Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] or [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The method 's worked twice for me , so it may be the definitive cure or just a pathetic coincidence . |
| 2 | The spark that does often make people go is when there are changes in the international organisation or indeed a change in the fortunes of the company . |
| 3 | They may have contained either small units of the regular army or perhaps a locally raised militia . |
| 4 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 5 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 6 | NEIL PROSSER , co-owner of four Chipie shops , likes the options the label offers : ‘ You can buy the whole look or just a T-shirt . ’ |
| 7 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |