Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses . |
| 8 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 9 | This may actually be seen to better advantage in conversion to offices or even a house . |
| 10 | For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced , with no standing charge . |
| 11 | It will no doubt suit a good top coat , or perhaps cushion covers or possibly a bed cover . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 19 | Difficulties only arise when dieters get it into their heads that only a certain source of protein is acceptable and therefore restrict the overall range . |
| 20 | In the course of their researches , Les and Pam discovered that the Ministry of Defence ( Air ) had no list of Far East survivors nor even a complete list of those captured by the Japanese . |
| 21 | The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine . |
| 22 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 23 | He has also made the ‘ Chorus Line ’ of paired sets of dancing legs and even a soccer tackle with contrasting team shorts on the legs plus a suspended ball ! |
| 24 | For disillusioned people like me , why not have a method of showing displeasure by having on the ballot paper the names of the aspiring candidates and also a space for a no confidence vote . |
| 25 | ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’ |
| 26 | In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian . |
| 27 | The package provides worldwide , 24 hour cover for lost or damaged equipment , protection in the UK in the event of personal accident , liabilities to third parties and even a ‘ hole-in-one ’ cover to buy a round of drinks at the 19th . |
| 28 | Saudi Arabia , accounting for almost half of the Middle East 's proven oil reserves and over a quarter of world proven reserves , has the power to insist upon its rôle as OPEC 's swing producer . |
| 29 | Liverpool 's docks were thronged with visitors , eager to see around warships and even a German submarine , which were opened to the public . |
| 30 | The yew contains a mixture of poisonous compounds and only a chemist can extract anything good from it so people should n't eat or drink anything connected with the Yew tree . |