Example sentences of "or later [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thought that Jerusalem sooner or later would be an international city . |
| 2 | I thought that my conduct , dress , attitude were used as a measure of what the other young women of my family were or later would be allowed to do . |
| 3 | Like Angela she would not want a poor doctor , and sooner or later would tire of her play-acting and retire back to that world — he wondered why she had left it , and what she thought that she was doing here in the East End , so far from her family and friends . |
| 4 | To a plea from the military that the United States should engage in " positive , dynamic and timely action " before the Soviets acquired " atomic plenty " , Dulles replied that , short of preventive war which had already been ruled out by the administration , the Soviets were bound to develop a nuclear arsenal which sooner or later would threaten the United States with unacceptable levels of destruction . |
| 5 | So I mean sooner or later would have been had to do , do up you know ? |
| 6 | But no matter what the final total may be , the Ceausescu regime has crossed a line which sooner or later should prove fatal for it . |
| 7 | If a development economist can understand why people plant so much maize , or why they plant on 30 June , his work of persuading them to plant cotton , or to plant earlier or later should be more successful , if not simpler . |
| 8 | The current Building Regs are the 1985 edition : books published in 1986 or later should be reasonably accurate . |
| 9 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 10 | The member country that chooses to exercise its monetary autonomy and pursue a monetary policy independently of its partner union members , sooner or later will be forced to effect an exchange rate change . |