Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] or [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 4 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 5 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Manson & Co. guitars are n't as cheap as Japanese imports but what you 're getting is one of the classiest handmade acoustics in Britain , fully customised to your requirements with extra inlays or even a pickup , and left-handers do n't cost a bean extra . |
| 9 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 10 | do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la |
| 11 | Whether there is upregulation of the genes that produce these antigens or merely a change in expression on the cell surface has not been investigated : in situ hybridisation should provide an answer to this question . |
| 12 | Well if if you add to those two factors , erm isolation and and loneliness , erm then the consequences can vary I mean certainly there were large numbers or quite a few elderly people up in the flats , who who survived who survived very poorly really . |
| 13 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 14 | Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this . |
| 15 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 16 | Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But in this very satisfaction lies the difficulty that for twenty years or more a good deal of self-esteem and affirmation has depended upon the parenting role . |
| 23 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 24 | Persons to whom it is not convenient to pay a full price , instead of the inside , sit on the top of the coach , without any seats or even a rail . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 27 | We should also address issues such as our abort fees or minimum costs or indeed a retainer . |
| 28 | The answer is that during the past 200 years or more a dynamic change has taken place . |
| 29 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 30 | You 've bought your new home , and no doubt that has meant new carpets or new curtains or maybe a new fitted kitchen because you want your home to be comfortable . |