Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , take what occurs around the 29th or thereabouts as a definite sign or signal from the heavens that not only must life go on , but that it also has to get better and better . |
| 2 | Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far . |
| 3 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 4 | There is little point in reaching conclusions unless you do something better or differently as a result . |
| 5 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |
| 6 | They usually play to 100,000 or so at a time , so it should be fun . |
| 7 | Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment . |
| 8 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 9 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 10 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 11 | At only $1 billion or so for a 50% stake , the price strikes some industry observers as a steal . |
| 12 | You have to be fine-tuned and the notion of writing drunk or even with a hangover is not on , because you need every sense and more . |
| 13 | The more unkind observers have already wondered whether it looks rather two-faced or even like a pair of out of shape knickers . |
| 14 | Egg rolling — see whose egg goes fastest or furthest down a smooth slope . |