Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven . |
| 2 | By any normal standards , the Al Fayed brothers had been rich men for perhaps a decade or even two . |
| 3 | It is a surprising answer , and we have known and understood it for only a century or so . |
| 4 | She hesitated for only a second or two , then without looking around , she ripped the ties from the front flaps and stepped outside . |
| 5 | Near its edge the dark , wet sand was a sheen on which footsteps kept their shape for only a minute or two . |
| 6 | You could then include a breeding pond ( occupied for only a fortnight or so each year ) . |
| 7 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 8 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
| 9 | We delayed it for only a moment or two , remembering the fluffy chick waiting below for its supper of regurgitated fish . |
| 10 | Even Mira is within range for only a month or two out of its total period of 331 days ; at minimum it sinks to magnitude 10 , so that it is lost even with a small telescope . |
| 11 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 12 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 13 | Although you may drop a dress size or see the scales tipping in your favour after only a week or two , all too often the results are short-lived . |
| 14 | After only an hour or so , Davies released the ex-owner as an intruder . |
| 15 | It was there for just a second or two , then it moved away quickly . |
| 16 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
| 17 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |
| 18 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 19 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 20 | A method which you may prefer is to pre-record your commentary section-by-section onto a sound tape ; this tape is not cued , and the sections follow each other with gaps of only a second or so between them . |
| 21 | It may be that at a low level of a graduated test scheme teachers may wish to acknowledge a pupil 's recognition of only an equilateral or isosceles triangle as a triangle . |
| 22 | and then somebody else has it , so it 's sort of once a month or something it turns up and they have sort of an extensive thing on it , I think that 's the way it works . |
| 23 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 24 | They had a passion for clothes , and every particular of how a dress or coat was made was studied in the most minute detail . |
| 25 | Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body . |
| 26 | The castle surrendered on 16 June , but by that date Moore had sickened and died , of either a pleurisy or a fever . |
| 27 | Fleas can be treated by means of either a powder or spray , or by giving your dog a medicated bath . |
| 28 | Their legs would need to be proportionately stronger , more like a reptile 's or a mammal 's , in which case they would need to have the metabolism of either a reptile or a mammal . |
| 29 | He had a choice of either a club or 15s. 0d. ; he chose the latter ! |
| 30 | A further example is the registration of either a notice or a caution to give priority to a charge and bridge the gap between its creation and registration . |