Example sentences of "a [num ord] or [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |
| 2 | and have a decent life to get a first or either a two one in economics you have got to read a very great deal , you 've got to be a reader , a student a taker of notes , a writer of essays and we said that is not you so within two |
| 3 | We had failed to discover a third or even fourth hole and still the water was rising . |
| 4 | Species of Inga ( Leguminosae ) with them on their rachis have herbivore damage reduced by a third or even a half . |
| 5 | Whereas an adult can fairly ‘ comfortably ’ lose a pint of blood , a child losing the same amount may be drained of as much as a third or even half of her total supply . |
| 6 | On bushes and standards , prune strong new stems to 4–6in , shorten weaker growths and remove very spindly tips on climbers ; shorten weak growth by half and stronger stems by a third or more according to desired height . |
| 7 | Seventy-four per cent of women who were married in 1900–9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more . |
| 8 | The increased number of pensioners in the top half of the income distribution is the result of pensioners ' average net incomes rising by a third or more in real terms because of the policies of the Government . |
| 9 | Presumably a twelfth or so of the population are Leos , and they are n't all self-opinionated , domineering , power-mad — ’ |
| 10 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 11 | But 1961 social class II fertility was almost as high as that of class III , while that of IV and V — semi-skilled and unskilled workers — had fallen by a tenth or more . |
| 12 | Fifty pence out of one pound fifty is that about a tenth or about a hundredth or about half or what , what sort of fraction ? |