Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 2 | It is the question everybody asks and it is difficult to give a satisfactory answer because everybody wants a definite or even a sensational one . |
| 3 | Unlike the other more senior competitors for the approval of the leader , she did not treat him as a fellow professional or even a well-informed client . |
| 4 | Among those aged 85 or more a similar proportion of those with and without living siblings had been admitted to a home at some stage but among those aged 75 — 84 more of those without any such relatives had been admitted : 30 per cent compared with 17 per cent . |
| 5 | From each standard the rays of twenty powerful lamps were thrown across the pitch at different angles , and as they intersected and spread they did not leave a dark or even a dull patch … |
| 6 | Keeping Sheridan on a straight or even a wavy line definitely came into the category of crisis control . |
| 7 | ‘ For management data it 's no good having a five , six or even a 20 dimensional database , ’ he says , ‘ because that 's not the way data works . |
| 8 | General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore ! |
| 9 | Therefore the dojo is treated with great reverence and respect , whether it is a room within a sports complex or simply a disused garage . |
| 10 | The point is however that Olympia was not a classic nude or even a high-class courtisane , but as Clark notes , a ‘ fille publique ’ , ‘ a faubourienne ’ . |
| 11 | It is , therefore , sometimes a little difficult to keep up-to-date , for although what is found may not be in the area being researched by the local historian concerned , it may , nonetheless , have a bearing , for the style of housing suggested for one place may be typical of that formerly existing in another , ten or even a hundred miles away . |
| 12 | At a level above that is assembly language whose commands normally translate into a set , of ten or perhaps a hundred , machine language commands . |
| 13 | Very or only a little ? ’ |
| 14 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 15 | In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary . |
| 16 | For a mercury crisis is not an immediate or indeed a long term worry . |
| 17 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 18 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
| 19 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 20 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 21 | Erm , I 'll probably have er two or perhaps a three seater sofa and for the rest fire side chairs . |
| 22 | Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation . |
| 23 | Stay there for a few minutes and you will begin to experience one of several sensations : it may be a slight breeze , or perhaps a tingling sensation , heat ( especially in the palms ) , static or even a magnetic pull . |
| 24 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |
| 25 | Whatever he said was always ignored : for years , even when in health , he had been used by his wife as a ventriloquist 's dummy , in support of an endless succession of mutually contradictory banalities , and whenever he had risked an original or even a conciliatory remark he would be firmly rebuffed . |
| 26 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 27 | For instance , family centres may take many forms , from a primary developmental role to an institutional or even a residual one , providing supplementary care , teaching parents better parenting , monitoring children 's progress and providing increased professional surveillance of vulnerable and disadvantaged families . |
| 28 | This therefore implies a sort of traumatic stratigraphy with major events , such as transgressions , virtually synchronous on a continent-wide or even a world-wide scale . |