Example sentences of "or [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students specialise in either Danish , Norwegian or Swedish and the chosen area may then be studied as a single honours course or part of a joint honours course in Modern European Languages and with Scottish Ethnology or Linguistics . |
| 2 | Immerse the section , slab or plaquette in the reagent contained in a suitable dish or tray for a few seconds or until the yellow precipitate forms . |
| 3 | A history teacher is content to cover the history of one country or continent over a few decades . |
| 4 | She 'll be away at a family wedding or funeral for a few days . |
| 5 | Their chairman would have the support of both the Secretary of State and the LEA in discouraging , and ultimately forbidding , discussion of the performance of an individual pupil or teacher at an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 6 | In this case , the role effectively changes from one of service management to one of a franchise operation , with Colleges having the right to market the education product or service in a defined areas , constrained mainly by the overall strategic plan set by the LEA . |
| 7 | According to many local people , the police hold refugees without food or water for a few days , then turn them loose in the desert near the Somali or Ethiopian borders - too far for them to walk back . |
| 8 | If one takes wines such as these together with the inevitably ill-fated attempts to make a red wine from black grapes grown in a climate barely hospitable enough to ripen a grape , let alone colour it , a wealth of curiously coloured , clouded wines must have constituted the norm , despite a half-hidden glint of pink or red in a few instances . |
| 9 | You can make a simple , stable frequency-shift-keying ( FSK ) generator by adding an exclusive- OR gate to a standard cmos oscillator . |
| 10 | This portable version allows her out of home or hospital for a few hours … but for most of her life she must stay connected to a larger non-stop supply . |
| 11 | Now , each householder or tenant in a Scottish Homes estate in West Lothian has to pay for this service as well their poll tax . |
| 12 | ENTERTAINING — whether a formal party or dinner for a few friends — is something which most people enjoy . |