Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going on a summmer holiday no more working for a week or two . |
| 2 | It 's worth gathering as many prizes as possible for a raffle or draw . |
| 3 | It is possible for a company or group to acquire further ACT capacity by purchasing a company that has it . |
| 4 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 5 | Maybe I did fall asleep for a moment or two when I shut my eyes hoping to enter my dream again . |
| 6 | A few were prepared to take big salary cuts and throw away the security of their present employment — others were just grateful for a job or the chance to work on a national . |
| 7 | Well , I suppose it 's better than nothing , but I 'd be grateful for a month or two 's notice when you do decide to go . |
| 8 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 9 | My former BBC colleague at Westminster , John Harrison , reporting from Zimbabwe on Maundy Thursday , caught the horror of it in a memorable phrase : the cost of an Easter egg , he said , would keep a child alive for a month or more . |
| 10 | Many daughters who are caring full-time for a parent or parents at home have financial worries too . |
| 11 | All these examples pre-suppose , without justification , that for a school or college partnership means work-experience . |
| 12 | See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two . |
| 13 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 14 | ‘ Leave it like that for a day or two . ’ |
| 15 | That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet . |
| 16 | Was that for a couple or single ? |
| 17 | Just walk around with that for an hour or so . |
| 18 | Because I mean , that , it , it costs the earth anyway , that damn stuff , it really does , with it , and it 's a , well I , I did it on about eight hundred sheep so you know , my men are stuck in this for a day or two . |
| 19 | Continue this for a week or two , and compare the two records to see if there are any likely suspects . |
| 20 | I puzzled over this for a week or so , before a second whisper clarified the message . |
| 21 | She thought about this for a moment or two and then said : ‘ I see no harm in that . |
| 22 | It was more practicable to do this for a district or industry , since firm-by-firm bargaining was precluded for want of suitable union organisation to bring together all employees at the workplace . |
| 23 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
| 24 | The skull and beak could withstand enormous stresses during biting , far beyond anything conceivable for a leaf or nut-eater . |
| 25 | Where the floating charge is in favour of a ‘ connected person ’ it is easier for an administrator or liquidator to challenge the charge . |
| 26 | This month 's increase in the numbers unemployed for a year or more is certainly extremely unwelcome , but the long-term unemployment level is about half what it was five years ago and long-term unemployment among 18 to 24-year-olds is also half that level . |
| 27 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 28 | So do they see this as an imposition or |
| 29 | His bus-load of senior schoolboys were all over Aurae Phiala by this time , gushing downhill towards the river like streams in spate , and no doubt he was free for a minute or two to breathe again and care about his own theories and idylls . |
| 30 | You wo n't be able to do much in the fields , it 'll be far too wet for a week or two . |