Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] or [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With great difficulty I obtained a copy of this document and while it stated that ‘ public servants should not reveal the opinions and attitudes of colleagues as to the government business with which they have been concerned ’ , another section said quite clearly that a reasonable timescale for a public servant 's silence would be ‘ fifteen years or for the service life of the adviser , whichever is the longer ’ . |
| 2 | In IRC v Plummer [ 1979 ] STC 793 , a " Reverse Annuity Scheme " was entered into under which a charity paid money to the taxpayer who covenanted to make annual payments to the charity for the period of five years or during the remainder of the life of the taxpayer whichever be the shorter . |
| 3 | There is little difference in the custodial rates for the two offences or in the length of sentences . ’ |
| 4 | Does the Secretary of State accept that the debate on Trident in Scotland is not on whether we should have three or four boats or on the number of warheads per missile but on whether we should proceed with expenditure which , over its lifetime , could amount to £23,000 million on a useless , dangerous military white elephant ? |
| 5 | It is important to put a purchaser on notice that he will only get a good receipt if he pays any purchase money to two trustees or to a trust corporation ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 6 | Dostoevsky had no use for the two peasants or for the hood and the cudgel , but he wanted the cap . |
| 7 | The vision can wander about the void but one part of a void is like another and there can be no consciousness of movement until two locations have been defined , either by two dots or by the displacement of one dot , which requires memory of its path . |