Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you receive payment for looking after one or more children who are not related to you , for 2 hours or more per day , then you should , by law , register with your local Social Services Department . |
| 2 | Membership is automatic if you are at least 16 years old and work for 30 hours or more per week . |
| 3 | But can you think of anybody for yourself who you could think of who over the recently or over the in the past few centuries or closer to home have shown the gifts of the Holy Spirit in their lives ? |
| 4 | ‘ While tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25pc of mortgages outstanding , and the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 5 | ‘ Whilst tragic in any circumstances , property repossessions were at a very low level , representing only 0.25 per cent of mortgages outstanding , and at the year end not one mortgage was 12 months or more in arrear . |
| 6 | At 31 January , 1993 , the number of mortgages where payments were 12 months or more in arrears had risen 24 per cent to 22,486 , representing 0.51 per cent of mortgage balances . |
| 7 | Britain 's local councils charge £6-10 a ton to put solid waste in landfills : a price , say the commercial firms , that does not reflect capital investment or the sums that must be et aside to ensure a landfill is properly maintained during its 30 years or so of life . |
| 8 | It undoubtedly appears from this report that , among other factors , decision making in risk management is not consistent across different banks or even within banks ; bank managers give a disproportionate attention to the small business 's founders ' ability to provide security for a loan when assessing risk ; and , although the business plan to recruit a director to handle IT issues was crucial to the company 's success , most of the bank managers interviewed paid scant attention to that factor . |
| 9 | Since the abolition of direct imprisonment for debts not exceeding £20 , the Insolvent Debtors Court and , after its abolition , the Bankruptcy Court in London and the county courts in the provinces , had possessed the power of imprisonment for forty days or less upon proof of means to pay or fraud . |
| 10 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 11 | Meanwhile make gravy by stirring flour into 2 tbs or so of pan juices over heat , with mushrooms still in pan . |
| 12 | Central bodies were not to negotiate on the transfer of facilities to Lithuanian jurisdiction ( on March 13 the Lithuanian Supreme Council had passed a bill establishing the principle of Lithuanian jurisdiction over all economic facilities in the republic currently held solely by the USSR central authorities or jointly with Lithuania ) . |
| 13 | ‘ The Society also looks at the loans that are six months or more in arrears but have not been taken into possession , and adds a percentage of such arrears to the specific provision figure . |
| 14 | She also questions the usefulness of looking only at those who are six months or more in arrears . |
| 15 | Preparations for pregnancy can begin six months or more before conception with a healthy diet — plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables , preferably organically grown and as few chemicals in the form of food additives as is possible . |
| 16 | This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period . |
| 17 | The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point . |
| 18 | The prepatent period ranges from 5-6 weeks in chicks to eight weeks or more in adult birds . |
| 19 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 20 | So three hours or so of lecture , three hours or so of seminar and . |
| 21 | A benefit paid to people under 65 who spend 35 hours or more per week looking after someone who receives Attendance Allowance . |
| 22 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 23 | The Bank stands ready to buy from market makers , and at a price of its own choosing , any stock with three months or less to maturity ; it is also usually prepared to quote a price for stocks with between three and twelve months to maturity . |
| 24 | Early botanists had based their accounts either upon brief visits or else upon information or specimens provided by others . |
| 25 | The congers were ugly-looking brutes , some of them three feet or more in length ; Pierre warned me they could bite through a sea-boot . |
| 26 | Some viruses can be so vicious that if you do not take care of yourself for a couple of days when you first fall ill you could spend three weeks or more under par . |
| 27 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 28 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 29 | Of course anything as scientific as a mechanical test has not always found favour with traditional craftsmen or indeed with business men . |
| 30 | He spent 4 years or so with QPR and starred in the FA Cup final in 1982 . |