Example sentences of "a [noun] or [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His strong , even teeth glinted white against the bronze of his skin , and with a peculiar detachment Shannon found herself wondering if the tan had come from a sun-bed or even a bottle . |
| 2 | When I 'm writing a course or even a session within the course , do you know what I spend most of my time writing the objective after a you know , you know but not after . |
| 3 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 4 | In fact , he holds a bronze medal , although it could have been a silver or even a gold if a ref in Los Angeles had n't acted too hastily . |
| 5 | So that 's another situation and as we 'll talk about and I hinted at yesterday er the dreaded vote of thanks situation and the the er giving of the gold watch and er and the being a best man at a wedding or even a bride or groom at a wedding er again is a is a way of helping this Aldershot method is a way of helping you to get your thoughts together and put them across effectively . |
| 6 | er if you stick to just just two as a maximum er ah an overhead and a flipchart or maybe a video and an overhead then it actually does n't it really helps not to confuse the audience . |
| 7 | These lies also alter the loft of the club ; a downhill lie will make a 5-iron into a 4-iron or even a 3-iron , whereas an uphill lie makes the club more lofted . |
| 8 | There was all the difference in the world between meeting a retired sporting hero behind the bar and meeting a shareholder or even a director . |
| 9 | Well they are , they are very nice , half a pound or just a couple ? |
| 10 | You do not need a thermostat , so a pond or even a brewer 's immersible heater is all right , connected to the mains with outdoor quality cable and plugs — via a circuit breaker for safety . |
| 11 | Once I catch a glimpse of the light of a car or maybe a tractor a long way up the valley , and this sees to make my isolation even more profound . |
| 12 | Imitation or role modelling by children describes the way that they copy the actions or behaviour of someone they admire , usually of their own sex and possibly a parent or even a tv character . |
| 13 | The village does n't have a pub or even a shop . |
| 14 | Making passing references to the poor , the black and to women does not make one a radical or even a liberal . |
| 15 | They inherited a suspicion or even a fear of drama often combined with the unspoken conviction shared by David Hargreaves that drama is a communal , performing art . |
| 16 | A solid object , whether it is a rock , a fish or even a plant stem distorts this field and the fish can immediately sense the change . |
| 17 | Secondly , since the public library is not strictly tied to the educational requirements of a user education programme in , say , a polytechnic or indeed a school , it can introduce some novelty into its programme which will arouse the excitement o f children . |
| 18 | Just as each human-being should bathe regularly , so the temple idol , if it is constructed of metal or stone , is bathed daily , several times a day or once a week . |
| 19 | Second , commodities and stocks are quoted almost continuously ( once a day or once a week ) ; art works are not . |
| 20 | Traditionally with relational database management systems companies would batch load data from the mainframe on maybe a a once a day or once a week basis and load that information onto the database systems and use it for decision support . |
| 21 | Bell took light from the sun , a lamp or even a candle , and used a lens to focus it into a beam . |
| 22 | Take a hot bath/shower Or treat yourself to a sauna or even a session in a beauty salon ! |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 24 | But whoever pays the bill , most of us still regularly visit the hairdresser , whether it 's once a week or once a year and as each town seems to have at least 20 salons , this is an entirely random list . |
| 25 | She does a lot of horse riding , erm , she has n't got her own horse any more , but she uses a local stable and gets to ride once , once a week or once a fortnight . |
| 26 | ‘ It may be once a week or once a fortnight perhaps , but it would n't be a lengthy period until the baby is older and more independent . |
| 27 | But I do n't , certainly do n't mind taking her down once a week or twice a week and taking me turn . |
| 28 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 29 | Many families are used to having a cat , a dog or perhaps a budgie as a family pet but there are moves to encourage us to think of chickens as an alternative . |
| 30 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |