Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 Clark found that around half of his sample had travelled only 10 miles or less and only a tenth 40 miles or more , with women tending to move over shorter distances than men .
2 On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more .
3 ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man .
4 You will recall discussion on the addition of Clydesdale District Council as a partner in the initiative , although not as yet a member in terms of the Articles of Association of the Trust .
5 " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " .
6 If you use Imigran more than once or twice a month , you should also be using a continuous anti-migraine treatment and reserving Imigran for breakthrough migraines .
7 He had no visitors , although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence .
8 There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself .
9 Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing .
10 Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings .
11 If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself .
12 Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal .
13 By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased .
14 This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires .
15 Year to year there are variations ; summer may start two weeks late , or two weeks early , or tentatively … and once or twice a year the weather goes into a sulk for a few days and refuses to co-operate with us .
16 The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval .
17 This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ .
18 By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle .
19 The only people to phone were Joseph and Lily , and now and again a friend of Elaine 's from work .
20 The sounds of the party were faint here , and now and then a few bars of melody drifted toward us .
21 At this time of night the street was quiet : the occasional car , and now and then a group of rowdy youths asserting their masculinity like stags in rut .
22 Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion .
23 I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood .
24 Against walls , jars of oil , cheap wine , and black and red beer were stacked , and here and there a low table displayed jewellery .
25 The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one .
26 In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result .
27 It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog .
28 The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control .
29 If the result is never in any doubt , so that it is not ‘ the people ’ but always and only a section and that the same section of them which confers consent on government , then those who feel themselves permanently excluded will also feel no great obligations to the regime .
30 In the event , this official reformation was both rapid and radical , but up until just a few weeks before Henry 's death it had by no means been inevitable .
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