Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 31 | I had only once or twice done jobs for high SenFed aristocrats or , for royalty . |
| 32 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 33 | Perhaps it was only once or twice a month . |
| 34 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
| 35 | Only once or twice ? |
| 36 | ‘ My supplies come by van and that 's only once or twice a month . ’ |
| 37 | Well , I mean , only once or twice and then , |
| 38 | Few other diffusionists have been prepared to test their theories so directly or adventurously . |
| 39 | She , in fact did look at me rather palsely once or twice . |
| 40 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 41 | In the end all six planes came together more or less head-on . |
| 42 | The implication is that the dead king 's household had stayed together more or less formally and that these were the servants into whose care Edward V was given — an approach consonant with Gloucester 's apparent desire to preserve the status quo . |
| 43 | No , but you only like or |
| 44 | So here there are only more or less likely speculations . |
| 45 | Well , maybe ‘ blossom ’ is an exaggeration , but I told Gillian one or two of Oliver 's jokes , and we talked about being apprehensive over coming to the group , and then it emerged that she was half-French , and I had something to say about that , and the estate agent tried to bring in Germany but we were n't having any of it , and before I knew where I was I had half-turned my shoulder to exclude the other chap and was saying , ‘ Look , I know you 've only more or less just arrived , but you would n't like a spot of supper would you ? |
| 46 | Since the distance and aperture remain the same , only more or less of the same picture is being shown , just as if a camera in a museum or on an animation stand were moving in and out on an oil painting . |
| 47 | First , the tasks we carry out are not only more or less complex but they also become more complex as they separate out into discrete categories or types of complexity . |
| 48 | They also went shooting together once or twice , and they visited neighbours in the district . |
| 49 | Fourth , and in some places a reversal of the previous trend , the number of hedgerow trees had either declined less rapidly or even started to increase ( apart from major losses due to Dutch Elm disease as in Warwickshire ) , and in particular the number of saplings had markedly increased . |
| 50 | Again there was a Black Sumatra and one chick on the ground , but this time there were nine others aloft , all more or less black . |
| 51 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 52 | Astonishingly , they all more or less agreed on broad policy . |
| 53 | They all more or less agreed above undercurrents of mutual ill-will that it was time to be hit by the brutish cold again . |
| 54 | By 1947–8 you were all more or less back in business — Furtwängler , Böhm , Knappertsbusch , and others . |
| 55 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 56 | In Yorkshire Gypsy Fairs by E Alan Jones , one elderly resident recalled ‘ deep trouble ’ between the villagers and the gypsies when they were all more or less drunk . |
| 57 | Derek Edwards , speaking after the Place of Safety orders were extended , said that although they had all more or less expected this to happen , it was another blow for the parents . |
| 58 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
| 59 | Knossos had seven or eight entrances , all different in design , all more or less inconspicuous . |
| 60 | . Well I think we 're all more or less there by now . |