Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let me outline the case , or rather the two cases , to you all . |
| 2 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 3 | Or perhaps the two old dears together . |
| 4 | Those are the more or less the five variations on a theme . |
| 5 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |
| 6 | WHETHER or not the two Germanies are coming together too quickly , their cars certainly are . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A company spokesman was not able to say whether or not the two were connected . |
| 9 | And we are left with the problem of deciding whether or not the two Elizabeths baptised on 17 October were really the same girl . |
| 10 | The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars . |
| 11 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 12 | The Crown Prosecution Service will decide whether or not the 30 runners should be prosecuted for trespassing on the railway . |
| 13 | ‘ This means that the number of women acquiring HIV per year can not be counted in the thousands , or even the hundreds of thousands , ’ he said . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But one is constantly struck by the author 's insatiable interest in the whole range of sculptural production , which refused to allow him to ignore the ceramics made under the influence of sculptors , the bronze door handles of the Hill Music Room or even the four terminal busts attached to the bookcase in the office of the Keeper of Antiquities . |
| 16 | Some people are ardent collectors of 20s , 30s and 50s furniture , or even the 40s utility pieces which are now enjoying a new vogue . |
| 17 | Manufacturing industries , too , were finding existing sites , many dating from the end of the last century or even the 1930s , becoming cramped . |
| 18 | Furthermore , 66 per cent of respondents were against the return or even the 1967 refugees . |
| 19 | Despite outward appearances and her protected upbringing , it seemed after all as if Anne were the more worldly-wise of the two — or even the three of them . |
| 20 | Now , for the 10 per cent of house-buyers who rely on this report , or even the 15 per cent who rely on a mini-survey , that 's fine as far as it goes — and I would not wish to discourage anyone from having a professional survey , or ever advise against one — however , all the surveyors I know would prefer knowledgeable clients who had carried out their own surveys first and could present their results to them for investigation and comment . |
| 21 | Or indeed the dozens we have seen like it . |
| 22 | By this time you should be ready to get home and start saving for your annual trip to the Edinburgh Festival , or maybe the 1992 Barcelona Olympics . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 25 | This means that only the 20,000 readers of British Standards Institution publications hear about them : so much for public comment . |
| 26 | But it seemed that only the one sentence had impinged on the queen-dowager 's consciousness . |
| 27 | Transport organizations predict that only the three main lines to London will be left and only those with a peak service . |
| 28 | I think that basically the 1980s were very rough and there were some very difficult times and in order to persuade the country to change , and impose change where it was resisted , and to carry it through , required both will and language characteristic of that challenge and Mrs Thatcher has been associated with that . ’ |
| 29 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 30 | Although only the 23 Nato and Warsaw Pact countries are directly involved in the arms negotiations , the treaty will come under the umbrella of all Helsinki Declaration countries . |