Example sentences of "[num] or [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 2 | If the dice roll is 2 or more the unit passes the test and may fight normally this turn . |
| 3 | Since oestrogen is a potent inhibitor of bone resorption , we investigated changes in calcium metabolism in women with hot flushes. 37 postmenopausal women ( at least 9 months after the last menstrual period ) were divided into groups according to the frequency of hot flushes over 4 weeks : ( A ) subjects without flushes ( 18 ) , and ( B ) with less than 2 ( 7 ) , ( C ) 3–9 ( 6 ) , and ( D ) 10 or more a day ( 6 ) . |
| 4 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 5 | First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |
| 6 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
| 7 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 8 | thank you and you would accept would n't you , that if we have a brochure , let us say printed for next January , January nineteen ninety four alright , and I came along as a retired person in the Spring of nineteen ninety five or indeed the Summer of nineteen ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 9 | Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting . |
| 10 | They never come round on their own , and you you see them in the daytime , you know probably one or twice a week . |
| 11 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 12 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 13 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 14 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 15 | The 1922 committee is almost certain to raise to 20 or more the number of MPs needed to sponsor a challenger in future . |