Example sentences of "[adv] or [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 2 | This difference remains however constantly or quickly a judgement ensues on what the advocates of the theory call a ‘ sensation ’ or ‘ impression , . |
| 3 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |
| 4 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 5 | Sooner or later a woman will show her true nature . |
| 6 | Having flagged the issue and fired the interest of the minister , the Bank duo returned to the cooler , more workman-like atmosphere of life in Nairobi almost certain that sooner or later a project would go to the Bank board , and that it would almost certainly be approved . |
| 7 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 8 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 9 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 10 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 12 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 13 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 14 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 15 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 16 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 17 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 18 | And he actually treated me like a , more or less a son , the site agent , and he made sure er I gradually developed my muscles . |
| 19 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 20 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 21 | Disclose directors ' interests in the following transactions : loans , quasi-loans , credit transactions and indirect arrangements agreement to enter into such transactions any other transactions or arrangements in which a director had directly or indirectly a material interest . |
| 22 | That view is reinforced by the Newsons , who say : ‘ The measures that stand out as the most predictive of criminal record before 20 years are having been smacked or beaten once or more a week at 11 , and having a mother with a high commitment to formal physical punishment at that age . ’ |
| 23 | We go once or twice a day now . |
| 24 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 25 | If there is no other system of air-conditioning , and the window can not be open all the time because of draughts or security , it should at least be opened once or twice a day for a spell . |
| 26 | Important : This relaxation exercise is most beneficial if practised once or twice a day on an empty stomach , or at least an hour after eating . |
| 27 | The cream need only be lightly massaged with the finger tips either once or twice a day and the manufacturers stress that you do not have to knead or use a special applicator . |
| 28 | The fertilized egg , now known as a zygote , continues to move along the Fallopian tube towards the uterus , and while it does so , divides once or twice a day . |
| 29 | He bullied and punished me , not two or three times a week , not once or twice a day , but all the time . |
| 30 | Weaver and Steiner found that 85% of 1 to 4 year old children passed stools once or twice a day , and 96% did so three times daily to once every other day . |