Example sentences of "[num] or a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multiplied by sixty or a power of sixty . |
| 2 | But it remains to be seen whether NFC is a throw-back to the 1970s or a model for the 1990s . |
| 3 | Equally , if the access road is a cul-de-sac the design guide may provide for a maximum permissible length of up to , say , 300 m or a limit on the number of dwellings using the road . |
| 4 | I or a doctor of equivalent rank was present at every stage in the sequence . |
| 5 | The electronic information explosion knows no frontiers ; we may soon be enveloped in a world-encompassing atmosphere of information messages and ‘ noise ’ of a variety and density not known before , able to plug in to one or a multiplicity of channels and capture information of a wide diversity of nature and origin , much of it junk . |
| 6 | The role of providers , ie directly managed units , self-governing hospitals and private suppliers , is stated to be the delivery of ‘ contracted services within quality and quantity specification to one or a number of clients in return for agreed levels of income ’ ( DoH , 1989f ) . |
| 7 | Furthermore , if we take seriously Black 's claim that his specimen metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ serves at once to render man wolf-like and to humanize wolves , a reversible metaphor could be imagined at the level of a word , a sentence , or a discourse in which each term was engaged in a metaphoric interaction with one or a number of other terms , organizing them , structuring them and in turn being structured by them . |
| 8 | Such models attempt to clarify the relationships between the variables that influence the buying situation , and may assist the marketer to predict the outcome of change in any one or a number of purchase variables . |
| 9 | By keying in one or a number of search terms e.g. subject keywords , author or format , the user can broaden or narrow a search without any predesigned classification structure . |
| 10 | Found in savanna woodland and grassland wherever there is such terrain throughout subsaharan Africa , the warthog is one of the classic wild pigs , an animal whose distinctive countenance seems to stick in the mind of anyone who 's ever seen one or a picture of one . |
| 11 | A third of respondents , however , blamed damage on their own clumsiness , and nine in ten admitted having spilled at least one or a combination of the following on themselves ; coffee , tea , correction fluid , tea , copier toner , water , cold drinks and glue . |
| 12 | These are related to any one or a combination of eustatic changes in sea level , local changes in sediment input , and changes in basin subsidence . |
| 13 | The designer can remove the violation by one or a combination of three courses of action . |
| 14 | Practically all building materials are affected by one or a combination of the following : extremes of temperature dampness method of stacking or storing accidental or wilful damage avoidable or unavoidable wastage Sometimes deterioration may be difficult to detect and , perhaps even more important , actual realisable value may be negligible and in some cases negative , in that costs will be incurred in carting away . |
| 15 | You can get a pension if you are a man of 65 or a woman of 60 , provided you have paid ( or been credited with ) sufficient national insurance contributions . |
| 16 | But no , Jessie had to be something else ; Jessie had to be sent to the Secretarial School : no getting her hands sticky from the toffee hammer , breaking up the slabs in the long tins ; no weighing out a ha'p'orth of hundreds and thousands or a penn'orth of sugar baccy ; and as for the weighing out of the real baccy , of hard cut or shag or even serving the best cigars , oh no , oh no , her father was having Jessie do nothing like that . |
| 17 | Where a mortgagee claims possession a person who has registered a land charge , notice or caution under s 2(7) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1967 or a notice under s 2(8) of the Matrimonial Homes Act 1983 must be served with a copy of the particulars of claim ( Ord 6 , r 5(1A) ) . |