Example sentences of "[n mass] or [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Income support is available for people of 18 yrs or over whose incomes are below a certain level and who are not working 16hrs or more a week . |
| 2 | He had advocated an addition of either a half of the agency mark-up , which would produce a figure of forty seven thousand seven hundred and eighty six pounds and thirty four pence or alternatively a factor of twenty five percent which would produce a figure of forty five thousand one hundred and eighty eight pounds and forty pence . |
| 3 | Savings , the agency thinks , could be $100m or more a year . |
| 4 | If you look for strips of young geraniums at the garden centre , you should be able to get F1 hybrids for around 60p or so a plant . |
| 5 | A solid object , whether it is a rock , a fish or even a plant stem distorts this field and the fish can immediately sense the change . |
| 6 | The sailors , expecting a large fish or perhaps a shark , slit open the paunch and discovered James Bartley : unconscious , his face , neck and hands bleached white by the gastric fluids , but still alive . |
| 7 | They may be wise as an owl , slippery as an eel or even a snake in the grass . |
| 8 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 9 | The rate is used to calculate the tax charge on beneficial loans to directors and employees earning £8,500 or more a year , including gross expense payments and the value of benefits in kind . |
| 10 | These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me , why do I have to pay my informants a quid or more a time while you have snouts who could buy and sell both of us and who rush to buy you drinks whenever you appear ? ’ |
| 12 | The company has only two attractive businesses now , the AS/400 at $14,000m or so a year , and the RS/6000 , at barely $2,000m — which means that in the rankings above , the truly viable computer businesses of IBM lie between Hewlett-Packard and DEC . |
| 13 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 14 | Currently , organically grown wheat fetches farmers about £70 or so a ton more than conventionally grown grain , the premium more than compensating for substantially lower yields . |
| 15 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 16 | An important consideration to bear in mind when planning any design is whether you want a single picture , a matching pair or even a set of three or four , because your decision will influence the way in which you create the picture . |
| 17 | For those earning £21,000 or more a year , nearly £300 a year extra . |
| 18 | For those earning £21,000 or more a year , that would mean nearly £300 a year extra . |