Example sentences of "[num] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least the radio-set enabled one to tune into a variety of propaganda : covert listening ( in the basement ) to the BBC or other radio stations of ‘ allied ’ or neutral powers , albeit punished when discovered , was a modest gesture of ‘ resistance ’ by individuals and families who only joined the ‘ Resistance ’ , if at all , in 1943 or 1944 . |
| 2 | Is it possible that in 1943 or 1944 she would have told him , liberated Parisienne that she was , the details ? |
| 3 | The total of members ' quotas in the IMF thus reached 93,177,050,000 or about US$129,122 million . |
| 4 | The pope despatched two pallia in June 634 ( HE 11 , 18 ) , but the death of Eadwine in battle in Hatfield Chase against combined Welsh and Mercian forces , either in October 633 or more likely October 634 , and the subsequent collapse of the ecclesiastical community at York with the flight of Paulinus to Kent ( HE 11 , 20 ) ( see below , p. 83 ff. ) , terminated this phase in the history of the church of York and arrested its development as an archiepiscopal see for a hundred years . |
| 5 | When the British king of Gwynedd in north Wales , Cadwallon ap Cadfan , invaded Eadwine 's territory in 633 or 634 , Penda joined him and participated in the overthrow of Eadwine in battle at Hatfield Chase ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 6 | In 633 or 634 ( see above , pp. 67–8 and Appendix , Fig. 7.3 ) on 12 October Eadwine , king of the northern Angles , was defeated and slain in battle in Hatfield Chase by Cadwallon ap Cadfan , king of the Britons of Gwynedd , acting in concert with a Mercian force under Penda . |
| 7 | When Cadwallon finally slew Osric in the summer of 634 or 635 , the exact year depending on whether Eadwine fell in 633 or 634 ( see Appendix , Fig. 7.1 ) , this should have been his signal to withdraw . |
| 8 | The ‘ new ’ Cold War of 1979–85 had no war crises equivalent to Berlin in 1948 or Cuba in 1962 which pitted the Superpowers directly against one another . |
| 9 | He said that the car must be ready by 25th July 1948 or he would refuse to take delivery after that date . |
| 10 | The 1987 General Household Survey found that 22% of people aged 60–69 , and 13% of those of 70 or older , were participating in voluntary work . |
| 11 | Instead Wolstenholme should have shot 70 or 71 but finished with a creditable par 72 , which included no fewer than five birdies . |
| 12 | Diesel offers immediate fuel saving of between 20 to 30 per cent , and when such developments as the direct-injected , two-stroke , supercharged diesel come along the savings could be higher , 70 or 80 per cent , which would reduce carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 13 | It is designed to accommodate the Exotox 60 , 70 or 75 and MiniGas multi-gas monitors which give protection against up to five gases ( oxygen , flammable and toxic gases ) and also monitor temperature and relative humidity . |
| 14 | It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A 3-step ‘ Quick Zoom ’ feature instantly sets the lens to 38 , 70 or 115mm . |
| 17 | The Sunday Times reported that ‘ the elderly will be encouraged to stay in paid employment until they are 70 or even older . ’ |
| 18 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | The theatre was estimated to measure about 10 feet in height , 15 in breadth , and 20 in length ( can these measurements be correct — classes sometimes numbered 70 or more students ? ) . |
| 20 | Disregarding the influx of early 1956 , which involved about 150 birds and appears quite exceptional , the average number seen per year rose from just over one to 14 between 1952 and 1962 , jumped to 70 or more per year between 1963 and 1972 , and rose to over 100 per year between 1973 and 1976 . |
| 21 | Cross bunkers are common 70 or so yards short of the greens , which are all well bunkered , some fiendishly . |
| 22 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 23 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 24 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 25 | Thus only about 70 or 80 of the brides were marrying skilled manual workers ; and 42 of these were in the printing trade , massively skewing the figures . |
| 26 | The Mortgage Indemnity Guarantee is a charge for which you should be prepared when you take out your loan if it is for more than 70 or 80 per cent of the property 's value . |
| 27 | Calculated at around four per cent of the loan over the 70 or 80 per cent , the money is used by the lender to take out an insurance policy which covers them if you should default . |
| 28 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 29 | Nor will 60 , 70 or even more hon. Members when they lose their seats , plus another 100 or so who will retire . |
| 30 | One can only assume that , if the Bill had been introduced 70 or 80 years ago , the House would have been rather more crowded than today . |