Example sentences of "or [adv] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average age at which people marry remained more or less stable for the preceding two centuries until the end of the Second World War , when it began to fall , but there were notable changes in the pattern of childbearing , especially between 1870 and 1930 . |
| 2 | Admittedly the American signals were sometimes confusing , or sufficiently ambiguous for the British to read them selectively , especially those which continued to indicate deep American suspicion of Nasser . |
| 3 | The General Household Survey asks respondents to rate their overall health as good , poor or fairly good for the previous year . |
| 4 | What is surprising is that a new colony has settled down to breed so quickly — it normally takes a year or even longer for a newly-formed pair to get down to breeding . |
| 5 | The caddis chooses its stones carefully , rejecting those that are too large or too small for the current gap in the wall , even rotating each stone until it achieves the snuggest fit . |