Example sentences of "[art] [num] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 2 | I intend us to have a better record on inflation in the 1990s than in either the 1970s or the 1980s . |
| 3 | Right , so normally we , you know , we want to be reasonably confident , right , so we want to have a reasonably small significance level we do n't want that significance level to be too small , otherwise the power of the test will diminish very rapidly so we normally use the ten or the five percent , five percent level and if you just look at the er the five percent column , right , overall realistic sample sizes , right , from a hundred and twenty down to , to about twenty , I , those T ratios were the critical value they are all about two and that 's why we say you can have a T ratio of about greater than two , then you can be at least ninety five percent confident about your inference . |
| 4 | These Rotaflex ones that you spoke of , were they in the fifties or the early sixties ? |
| 5 | just to make my day just to make my day yeah well , I was n't sure what those you see , hang on a minute mum so er she said she 'll either get the twelve or the one so I went down to see if she was on the twelve o'clock bus , and she was n't so I thought well I 'll try again |
| 6 | In many such cases , there can not be a clear answer in favour of the one or the other . |
| 7 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 8 | The true danger to English today , according to Mr Francis , is not a decline in standards from some mythical golden age in the 1930s or the eighteenth century , but that the National Curriculum will stifle imagination , and mark a return to over-emphasis on rigid expository forms . |
| 9 | Every morning in my childhood the businessmen caught the 8.25 or the 8.50 or the 9.18 trains in Manchester . |
| 10 | Every morning in my childhood the businessmen caught the 8.25 or the 8.50 or the 9.18 trains in Manchester . |
| 11 | The four or the fourteen ? |
| 12 | Prices and values can not be higher than what people can pay — which means , how much people can borrow — and lenders , belatedly learning prudence , are no longer willing to give the high multiples of gross income they did in the 1980s or the high proportion of price . |
| 13 | One of the first battles between the giants of the world aerospace industry will be for a $2billion order from British Airways for either the 777 or the A330 to replace its ageing fleet of Tristars . |
| 14 | Achard 's two theological treatises , the De Trinitate and the De Discretione Animae Spiritus et Mentis , probably belong to the 1140s or the early 1150s . |
| 15 | rebuild er every fifty or a hundred years or whatever ? |
| 16 | I usually fish four or five maggots on a 12 hook ; two or three grains of sweetcorn on a 10 or an 8 . |
| 17 | On the spectrum of improbabilities , the spotlight turns out to illuminate only the narrow range from the left-hand end ( certainty ) up to minor miracles , like a hole-in-one or a dream that comes true . |
| 18 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 19 | But other platforms will come in the future so we can see us using sta very low cost standard hardware components , we might stack up erm half a dozen or a dozen erm workstations with a high speed interconnect between them each running a SQL Server . |
| 20 | That 's what I said , to do that and hope for a three or a six or another five or a king . |
| 21 | Or a three or a six . |
| 22 | So most important thing about functions , is what sort of functions is it a one-one or a many-one ? |
| 23 | And is it a one-one or a many-one . |
| 24 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 25 | You could either have a ten or a twelve pound |
| 26 | He pulled the coil of plastic-covered wire forty times , pausing between every ten or a dozen efforts . |
| 27 | ‘ He ought to be a twelve or a thirteen , he 's so good . |
| 28 | When data — that is , a 1 or a 0 — is applied to the D input , nothing happens . |
| 29 | Does twenty four end in a five or a nought ? |
| 30 | Is that a four or a five ? |