Example sentences of "[conj] even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Education , on the other hand , is slow to change , discernible change being measurable in years , or even decades . |
| 2 | One trip on acid can lead to flashbacks years or even decades later . |
| 3 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 4 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 5 | Although the physico-chemical changes caused by the ionization of the atoms of living matter occur in a fraction of a second , the processes whereby these changes eventually lead to such changes in living matter as cell death , malignant tumours ( cancer ) , and genetic mutations may take hours , months , or even decades ( Coggle , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Many husbands took responsibility for saving for such major items of expenditure as furniture or even boots out of the money they kept back for themselves . |
| 7 | Tiles for terracing , backgrounds or even substrate |
| 8 | Fossil owls are known from the Eocene , and some living genera have been identified in Miocene or even Oligocene deposits ( Brodkorb , 1971 ; Walker , in Burton , 1973 ) . |
| 9 | They can be grown in a large number of different ways but are typically one or two microns thick though they may be millimetres or even centimetres long . |
| 10 | Frederica 's recall of things seen was very much less lucid and automatic than those of Stephanie or even Marcus . |
| 11 | In this context , it makes no sense to speak of an ‘ industry ’ like steel or automobiles or televisions or even banking . |
| 12 | Well before the cataclysm of 1914 , however , it was clear that the narrow boundaries of the " old diplomacy " as Richelieu , Metternich or even Bismarck had known it , had been permanently expanded . |
| 13 | Whilst recognising that the worship of a small , dispirited congregation is of importance to God , it does not believe that we can acquiesce in despair or even discouragement . |
| 14 | A given species or even genus tends to specialize in that at the same time in the same area , the same plant species is exploited , and this takes a great toll of water-dispersed seeds such as rubber . |
| 15 | When the ‘ victim ’ is , say , a government agency such as the Inland Revenue ( UK ) or Medicare ( US ) , or another vast transnational organization , or when it is millions of individuals deprived of trivial amounts of property , or when whole countries or even continents are ‘ victimized ’ as in the case of bribery and corruption of Third World governments or legal officials , or the exportation of products whose consumption is only really safe in a western cultural environment ( Chetley 1979 ) , then it is possible for the corporate official to convince himself that there is no real person suffering , and therefore there is no real criminal victim . |
| 16 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 17 | Yeah or even grrrrrrr |
| 18 | Drink , a quarrel or even illness would always come second with her . |
| 19 | Some personnel directors speculate that young male managers have problems relating to older women , who may remind them of their wives or even mothers . |
| 20 | One advantage of that approach would be to direct attention to the particular source of danger , thus labelling the offence in a way which both describes the circumstances of the offence and serves an educative or even deterrent purpose . |
| 21 | If we had trained for jobs such as guard , signalman or even fireman and driver then we could do at least some of the operating jobs ( guard and signalman training is not difficult ) . |
| 22 | A standing stone is erected or a tree planted , followed generations later by a wayside cross , church , inn or even village . |
| 23 | But in spite of the immense authority which he now possessed , his poetry had ceased to be fashionable or " chic " in the way that The Waste Land or even Ash-Wednesday had originally been : the new , or at least young , poets were no longer particularly interested in what he had to show them . |
| 24 | Many of them do not have proper boots , or even socks . |
| 25 | Pupils who have done well at Standard Grade and wish to specialise in computing may study for Higher Computing Studies or even Certificate of Sixth Year Studies Computing . |
| 26 | You could win a Runner-Up Prize of £100.00 or £10.00 — £50.00 or £5.00 — £20.00 or one of the 10 Fifth Prizes each of £500.00 or the 5 Fourth Prizes of £1,000.00 or the £5,000.00 Third Prize , the £10,000.00 Second Prize or the First Prize of £30,000.00 or even £60,000.00 if it is returned promptly . |
| 27 | Subsequent studies ( e.g. Kleinsmith & Kaplan , 1963 , 1964 ; Parkin , Lewinsohn & Folkard , 1982 ) have found that recall for associates to emotional words , or even nonsense syllables evoking high GSRs , is worse after short retention intervals ( e.g. 2 minutes ) but better after longer intervals ( e.g. 7 days ) . |
| 28 | The fact that acts of violence , aggression , or even boastfulness ( buagun ) are consistently condemned , and the lack of any positive evaluation of acts of ‘ bravery ’ or ‘ courage ’ , may result in a lower rate of deliberate maiming and homicide among the Buid than among populations which attach positive evaluations to such acts ( everything else being equal ) . |
| 29 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 30 | They may be working among old people , or schoolchildren , or even convicts . |