Example sentences of "or [adv] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put in a year , or rather five races , with Andy Granatelli 's STP team — Granatelli being a lifelong friend and Mario 's fellow opera buff , Aida , Rigoletto , the kind of music Mario says fits his ear — but the heavy clumsy March 701 of those days was no great success , despite a remarkable win in Spain . |
| 2 | Now our company policy is a vehicle up to the or below five years and sixty thousand miles , we agree on manufacturer 's servicing . |
| 3 | We must ensure that hospitals have well thought out discharge plans for every individual , whether he or she has been in hospital for five years or just five days , and that follow-up and after-care services are available for a lifetime if necessary . |
| 4 | Gary Chapman says that at some tracks they can hit 120 miles an hour … as far as cost goes you can spend fifty thousand … or just five hundred … |
| 5 | The problem is increased when considering the rationes of a Court of Appeal decision where three ( or possibly five ) judgments are given ; in the House of Lords five ( or possibly seven ) speeches are given . |
| 6 | The relay satellites , each of which can relay 300 million bits of information , or about five million words , per second , were needed to handle the massive flow of data collected and immediately beamed down by Spacelab 's instruments . |
| 7 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 8 | Putting in these values gives us a strength of about 3 x 10 4 MN/m 2 or about five million pounds per square inch . |
| 9 | or about five minutes earlier on the motorway and they drove over a part of the barrier , and they got a blow out did n't they ? |
| 10 | It is believed to be probably caused by an organic abnormality of the brain dating from before or even after birth ; it can occur up to three or even five years of age . |
| 11 | Or even five ? |
| 12 | For various reasons , some horses are not broken until they are four or even five years old . |
| 13 | Some otherwise generous companies offer even senior directors no more than three months ' notice ; at the other end of the scale , notice periods of three or even five years are by no means rare . |
| 14 | 5 ‘ Increasingly children are starting school at six or even five years of age , so that they finish primary school when they are too young to become responsible young workers and citizens . |
| 15 | A young doe can , in fact , conceive her first litter at only four months , while a doe of breeding maturity in February can be expected to produce four or even five litters before the autumn . |
| 16 | ‘ We ca n't afford to have all the scientific journals in our library that we had 10 or even five years ago , ’ says Sir Eric . |
| 17 | I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) that an examination of other elected assemblies which can be paralleled to ours in Europe , America or elsewhere shows that we in the British House of Commons spend three , four or even five times longer debating legislation . |
| 18 | The Greeks had built predominantly in only one or two storeys ; the Romans built up to four or even five , and the arched type of construction was more suitable for this type of work . |
| 19 | In a big case ( perhaps three , four or even five years old ) the rates may have increased very substantially between the issue of the writ and the date of trial ; and that makes an enormous difference to quantum . |
| 20 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |