Example sentences of "[num] or [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the dice roll is 2 or more the unit passes the test and may fight normally this turn . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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ninety five , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen months later , those brochure figures will inevitably be out of date in the sense of being inaccurate would n't they ? |
| 5 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 6 | The 1922 committee is almost certain to raise to 20 or more the number of MPs needed to sponsor a challenger in future . |