Example sentences of "or [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voices have been heard as far as the race track or right at the other end of the town , depending on which way the wind is blowing . |
| 2 | Perhaps once in a film , for a special moment , I might show the whole orchestra , or perhaps at the very end , with the lights down . |
| 3 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 4 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 5 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 6 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 7 | She remarried more or less at the same time as I did . |
| 8 | If overt collusion is not permitted , then firms may be able to replicate its effect via tacit collusion ( Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 ) , which may take the form of ‘ conscious parallelism ’ with firms making identical price changes more or less at the same time . |
| 9 | Slow build up or in at the deep end ? |
| 10 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 11 | There were many cases where Bloomsbury House was involved not at all , or only at the last moment when it was generally too late to offer any constructive help . |
| 12 | The effects on the immune system and on hormones , including the sex hormones , are further complicated by the effects on general care of the body , resulting in malnutrition or obesity ( or both at the same time ) , inadequate bodily hygiene and poor physical fitness . |
| 13 | Cut out overtime today — or tomorrow at the latest . |
| 14 | Other people , who are perhaps close to , or even at the right weight , are still not necessarily eating well . |
| 15 | ‘ I am a partisan of the idea of two inter-governmental conferences , one dealing with economic and monetary union and related institutional reform by the end of 1991 , and another which deals with European political union , one or two years later or even at the same time , ’ Mr Delors told MEPs in Strasbourg yesterday . |
| 16 | I refer , for example , to the Welsh health common services authority which , under the leadership of Brigadier Peter Crawley , decided that it would locate in the bay rather than at Merthyr Tydfil or some other place along the A470 — or even at the refurbished BBC studios building at Gabalfa , which is where we all thought that authority would go . |
| 17 | You can contact me at St. Luke 's at Ely or here at the Old Rectory . |
| 18 | Most country and metropolitan district councils in England and Wales hold definitive maps , and you can ask to see them at council offices or sometimes at the public library . |
| 19 | Sometimes , in the middle of a flow , or else at the small mouths or boccas from which the flows emerge , gas venting from the lava flings small glowing gobbets of it short distances up into the air . |