Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana enjoyed herself enormously at the birthday party not least because it brought her sister down a peg or two . |
| 2 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 3 | There is an invisible frontier just a mile or so on the road north out of Luanda , but it is more of a feeling than anything else . |
| 4 | I think it 'll have to be put in the garage and then put in the car once a week or something . |
| 5 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 6 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 7 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 8 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 9 | The Warden had robbed her of her rightful position of importance in the drama , but at least she could make herself feel better by taking this girl down a peg or two . |
| 10 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 11 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 12 | Du Pont Pixel says , ‘ the OGI strategy is now operational and Silicon Graphics ca n't afford to take their markets for granted anymore , with this architecture once a piece or hardware or software has been modified it will run on full blown Sparcstations , clones , in fact anything that it is Sparc-compatible ’ . |
| 13 | They are into philosophical time , producing work once a year or less . |
| 14 | Cropping up now and again in the nationals from Nottingham , has been the story of the mongrel Merv , named after Merv Hughes the Australian cricketer , who tried to grab hold of er Merv on the first day of the test about a week or so ago . |
| 15 | Erm , the employment services has agreed to fund that entirely , so it 's not erm the company 's not having to make any contribution towards it , and very probably there will be a second course a week or two later . |
| 16 | It is a rather recent article in this publication and was drawn to my attention only a week or so ago . |
| 17 | The island is little more than a dozen miles long and in places only a mile or two wide . |
| 18 | Is the leader just a leader or are there several different types ? |
| 19 | Dreadnought held on to third place about a second or so behind Strega and Rare Bear . |
| 20 | With a new lease of energy I reached the top only a minute or two after them . |
| 21 | They can travel easily in silty water only a metre or so deep , and as the waters recede they can remember the way back to the river bed along deep channels . |
| 22 | Most parents expect their children to be clean by the age of 2½ years , but 16 per cent of 3-year-olds still show signs of faecal incontinence once a week or more . |
| 23 | This woman has n't a bean , so she 's going to pose for my wife and her girlfriends once a month or so , and she 'll get the classes thrown in free . |
| 24 | A great detective might have considered this an astounding coincidence were it not for the fact that the hostelry was the only place in the whole of King 's Magnum Parva where a lady or a gentleman might obtain a meal . |
| 25 | Or maybe — in a siding only a mile or two from where I lay — a cleaner 's brush was at this moment encountering the bag , wedged back under the seat … |
| 26 | allocated in August 1991 and another £50,000 in loans only a week or so ago . |
| 27 | The usefulness of certain of the activities , like visiting old people once a year or screening , was disputed by the medical profession . |
| 28 | Should n't have give him that tin , that 's why dogs are that 's why you 're instructed to feed a dog once a day or whatever it is . |
| 29 | He sees his trade once a week or once in two weeks , and covers three or four towns in a day . |
| 30 | Expect your appetite to get out of control once a month or so : if you predict it , you can cope with it more readily . |