Example sentences of "or [adv] [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shops were still open — it was more or less late night every night this time of year — I remember that . |
| 2 | Such rules of change may be very simple or very complex : the powers conferred may be unrestricted or limited in various ways : and the rules may , besides specifying the persons who are to legislate , define in more or less rigid terms the procedure to be followed in legislation . |
| 3 | It is important to build a new structure for the week with a basic plan be out so many days or evenings a week , or so many hours a day . |
| 4 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 5 | I asked Roger how he managed to establish this kind of control , to reproduce with twenty or more disruptive pupils the semblance of a ‘ model ’ lesson . |
| 6 | Late last night or early this morning a number of armed men ( to the amount of 30 ) landed at this place , by two boats from an American privateer , as appears from one of the people now in custody … |
| 7 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 8 | Some 88 million bottles are consumed every year , i.e the equivalent of nearly ¼ million bottles every day — or about three bottles every second of every day . |
| 9 | While the banks may then try to sue the council or even individual officers the risk is very widely spread and no financial institution will be put in danger . |
| 10 | Surely they could see if two buses or even one bus an hour would be more economical . |
| 11 | They lay more eggs than European owls : the mean clutch size in Malaysia is 6.6 compared with around 5.5 in Europe ; and while Europeans lay only one clutch each year , the Malayan barn owls reproduce twice or even three times a year . |
| 12 | Nor do I believe that to be a good Christian you have to attend chapel or church every week , or even three times a year . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly Brazil has the best hydro-electric power potential of any country in the world estimated at over 200,000 MW or around four times the capacity of the UK 's national grid . |