Example sentences of "[noun sg] or at [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | HMIs had already expressed a view that there was a prima facie case for the proposal , and the Council agreed that it would mean setting up a music board or at least an exploratory committee — and the DES music panel had offered suggestions of possible members . |
| 2 | They seized the opportunity for independence or at least a new bargain with Moscow — regardless of whatever views might be held by the silent masses . |
| 3 | The pressures for independence or at least a greater measure of autonomy that emerged in the Baltic republics were the most serious of their kind that the Soviet leadership had to confront in the early Gorbachev years . |
| 4 | The occasion of Wulfhere 's intervention in Surrey is likely to have been the death of King Ecgberht , which appears to have been followed by an interregnum or at least a contested succession . |
| 5 | Such pressures can lead to lack of environmental awareness or at least an understandable questioning of whether spending time or money or both on improving classroom ecology justifies the effort involved . |
| 6 | The Crime and Punishment notebooks expend considerable effort trying to establish an overarching reason or at least an empirical scatter of factors , and failing . |
| 7 | A small dress : in a big print or at least a big colour . |
| 8 | I 'm incredibly lazy but I do think I 've found the right way or at least a better way than hers to live . |
| 9 | At the moment , you can get adaptors for computers to cope with some form of speech or at least a limited range of verbal instructions erm and in fact Apple computers and others have little packages which allow about thirty well-defined verbal instructions to , to go in . |
| 10 | Er this is just to show income from building societies during the seventy five to ninety period , and the yellow line shows a decline or at least a jiggly line , which just reflects interest rates , and the un unit trust income rising over that time is the orange line . |