Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] or [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every |
| 2 | For six years or so the CNAA had moved with caution — indeed , only one of its officers , Francis Hanrott , had any previous experience involving contact with teacher education , and he was given responsibility for the various levels of negotiation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 6 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
| 7 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 8 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 9 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |
| 10 | For stays of four nights or more the hotel invite you to a three course lunch or dinner in their award winning restaurant ( drinks extra ) . |
| 11 | It was made clear in a further policy statement that in those cases where the tariff was 20 years or more the reference to the local review committee would be made after 17 years had been served , though a warning was given that this did not imply that any particular period had been set for the prisoner 's tariff . |
| 12 | Because of the small number of women completing 24 cycles or more the suggestion in our data that both groups will eventually have the same pregnancy rate , must be interpreted with caution . |