Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | She announced , to my dismay , that she was coming to Salamanca for a week or so . |
| 2 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 3 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 4 | He stopped off at Dingwall for a sketch or two and rejoined the train in Inverness . |
| 5 | In Britain and the United States judges are selected from lawyers , usually only after many years in practice , in Britain as an advocate , and in the United States as an advocate or in a legal post within the government . |
| 6 | They 're going away Saturday for a week or something . |
| 7 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 8 | The BMR of a man or woman is dependent on weight , height , fitness and body composition . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll call the press and get the TV cameras out to Monument Hill in an hour or so , ’ said Ray Shepherd . |
| 10 | I mean I could do I think they 're fascinating and important — but I would prefer instead actually to talk about Darwinism Darwin as a biologist , rather than Darwin as a philosopher or as a influencer of morals and religious beliefs and so on . |
| 11 | She says she 's to be in Leningrad for a day or two — she 's on location at Lake Baikal — to meet Mrs Reagan on her flying visit to the Hermitage . |
| 12 | Harry 's original intention had been to approach Cornelius via a secretary or administrator . |
| 13 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 14 | The Prime Minister goes to Maastricht without a mandate or an agenda . |
| 15 | ‘ And , for your information , at the moment there is n't anyone who would mind if I flew out to Sydney for a month or two . |
| 16 | For sale through Knight Frank & Rutley as a whole or in six lots , the asking price is £2.3 million . |
| 17 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 18 | While comments ( see also p 25 ) from the Big Six vary on details , most of them express fundamental doubts about either the ED as a whole or important points in it . |
| 19 | Never in the history of recorded figures have a Labour Government tolerated unemployment on this scale , whether in the United Kingdom as a whole or in Wales , Scotland or anywhere else . |
| 20 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 21 | It became a pattern to work in Paris after a season or two in England but if a replacement was urgently needed , any dancer who caught her attention was likely to be shipped abroad . |
| 22 | Students have an opportunity to study the language of an Asian country , and to undertake a period of work experience in the UK with a firm or other organization currently involved in trade with the Far East . |
| 23 | So it 's Elizabeth and Cath Is Catherine with a K or a C |
| 24 | Craddock in a year or two would be retiring and he would need a replacement . |
| 25 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 26 | and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 27 | The question of law for the opinion of the High Court stated by the Board of Review was whether , on the facts agreed and proved , the relevant profits for the years of assessment in question did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong . |
| 28 | HAVE YOU EVER DRUNK A PINT OF Guinness in a pub or club and been disappointed by its quality ? |
| 29 | So we just had to pop down to the Castle in Chiddingstone for a pint or two . |
| 30 | If you are looking for a picture book on Nepal for a present or a memento of a trip then this is certainly as good as , if not better than , many of its rivals . |