Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 2 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 3 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
| 4 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 5 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
| 6 | If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer . |
| 7 | I want my money or all the fucking stuff back . ’ |
| 8 | when a single entry or all the entries in the range are cross-referenced by other entries . |
| 9 | when a single entry or all the entries in the range cross-reference other entries . |
| 10 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
| 11 | You do n't go pennies , you go sort of ten thousand pound or half a million on this one now ! |
| 12 | Apart from adding a starter , you can add bacteria and ‘ seed ’ ; the tank by adding water from an already sound tank ; by adding media ( say gravel from the undergravel or half a filter sponge ) to the filter ; and by washing out a mature in-use filter in the new tank . |
| 13 | But his cash income of 80 yuan a month , even when supplemented by the sale of a pig or two a year , gives the family a yearly cash income of no more than 1,500 yuan . |
| 14 | If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view . |
| 15 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
| 16 | For a second or two the moon escapes from behind the rushing clouds casting silvery shadows on the ruined abbey . |
| 17 | For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal . |
| 18 | The doctor said : ‘ A specimen of blood showed he had drunk the equivalent of nine or ten pints of lager or half a bottle of spirits . ’ |
| 19 | I mean it 's a logical , it seems plausible anyway , erm empirical evidence , however , suggests that that is n't why we have rapid migration or such a large degree of migration . |
| 20 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 21 | I could turn convict , he thought , and live in prison and it would n't matter then about a job or all the things ahead that looks so unpromising . |
| 22 | They provided education , free education , free health services erm one of the modern communication system and ports erm and they ensure job for every Kuwaiti , so you will not find an unemployed Kuwaiti , as soon as he is able to do one job or another the Government provided the training for a large number of Kuwaiti to provide technical works . |
| 23 | Effects vary according to individual health , weight and sex but , as a rough measure , three single whiskies drunk in one hour might result in 0.05% alcohol content in the blood — this would lift spirits and lessen inhibitions ( a single whisky is equivalent to one glass of wine or half a pint of beer ) . |
| 24 | At some point or other the student of local history will encounter dates expressed in a variety of different ways with which he will have to become familiar . |
| 25 | Journalists worried that ‘ MDs ’ appointed by the government would not ‘ cover ’ them ; and independence indeed remained a fragile plant : there was an election of one sort or another every year between 1977 and 1981 . |
| 26 | He had probably told her a lie of one sort or another every time they met . |
| 27 | The hotter the climate or higher the altitude , the higher the protection you will need . |
| 28 | I do n't know what it was about Holland , whether it was the food , the water or all the chocolates they gave me , but I grew , how I grew . |
| 29 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 30 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |