Example sentences of "or [adv] the two " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me outline the case , or rather the two cases , to you all . |
| 2 | Or perhaps the two old dears together . |
| 3 | WHETHER or not the two Germanies are coming together too quickly , their cars certainly are . |
| 4 | Cardboard cut-outs of the two continents were made and fitted together , computer programmes written to devise the most perfect match between the two continents , similarities and the differences in the geology of corresponding areas studied ad nauseam , and even details of the animal life in each continent compared , but without reaching any firm conclusions on whether or not the two continents had ever been united . |
| 5 | A company spokesman was not able to say whether or not the two were connected . |
| 6 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 7 | The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars . |
| 8 | In fact , when metals or ceramics are prepared in single-crystal form , even the common materials such as iron , aluminium , alumina and rock salt — to name only a few — are anisotropic and so not adequately described by a single modulus such as Young 's modulus or even the two moduli required for an isotropic material . |
| 9 | With the Atlantic Ocean floor spreading away in opposite directions from the ridge , Iceland is getting wider at a rate of about half a centimetre per year , so a lot of new material has to be added continuously in the zone of tension in the middle , or else the two halves would soon be completely separated . |