Example sentences of "[adj] or [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some subjects are painful , sensational , controversial or just a bit too exciting . |
| 2 | plastic ones which were close to the ceiling , can you , could you give me a bit more of a description of that or perhaps a manufacturer 's name ? |
| 3 | Forty pence out of a pound what would that , roughly is it about half or about a quarter or what ? |
| 4 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 5 | Since oestrogen is a potent inhibitor of bone resorption , we investigated changes in calcium metabolism in women with hot flushes. 37 postmenopausal women ( at least 9 months after the last menstrual period ) were divided into groups according to the frequency of hot flushes over 4 weeks : ( A ) subjects without flushes ( 18 ) , and ( B ) with less than 2 ( 7 ) , ( C ) 3–9 ( 6 ) , and ( D ) 10 or more a day ( 6 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Is it for real or just a fantasy ? |
| 7 | For a moment Ruth wondered if he were real or just a ghost . |
| 8 | From now on , music could be no more than tone-painting or else a stimulant for jaded nerves , where the words hardly mattered ( as was already the case in Euripidean lyrics ) . |
| 9 | depending on whether we take the " " mayden " " as a vocative ( i.e. " girl , I love no one more than thee " ) or as the object of the lost verb of line 14 , whereby the -clause becomes a restrictive relative clause ( " I love no maiden more than you … " [ but I might love some just as much or only a bit less ] ) . |
| 10 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 11 | Often , of course , these were different forms of the same general relations , though the latter can not be reduced to the former , in all or even a majority of cases . |
| 12 | It would be foolish , however , to argue that the problems created by the increasing urban demand for recreation in the countryside are entirely illusory or simply a matter of arbitrary taste : they clearly are not . |
| 13 | It was , however , nothing so dramatic or pompous-merely a statement revealing that at that time the question of my succession to Macmillan had simply not crossed my mind . |
| 14 | REPEAT TIME is used to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run repeatedly at given time intervals , for example nightly or once a week . |
| 15 | I could not imagine a German , Italian or even a Frenchman being so patient in such a discussion . |
| 16 | You do not have to be a separatist or even a lesbian to enjoy the benefits of graduated separatism . |
| 17 | ‘ This friction between her and your mother — was it really important or just a manifestation of teenage rebellion ? ’ |
| 18 | Now that was er er more or less a favour to me . |
| 19 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 20 | They never come round on their own , and you you see them in the daytime , you know probably one or twice a week . |
| 21 | The first difficulty is , as we have seen , that the term ‘ child abuse ’ covers a range of behaviours and problems , so that a search for a single or even a cluster of ‘ causes ’ is likely to be in vain . |
| 22 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 23 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 24 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 25 | Species of Inga ( Leguminosae ) with them on their rachis have herbivore damage reduced by a third or even a half . |
| 26 | Dario Carella was n't a relative or even a friend . |
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