Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays .
2 At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week .
3 However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable .
4 Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity .
5 These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists .
6 However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series .
7 • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every
8 We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training .
9 Manson & Co. guitars are n't as cheap as Japanese imports but what you 're getting is one of the classiest handmade acoustics in Britain , fully customised to your requirements with extra inlays or even a pickup , and left-handers do n't cost a bean extra .
10 And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so .
11 do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la
12 Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question .
13 Alan Charig , of London University , also says that no allowance has been made for differing life-spans or even the palatability of the different dead animals , nor for the robustness of fossilized skeletons , nor the latitude at which fossils have been found .
14 However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation .
15 This may be in the form of land between existing dwellings or often the assembly and foreshortening of long back gardens in order to permit development .
16 Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this .
17 Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads .
18 In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru .
19 Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation .
20 If your employee was employed by you for a continuous period of at least two calendar years into the qualifying week and normally worked 16 hours or more a week , she is eligible for the higher rate of SMP .
21 Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit .
22 They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total .
23 Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue .
24 However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again .
25 For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small .
26 If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier .
27 Persons to whom it is not convenient to pay a full price , instead of the inside , sit on the top of the coach , without any seats or even a rail .
28 DEPTH — is an input parameter indicating whether all of the package structure is to be searched for eligible modules or just the root package .
29 Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon .
30 The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income .
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