Example sentences of "give or [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 32 | Rossini set the words of his theatre librettists happily and so , give or take a few personal quiddities , did the Italian stories , outline and the dictate the treatment , but he handed over the actual versification to Piave , Ghislanzoni , Boito and the rest . |
| 33 | Well you always know that you know when they say twelve foot six it is n't quite right , they give or take a few inches . |
| 34 | Cells in bottle-wrack will be more genetically uniform within plants t–an cells in splurge-weed ( give or take an occasional reverse-mutation ) . |
| 35 | Twenty minutes later , give or take an hour , four long-haired , flower-shirted men dribble on stage . |