing work . |
| 13 | We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety |