Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [num] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the temporary jobs concerned , nearly three quarters ( 70 per cent ) had been for six months or less ( Stern , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | If we do n't know where you are for twelve months or more we have to assume you have abandoned your child . |
| 3 | Most are for three months or less , right down to over-night or at call . |
| 4 | Right , if babies actually do n't walk normally until they 're between nine months or eighteen months to two years . |
| 5 | The new peso would be worth 10,000 australes or the equivalent of one US dollar , in line with " dollarization " . |
| 6 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 7 | Lets can be for 364 days or for two separate periods in winter and summer . |
| 8 | All patients presenting to the Westminster AIDS Unit with abdominal pain severe enough to require admission and with a life expectancy considered to be of three months or more are investigated in accordance with a previously described protocol . |
| 9 | Three of the news stories or feature articles should be of 350 words or more and one should give a pupils ' view of what the next Government 's education policies should be . |
| 10 | To be eligible , candidates should be aged 36 years or over and have worked in construction for a number of years at a senior level . |
| 11 | It will hover , and dependent on wind strength , the lines will be at 85 degrees or so to the ground , the kite stationary nearly overhead if it is a good performer . |
| 12 | Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again . |
| 13 | Similarly , in the survey of 174 problem drug users in Brighton ( 90 per cent of whom were opioid users ) , 57 per cent were aged 26 years or older , and just 17 per cent were aged between 15 and 20 years . |
| 14 | Yet , the modal age of the known Wirral user was 19 years : only 17 per cent were aged 26 years or older , and almost 40 per cent were aged 20 years or younger . |
| 15 | In 1991 , of 2312 new coeliac disease patients joining the Coeliac Society of the United Kingdom , 541 ( 21% ) were aged 60 years or over . |
| 16 | Yet , the modal age of the known Wirral user was 19 years : only 17 per cent were aged 26 years or older , and almost 40 per cent were aged 20 years or younger . |
| 17 | Between 1986 and 1991 , 18 ( 18% ) patients out of a total of 100 who underwent restorative proctocolectomy were aged 50 years or over ( median 55 years , range 50 to 66 years ) . |
| 18 | In 1988 the estimated population of the United Kingdom was 57.1 million ( CSO 1990 ) of whom 8.9 million , or 15 per cent of the total population , were aged 65 years or older . |
| 19 | For instance , of the estimated 2,100 regular opioid users in Camden and Islington in 1983 , about 70 per cent were aged 25 years or older , and only 5 per cent were aged between 16 and 19 years . |
| 20 | At present 38.2 per cent of the elderly population are aged over 75 and 6.5 per cent are aged 85 years or more . |
| 21 | ( Often refers to persons in the age group between puberty and young adulthood , that is about 14–17 years or some similar period in the teens ; the limits of which depend on the timing of puberty and adulthood in a particular population ) . |
| 22 | If the lease is for 21 years or less , the supply is of services and the tax point rules are broadly the same ( Reg 23 ) . |
| 23 | It increases from more than one in every 2,000 births where the mother is aged 20 years or less to one in 60 where the mother is over 45 years old . |
| 24 | The largest winter flocks are in Chichester Harbour , where the winter peak was of 3,000 birds or more in each winter until 1974/75 , and the highest count was of 4,900 birds on 10 March 1968 . |
| 25 | Scott and Johnson ( 1988 ) report that in 1980 8.5 per cent of the world 's population was aged 60 years or over ; by 2025 this is expected , if current trends persist , to increase to 13.7 per cent . |