Example sentences of "[adj] or [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How specific or broad a range of wastes constitute a waste type is debatable . |
| 2 | The kind of dwelling to be had for 7s or 8s a week varies in several ways . |
| 3 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 4 | Forty or fifty a day , three gallons of beer , drop dead one of these days — " |
| 5 | Forty or fifty a week the Dynmouth woman 's paid . " |
| 6 | As few as 2 or 3 a year opt for this method of preserving the memory of a devoted pet . |
| 7 | Of all contemporary cricketers , there can surely be no more appropriate or eligible a subject . |
| 8 | Effective help is not always as easy or obvious a thing to give as we might like . |
| 9 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 10 | No matter how erm , simple or small a change you 're making , you 'll probably think oh , that 's bound to work , no need to test that , such a simple change . |
| 11 | Our provisional conclusion can be no more than that Rawls and others arguing for neutrality in similar ways fail to establish their case , and that sometimes they assume too quick or simple a connection between neutrality and personal autonomy . |
| 12 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 13 | Three or four a day . |
| 14 | The second consequence was to limit the number of executions by the early 1960s to no more than three or four a year , so bringing nearer the prospect of total abolition by the classic , if inglorious , means of English penal reform : diminution , disuse , abandonment . |
| 15 | Spectra-Physics of California is delivering 150 carbon dioxide lasers , each capable of delivering 1–2 kW , at a rate of three or four a month to a Japanese industrial equipment firm , Amada . |
| 16 | ‘ … the extent of the establishment is but barely sufficient for the exigencies of the County , and it can not be contended that it is on too large or extravagant a scale ; the number of patients constantly on the books of the Infirmary ; the high reputation which it has justly acquired under the excellent management of the medical and other officers belonging to it ; the strict economy which to the general satisfaction of the Governors has been observed in the ordinary expenditure of the House … call forcibly upon the County at large to hold out a protecting hand to save it from ruin which appears inevitably to have waited , if not averted by our timely interference . ’ |
| 17 | Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year . |
| 18 | According to this , we can best assess the intrinsic value of something if we ask how good or bad a thing it would be if it existed in complete isolation . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 20 | But it is important not to rush into too neat or speedy a conclusion about another person 's main and natural form of mental functioning . |
| 21 | One or two a bit odd . |
| 22 | A few of these difficult public-interest cases go , not to the disciplinary committee , but to the Joint Disciplinary Scheme : not more than about one or two a year , but each of them demanding a great investment of time and money . |
| 23 | I could see some of the other sprinters jogging around — Carl , Ben , Ray , Calvin — and gave one or two a wave . |
| 24 | ‘ If we sell one more player I might as well sell them all and forget the silver and take the gold — I 'm not going to continue to sell one or two a season . |
| 25 | One operator justifies the absence of a doctor by saying ‘ we get these cases nine or ten a night . |
| 26 | We have already noted that she would have started as a reading girl , at 4s or 5s a week , before learning the lay of the type case and eventually starting work setting type . |
| 27 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
| 28 | Think about it , is it twenty or thirty a day ? |
| 29 | 8. ‘ … are the only organizations that have been able to do what they do at all , even though it might seem that what they do is not that difficult or mysterious a thing ’ . |
| 30 | If you are self-employed or own a business you need to protect your livelihood with insurance . |