Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you hear it said that we are going to live with stable currencies or even with a single currency for Europe ; that recovery will be slow ; that inflation will stay down while interest rates stay up — poison for precious metals . |
| 2 | From Highways Department — Shared Use Cycle Tracks , Baberton from the eastern side of Baberton Mains Loan and extending east and south east for a distance of 175 metres or thereby to a point immediately north of 8 , Baberton Crescent . |
| 3 | unc unc A metre is about 39.4 inches or slightly over a yard in length . |
| 4 | It 's alw always very useful that er erm if we have to people have to ask us to wait around for them for five or six weeks or sometimes on a three monthly er er resignation thing it er |
| 5 | Greater and lesser frequency existed in about equal proportions , but nearly twice as many of this married population had intercourse only once a week , or less often , than had intercourse three times or more in a week . |
| 6 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 7 | Middle- or upper-class grief is hidden under controlled facial muscles or even under a black veil , as with members of the royal family . |
| 8 | There are , finding fifty hectares or thereabouts for a development of this kind and characteristic out of the districts ' allocations on the one hand in their geography , you know that has to be broadly speaking within the existing settlement pattern on the other , not possible . |
| 9 | Such an event might be theft , fire , illness or even death ; within the next year , the next many years or even within a lifetime . |
| 10 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 11 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 12 | The SAS Royal Hotel invites all Amsterdam Travel Service guests staying 3 nights or more to a free 3-course dinner in the Palmboom Restaurant ( excluding drinks ) . |
| 13 | The Hotel American invites all Amsterdam Travel Service guests who stay 3 nights or more to a free dinner . |
| 14 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 15 | Many other substances play a minor role as insect pigments , occurring either in small amounts or only in a few species . |
| 16 | This process is beyond definition as some wild animal , writhing in a fiery abyss , spitting out its ugly secretions or even as a ‘ fount of pure delight ’ . |
| 17 | 15 words or less to a sentence . |
| 18 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 19 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 20 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 21 | Interferon has been given for 24 weeks or longer in a few , mainly Mediterranean , studies ( response rates 26% to 70% ) . |