Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er the only thing is that er it was the people on the workshop floor that were paid from it er rather than the er planning er personnel or indeed the drawing office . |
| 2 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 3 | ‘ Persons in my position customarily wed , not according to their own choosing — but in accordance with the wishes or indeed the ambitions of their elders . |
| 4 | It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift . |
| 5 | If your employee was employed by you for a continuous period of at least two calendar years into the qualifying week and normally worked 16 hours or more a week , she is eligible for the higher rate of SMP . |
| 6 | Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit . |
| 7 | Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation . |
| 8 | Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays . |
| 9 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 10 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 11 | However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable . |
| 12 | These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists . |
| 13 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 14 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
| 15 | A wide choice of expertly planned Latin American tours with guaranteed departures allow the traveller to explore either in small groups or independently the mysteries of this largely unexplored continent . |
| 16 | This may actually be seen to better advantage in conversion to offices or even a house . |
| 17 | For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced , with no standing charge . |
| 18 | It will no doubt suit a good top coat , or perhaps cushion covers or possibly a bed cover . |
| 19 | In the first place it is argued that the real motive which underlay her ostentatious partisanship of enlightenment , especially in the 1760s , was not a concern for the well-being of her subjects or even a deep belief in ideas of enlightened government , but mere vanity . |
| 20 | Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon . |
| 21 | The most commonly affected joints are the stifles , knees , fetlocks or hocks , and more rarely , the shoulders or even the joints between the spinal column anywhere in the back . |
| 22 | We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data . |
| 23 | So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 25 | However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series . |
| 26 | We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training . |
| 27 | • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every |
| 28 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 29 | It was a simple , but very pertinent observation and re-emphasised that over the last 18 months or so the All Blacks have been steadily squeezed in the nutcracker of their own ambition . |
| 30 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |