Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | When an idea starts , perhaps only a slogan or a headline will be produced , but in the end the writer is going to have to write all the words in the ad ( though most clients tend to write a few themselves , sometimes over the agency 's dead body ) . |
| 2 | Perhaps perhaps a pound or two of . |
| 3 | that the reference to the accounts could not be viewed accurately without viewing the statutory statement of business which filed only just a month or so back reveals a sixteen and a half billion surplus in the members premium trust fund up from twelve and a half billion at the end of proceeding year . |
| 4 | At the other extreme , a third have sex only once a fortnight or less often . |
| 5 | To approach them tell them how they feel about things rather than having to ring you up and make an appointment if only once a year or once every six months use a group . |
| 6 | Only 1 man in 10 drinks every day ; a third drink only once a week or less ; just 19% have an alcoholic intake which exceeds the level regarded as ‘ safe ’ by the medical establishment . |
| 7 | It is absolutely essential , therefore , that each plant carries a durable and legible identity label , perhaps also a code or indication as to the pruning degree and method . |
| 8 | So whenever a recession or squeeze begins , Derry is likely to feel it fist . |
| 9 | I think in some ways that particular example illustrates a characteristic of microcomputer systems in general , and that is that from a technological point of view what we 're talking about is an extremely sophisticated approach to the problem , but the objective is very clear ; that you come down to perhaps maybe a quarter or an eighth the amount of copper in the wiring harness . |
| 10 | I told him that 's not saying much — I 'm just not a junkie or an alcoholic or a prostitute . |
| 11 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 12 | Join us in just over a minute or a half for that and more . |
| 13 | Just why a partner or a member of the family is so opposed to certain changes is hard to fathom but since the Full Moon on the 14th cuts right across the home and career angles of your horoscope , you may have to turn your full attention to work matters for a while and leave property or domestic issues waiting on hold until towards end the of the month . |
| 14 | These have much smaller corallites usually only a millimetre or two across , and the septa typical of rugose corals are absent or inconspicuous . |
| 15 | Is that like just a bop or is it |
| 16 | But Dan he he cried like once a day or something like that . |
| 17 | Mankind as a whole , or much more probably a tribe or race more advanced than others , had reached the conclusion that some less harsh substitute for the laws of survival which produced the human body had to be found in order to bring about the necessary control . |
| 18 | ‘ It was impossible to do anything , as there was always either a baby or a machine attached to me . |
| 19 | She had glimpsed him afar only a moment or so ago . |
| 20 | It is still nearly always a daughter or daughter-in-law who becomes the carer . |
| 21 | Let us assume that within a certain time , probably around a year or so for most people , you will have achieved your ideal weight , a good , firm shape , and a reasonable level of physical fitness . |
| 22 | They took out large orders of tea and coffee on cardboard trays , and after wondering for a while if they were anything to do with the film business Lucy finally decided that every last one of them was probably either a builder or a shopfitter . |
| 23 | The veins are often only a metre or two wide . |
| 24 | In this way , the economic facts have preserved older mythology : the black woman is both a sexual object and a trustworthy employee ( no longer a domestic servant , but now perhaps a typist or tea-lady ) . |
| 25 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 26 | There is of course a fine line between ‘ direct support ’ and ‘ regular monitoring ’ but the main distinction is that people in the previous category were visited at least once a week to give support or help , whereas people in the ‘ monitoring only ’ category were visited about once a fortnight or once a month so that the development officer could ‘ see how things were going ’ . |
| 27 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 28 | To women , man is often either a god or a beast . |
| 29 | But those whom he had known longest remained close to him : he , Herbert Read , Bonamy Dobrée and Frank Morley would meet regularly once a fortnight or so , each in turn hosting the others at his club . |
| 30 | Plato makes Protagoras a proponent of democracy , and Socrates is his antagonist : Now when we meet in the Assembly , then if the State is faced with some building project , I observe that the architects are sent for and consulted about the proposed structures , and when it is a matter of shipbuilding , the naval designers , and so on with everything which the Assembly regards as a subject for learning and teaching But when it is something to do with the government of the country that is to be debated , the man who gets up to advise them may be a builder or equally well a blacksmith or a shoemaker , merchant or ship-owner , rich or poor , of good family or none . |