Example sentences of "[det] [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martindale is another valley which seems to have altered little for a century or more . |
| 2 | All these examples pre-suppose , without justification , that for a school or college partnership means work-experience . |
| 3 | See well , you could er I still went with the horse and cart down there on a Saturday , take the meat , still the same I done that for a year or two . |
| 4 | He 'll be doing that for a day or two , till I can take over my own wavelength completely . |
| 5 | ‘ Leave it like that for a day or two . ’ |
| 6 | That is a question I am afraid that is impossible to answer at this stage , that wo n't be known until he 's had a thorough investigation by the surgeons at the hospital who er probably wo n't be able to answer that for a day or two yet . |
| 7 | Was that for a couple or single ? |
| 8 | Just walk around with that for an hour or so . |
| 9 | Because I mean , that , it , it costs the earth anyway , that damn stuff , it really does , with it , and it 's a , well I , I did it on about eight hundred sheep so you know , my men are stuck in this for a day or two . |
| 10 | Continue this for a week or two , and compare the two records to see if there are any likely suspects . |
| 11 | I puzzled over this for a week or so , before a second whisper clarified the message . |
| 12 | She thought about this for a moment or two and then said : ‘ I see no harm in that . |
| 13 | It was more practicable to do this for a district or industry , since firm-by-firm bargaining was precluded for want of suitable union organisation to bring together all employees at the workplace . |
| 14 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 15 | So do they see this as an imposition or |
| 16 | Cover this with a sheet or towel . |
| 17 | Bodies wrapped in blankets , linen burial suits , a coffin of the best elm lined with lead , one covered with black cloth and decorated with white nails — indicative of a spinster — and another with a double or false lid . |
| 18 | I expect my own daughter will be like this in a year or two . |
| 19 | One may imagine the river cascading over this in a waterfall or a series of rapids ( Fig. 9. 1OA ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Even the recent drop begs the question if they can do all this in a month or two , why could n't they have done it before . ’ |
| 21 | A pregnant employee will be given this by a doctor or midwife . |
| 22 | with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against him or another by a person or |
| 23 | surpasses that of a cow or pig ; but it does not follow that the foetus has a stronger claim to life . |
| 24 | A second and much more general form of patronage was that of a court or powerful household in which there was no intrinsic organization of artists as part of the general social organization but in which , often very extensively , individual artists were retained , often with titles which represent the true cases of ‘ official recognition ’ . |
| 25 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 26 | The line and infill technique imparts to the work a certain quality not unlike that of a woodcut or sometimes even stained glass and the effect can be most attractive . |
| 27 | A married woman 's position before the law was approximately that of a child or an incompetent . |
| 28 | Eck 's reputation was that of a sophist or dialectician rather than a profound thinker but in his day he exercised tremendous influence . |
| 29 | Your attitude can be that of a winner or a loser . |
| 30 | It should have the same meaning for each person , whatever his contribution to the world , whether it be that of a labourer or that of the highly qualified expert in , for example , quantum mechanics or any other of those disciplines for the erudite which , to the laity border on unreality . |