Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must be able to cope with aridity , high daily and seasonal temperature ranges , seasonal swings in photoperiod from long days to long nights , and a growing season ranging in length from three to four months on the polar fringes to a few days or even hours in higher latitudes . |
| 2 | Education must , at all costs , eschew all tendencies or even appearances of a commitment to the maintenance and reproduction of the unjust social order and undemocratic value system to the overthrow of which we sacrificed so much in the struggle . |
| 3 | Minerals giving very low intensity emission , such as quartz grains , required many minutes or even hours of exposure with fast films . |
| 4 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
| 5 | A new report says growing numbers of tenants are facing illegal evictions or even threats of violence . |
| 6 | They may be remnants of severe tidal encounters or even mergers between normal stars . |
| 7 | But clearly some patients are well-informed citizens or even experts in their own illnesses ( Macintyre and Oldman 1977 ) . |
| 8 | And although some 6,000 of them did fight , either in their own units or occasionally side by side with Afghans , most returned home without incident . |
| 9 | While it is of course very difficult to fix an offer price several weeks or even months in advance who knows how share prices in general will change in the meantime ? — the table does seem to confirm our earlier claim that , on average , the offer price was set below the free market price . |
| 10 | Apart from that fucking business card they have no forensic evidence ; no weapons , bloodstained clothes or even minutiae like hairs or fibres to link me with any of the attacks . |
| 11 | My difficulty is as as you 've already heard I 've got no mandate to speak about particular locations or even sectors within Selby District although clearly I do have a mandate as I already have said to come along and say that we feel Selby District is an appropriate location . |
| 12 | I was looking for a business venture worthy of my silver , some trade across the Narrow Seas or perhaps commerce with the Baltic . |
| 13 | About four miles or so west of Castelnuovo is the estate of Curina with a 17th century villa and rural outhouses which have been tastefully restored . |
| 14 | They were usually prescribed tranquillizers or even placebos like ascorbic acid ( Vitamin C ) . |