Example sentences of "or [adj] later " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did n't seem prepared to say anything that might appear embarrassing or gauche later on . |
| 2 | And if there is anything that you want to discuss with your adviser , positive or negative later , you can go back to your report , say well this is what should have happened , and can you explain what is happening ? |
| 3 | Although one can not believe that times were good for immigrant artists in the 1950s , a quantity of painting seems to belong to the period , though done a decade or more later . |
| 4 | Other accounts have her dying a week or more later . |
| 5 | Two centuries or more later , in the sixth century BC , the first Greek philosophers speculated , without invoking mythology , on how the world was generated . |
| 6 | Even so , that wave of philanthropically inspired work among boys and girls which began in the 1880s had exhausted itself a decade or more later , and despite the opening of new clubs and the formation of the Scouts , youth work no longer inspired the same missionary zeal . |
| 7 | Called for lunch , he kept answering , ‘ Yes , I 'm coming , ’ and often did n't put in an appearance until an hour or more later . |
| 8 | However , a year or more later I got a note from Colonel Leslie Glass saying that in a report received from an officer dropped behind the Japanese lines there occurred the statement , ‘ ’ I think I ought to add that I owe my life to a little booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese . ’ |
| 9 | The great silver decadrachm of Syracuse ( fig. 84 ) , commonly associated with the historically attested ‘ Demarateion ’ of 479 but now thought by many scholars to be a decade or more later , is a marvellous example . |
| 10 | But check that your 512Kb card has some free memory sockets so you can upgrade it to 1Mb or more later on . |
| 11 | The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later . |
| 12 | It is essential to provide some distinguishing feature so that the guest remembers , a year or more later , than the hotel merits a return visit . |
| 13 | A generation or more later , Baron Cederhielm , the Holstein envoy in Paris and chamberlain to the king of Sweden , was sent to the Châtelet prison at the demand of his creditors , while in 1772 the Hessian minister in the French capital was officially warned that his furniture could be seized and he himself refused a passport to leave the country if he failed to pay what he owed . |
| 14 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 15 | Back in Britain a year or two later , I was one of a panel collected to perform before a group of young Americans who were paying Richard Demarco , Edinburgh 's most flamboyant cultural entrepreneur , for the privilege of drinking the wisdom of the New Scottish Enlightenment at source . |
| 16 | A day or two later we were enlightened — Dagbladdet is the name of the daily paper . |
| 17 | The result was that every crucial move made inside the Cathedral by the bride and groom — like the placing of the ring on the Princess 's finger — was followed a second or two later by the most enormous cheer from outside . |
| 18 | A day or two later I had a free morning , in which I intended to follow a class in Spanish language . |
| 19 | A day or two later he resumed the courtesies by paying mischievous tribute to the new British drill which his dentist had used to cure him . |
| 20 | Economic pressures producing changes in family structure may , for example , influence the higher-order structure of society only a generation or two later . |
| 21 | She answered it , and a day or two later , received a reply bearing the postmark ‘ Caversham ’ . |
| 22 | When Florey came to the chair of pathology at Sheffield a year or two later , Paine mentioned the matter to him but aroused no obvious interest . |
| 23 | It was therefore with great irritation that I noticed a day or two later that they had all been moved back to the ‘ General Interest ’ section . |
| 24 | The two men said nothing at the time to their wives , but a day or two later , the question of an evening of cards cropped up . |
| 25 | A minute or two later he drove up in a battered English saloon car with a bumper and two door handles missing . |
| 26 | So had Sam , after several pints of beer , but a month or two later , sober , he had chickened out . |
| 27 | A year or two later I was best man at the Braden-Kelly wedding which was performed by Bernie 's father , the Rev. Dr. E.D. Braden at the Kerrisdale United Church of which he was minister . |
| 28 | According to Jackson , the editor must have disclosed Freeman 's name , ‘ for a day or two later appeared a raving letter from Freeman accusing the editor of breach of confidence , abusing Ruskin and all his works and scorning his offer of intimacy ’ . |
| 29 | Harriet took no notice of it but a minute or two later there was a tap at her door and a maid stood there with one of the portable receivers — there was no extension in Harriet 's room . |
| 30 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |