Example sentences of "or [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Roger is now settled at Birmingham University , or rather at the ‘ University of Central England ’ and seems rather overcome by the amount of work expected of him , but has otherwise fallen on his feet . |
| 4 | Blackburn will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season , especially with the chequebook . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I think they will be there or thereabouts at the end of the season . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She remarried more or less at the same time as I did . |
| 11 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 12 | The passage has virtually no narrative progression : indeed , it begins more or less at the end of the interview . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Those aged 2½years or less at the onset of hearing loss fared considerably less well than their older counterparts . |
| 15 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 16 | Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Hoyle suggested that this field 's lines of magnetic force manage to twist themselves up every 11 years because of the Sun 's rapid rotation ( once every 34 days or so at the Sun 's equator ) . |
| 21 | Ockleton described a sweeping circuit of the room , missing all the many obstacles in his path without apparently noticing them , and finished by the window , where he peered out for a full minute or so at the view it commanded of a blank gable-end and half the dome of the Radcliffe Camera . |
| 22 | CONSERVATION Volunteers , which has its training centre at Dendron Lodge in Bangor 's Clandeboye Estate , is running a series of courses over the next month or so at the Lodge . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Heike Ruschmeyer and Jürgen Brodwolf are concerned with people approaching or already at the end of their physical existence , while Gerhard Altenbourg explores the landscape of the psyche . |
| 25 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 26 | It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town . |
| 27 | Multiple ulcers ( two or more at the time of diagnosis ) ; |
| 28 | This conclusion should not be seen to reflect callous indifference to individuals who have suffered miserably or fatally at the hands of persons committing ‘ conventional ’ crimes ; their agony is real and should never be ignored . |
| 29 | The only confrontation in Duke Street , or later at the Diamond , was between police and civil rights marchers or their supporters . |
| 30 | Fades are well within the video repertoire of the average home movie maker , and they can be done either on the camcorder while the shots are being taken or later at the editing stage when they are being copied during assembly . |