Example sentences of "sooner or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once infected , you will — sooner or later — develop fullblown AIDS . |
| 2 | Keep shit at bay , keep warmth at bay , those maggots of feeling , breeding in the shit , sooner or later it gets to them all , even Hilda , love at last , her very words , who would have thought it . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell , you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine , but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile . |
| 4 | Though in the longterm , as I have said before , he wrote , it makes little difference , the tide always wins out , sooner or later all vanishes into the sea . |
| 5 | It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world . |
| 6 | If you do that , he wrote , then sooner or later the will will crack and the truth will emerge , reality will re-assert itself . |
| 7 | If pilots continue to do this , sooner or later they will get hurt . |
| 8 | Sooner or later students will need to swing , or stop a swing , to avoid a collision on the ground . |
| 9 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 10 | However unless birth control methods are used , sooner or later the woman is likely to get pregnant . |
| 11 | One may , in Derridean terms , play with these conflicting versions of ‘ Derrida ’ , but sooner or later , if one is writing about him , or teaching him , then one has to choose , since they are competing versions . |
| 12 | Or , should they be slowing down because sooner or later their hectic pace will do them in ? |
| 13 | He may have concluded that Mr Honecker is a lost cause , but sooner or later ( and probably sooner ) he will leave the stage . |
| 14 | But they concede this is likely to take the form , sooner or later , of a less demanding timetable of deficit cuts . |
| 15 | Even if the equation could be established , the beneficiaries are not the same or do not see themselves as the same : the patients paying two shillings for their bottles of medicine do not identify themselves with the patients admitted to hospital sooner or treated more efficiently . |
| 16 | Every change in the preferences of the public at home or abroad , every alteration in supply and demand — those dreadful archaic words had to be pronounced sooner or later — will express itself in a change of prices . |
| 17 | Nonsense can never be talked with impunity by anyone ; and when governments solemnly talk nonsense in the name of nations , harm is certain to come of it sooner or later . |
| 18 | All humbug is punished sooner or later ; but Nemesis is notoriously slow , and it was a quarter of a century before she struck and the United Kingdom found itself , to the malicious glee of her neighbours , the first signatory state to the Convention to be found guilty of a breach of its terms , in Ulster in 1971 . |
| 19 | The other concurrent development was the growing and irrepressible conviction that the inhabitants of India would claim and must sooner or later obtain responsibility for their own government . |
| 20 | Because of that it was inevitable that sooner or later I would be delegated by Steve and Paul to fence some of the gear they 'd purloined . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | True , the disease would sooner or later reach Norway after travelling up through Finland , but the Norwegian government had decided to stall it as long as possible . |
| 23 | Sooner or later , if she ever got her reason back , she would realise that her daughter had resigned from this German job six weeks before the accident , that she had n't breathed a word to her aunt or her friends about the possibility of her returning to Europe . |
| 24 | You 'll have to sooner or later and I reckon this storm 's set in for hours . |
| 25 | There is bound , sooner or later , to be a battle royal over membership of the European Monetary System , the result of which will be either an almost unprecedented humiliation for Mrs Thatcher or the reshaping yet again of a Cabinet in her own image . |
| 26 | It 's a relaxation to me , although one 's nerve is bound to go sooner or later . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Just Cause ’ was a carefully planned invasion just waiting to happen , poised at the starting gate for the kind of justification that the macho thug in Panama City was bound to provide sooner or later . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll be able to talk to her sooner or later , and it sounds as if she might actually be useful . |
| 30 | ‘ You would have , sooner or later , ’ McLeish said , liking the man . |