Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] or [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 2 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 3 | If you use Imigran more than once or twice a month , you should also be using a continuous anti-migraine treatment and reserving Imigran for breakthrough migraines . |
| 4 | He had no visitors , although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence . |
| 5 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 6 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |
| 7 | Year to year there are variations ; summer may start two weeks late , or two weeks early , or tentatively … and once or twice a year the weather goes into a sulk for a few days and refuses to co-operate with us . |
| 8 | Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal . |
| 9 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 10 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 11 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 12 | But Uncle Philip bathed in the tub as often as once or twice a week ; he seemed to exercise some occult authority over the geyser , for it never erupted when he lit it . |