Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 11 , the majority of children were hit less than once a month or never . |
| 2 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 3 | They may happen once or twice a week or several times in an hour . |
| 4 | For many parents there is n't time to do this more than once a week or so , but it can be a rewarding time . |
| 5 | The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | Yet in our bones we all know that there is such a thing as national character , even if only a fool or a racist would attempt to define its precise ingredients . |
| 7 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 8 | Here and there a Marco or Giuseppe . |