Example sentences of "[det] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is this a hoax or something ? |
| 2 | PAMELA : Your honour may call this a jest or what you please , but , sir , it is not a jest that becomes you . |
| 3 | He should have been doing this a year or two ago , in the hope that extra jobs would have been created before now . |
| 4 | Do this a day or two before planting , so that after one or two waterings , the soil under the planting position is thoroughly wet , with the moisture where it should be — deep under . |
| 5 | Is this a theory or is it a truth ? |
| 6 | ‘ Is this a mosque or an Assembly ? ’ , the host asked , and switched the programme off . |
| 7 | Is this a quotation or is it Ash himself ? |
| 8 | Is this a funeral or a party ? |
| 9 | Was this a command or a statement ? |
| 10 | Nowadays , I understand , Remploy has become a self-financing business and employs able-bodied people : is this a loss or a gain ? |
| 11 | ‘ The standard unit is half a pint or a single spirit measure , but my standard glass , poured with a generous hand , would contain four or five single measures . |
| 12 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 13 | Pain entered my left arm and was for a short time , half a minute or so , quite hurtful . |
| 14 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 15 | Through extensive interviews , it focuses on the lives of 15 British men and women , aged between 70 and 90 , who have dedicated half a century or longer to working for social change and justice . |
| 16 | In the country of its origin , England , it was well established , and working well , half a century or a century before the franchise became at all democratic . |
| 17 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 18 | A variant of the language has evolved in the course of the past half a century or thereabouts , and is used everywhere . |
| 19 | John Hales of Coventry , a bitter opponent of enclosures , wrote in 1549 that the bulk of them had occurred before the accession of Henry VII , and the Italian historian Polydore Vergil ( probably writing about 1530 ) , said of the proceedings of 1517 , that for half a century or more previously , sheep-farming nobles had tried to find devices to increase the income of their lands , and that to this end they had destroyed dwelling-houses and filled up the land with animals . |
| 20 | A ‘ session ’ may be a half a day or a whole day . |
| 21 | Plan to take your team away for half a day or a day . |
| 22 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 23 | People who are n't staying at the centre can book for half a day or day long activity sessions too . |
| 24 | And each visit is a session whether it 's a day or half a day or twenty |
| 25 | 1 seminar of half a day or 1 day |
| 26 | ‘ They are about half a mile or so away , ’ he replied , ‘ and , most important , they are our guns . |
| 27 | Overall , in Britain , more than one in three of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot and pedestrian journeys of half a mile or less make up one-sixth of total personal transport demand . |
| 28 | Sailplanes are often launched by means of half a mile or so of wire , reeled in by a winch . |
| 29 | Dr Reid 's bungalow — half a mile or so up the hill — was a house of character , a real home , filled with the personality of the man himself . |
| 30 | Half a mile or so out , we swam in the deep water under the lee of the conical shape of the High Island 's volcano . |