Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Er the only thing is that er it was the people on the workshop floor that were paid from it er rather than the er planning er personnel or indeed the drawing office .
2 Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself !
3 Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation .
4 If your employee was employed by you for a continuous period of at least two calendar years into the qualifying week and normally worked 16 hours or more a week , she is eligible for the higher rate of SMP .
5 Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit .
6 Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays .
7 At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week .
8 However , ‘ mega-mechanization ’ , short-term financial calculations discounting the sustention of biological and soil factors ( and thus favouring plantations ) , inadequate provision for silvicultural programmes or even the removal of the successful forests themselves have made the systems seem not to be viable .
9 These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists .
10 However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again .
11 This may actually be seen to better advantage in conversion to offices or even a house .
12 It will no doubt suit a good top coat , or perhaps cushion covers or possibly a bed cover .
13 Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon .
14 So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’
15 Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this .
16 However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series .
17 We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training .
18 • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every
19 Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead .
20 And second , the attitudes and temperament of any family with whom the child is already living and where either the parents have already become the psychological parents or else the intention is that they should become so .
21 The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income .
22 Callers of any sort were scarce at Four Winds , mostly people who came asking for directions or even a glass of water when the weather was hot .
23 Now he was talking in the context of er of of a , er but it is something that I think the government does need to look at because given the nature of multi-national companies or even the nature of public companies and private companies in this country where there is a public interest , not just in efficiency but also in probity .
24 At the other extreme , very even updating patterns would mean that most blocks or even every block required to be read and such a pattern would therefore make skip-sequential processing pointless .
25 These are usually imitation lead or stone ornaments depicting the faces of gnomes , cherubs or sometimes the head of a lion , and are flat on one side to enable them to be fixed to a wall .
26 The Lee-Enfield had a magazine which held 10 rounds and rapid-action bolt which turned down ; this gave the rifleman a rate of fire of 15 aimed rounds or more a minute .
27 Persons to whom it is not convenient to pay a full price , instead of the inside , sit on the top of the coach , without any seats or even a rail .
28 If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier .
29 The dry slope was dotted with rabbits — some nibbling at the thin grass near their holes , others pushing farther down to look for dandelions or perhaps a cowslip that the rest had missed .
30 do n't matter , it just feels clean , I 've had it short and shaped , have a good shape on it and do you know the next time you have it cut I do n't know you want looking at , now the next time you go , go to the Darrow in Milford yeah because you 're in problems and they know you need it because he 'll give you a good shape on it and then you have it shaped once a month or once every three weeks or once a fortnight and keep it looking nice that way and it 's four pounds , four ninety nine , four ninety , four seventy five yeah but just keep it nice and shaped and it wo n't look any different , there ai n't nothing wrong with it mm mm mm no no right , right , right tra la
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