Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 It is a characteristic of a task requiring vigilance that it can span a long time , minutes or hours or even a whole work-shift .
2 If your employee was employed by you for a continuous period of at least two calendar years into the qualifying week and normally worked 16 hours or more a week , she is eligible for the higher rate of SMP .
3 Three conditions apply : the claimant must be in paid working employment for 16 hours or more a week , suffer from an illness or disability which leaves them disadvantaged when applying for a job and must have recently been getting benefit such as income support , housing or community charge benefit .
4 Although their main purpose in life was the Opus Dei , the nine hours or more a day spent in the choir of the great church , the abbey was the centre of a complex industrial and social organisation .
5 Clause 23 and Sch 4 give every employee who works eight hours or more a week the right , within two months of starting work , to a written statement of the main terms and conditions of the employment , including details of pay , hours of work and holidays .
6 At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week .
7 Thirdly , there is a group of institutions where only a minority of students are on advanced courses .
8 Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness .
9 This may actually be seen to better advantage in conversion to offices or even a house .
10 For consumers who use 1,000 units or less a new tariff is introduced , with no standing charge .
11 It will no doubt suit a good top coat , or perhaps cushion covers or possibly a bed cover .
12 In the first place it is argued that the real motive which underlay her ostentatious partisanship of enlightenment , especially in the 1760s , was not a concern for the well-being of her subjects or even a deep belief in ideas of enlightened government , but mere vanity .
13 Sometimes forks would appear on the right and knives on the left ‘ sometimes ( Henry always felt this was Maisie 's way of telling people they were not welcome ) two knives or only a spoon .
14 We must be careful with this argument because it is sometimes based on anatomical studies that have used insensitive methods or only a partial consideration of the data .
15 So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’
16 Sometimes it is best to wait for 3 to 6 months or even a year to do this .
17 However , there was some evidence that events could act over a period as long as six months or even a year , particularly in the patient series .
18 We will aim to guarantee everyone out of work for six months or more a place on either a high quality training programme or on a work programme with a strong element of training .
19 Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave .
20 Difficulties only arise when dieters get it into their heads that only a certain source of protein is acceptable and therefore restrict the overall range .
21 In the course of their researches , Les and Pam discovered that the Ministry of Defence ( Air ) had no list of Far East survivors nor even a complete list of those captured by the Japanese .
22 The result is that the Viking badge today adorns a range of cars that only a few years ago would have been impossible to imagine .
23 The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen .
24 He has also made the ‘ Chorus Line ’ of paired sets of dancing legs and even a soccer tackle with contrasting team shorts on the legs plus a suspended ball !
25 It was n't just going to be papers , it could be health clinics , bookshops , making a network of people sharing lifestyles and indeed an economic base .
26 For disillusioned people like me , why not have a method of showing displeasure by having on the ballot paper the names of the aspiring candidates and also a space for a no confidence vote .
27 Our customers are many and varied , ranging from domestic pets to farm animals and even an occasional exotic animal — like the lion that was brought from a travelling circus with a cut foot , and caused consternation amongst our more regular clients ; they were not prepared for such a large cat sitting in the back of a Land Rover in our car park .
28 ‘ This indulgence by journalists and sadly a small number of politicians has been transparent since the shadow cabinet elections in August . ’
29 In Norfolk she picked Timothy Colman ; in Aberdeenshire , Captain Colin Farquharson , formerly of the Brigade of Guards and subsequently a land agent ; and in Gloucestershire , Colonel Martin Gibbs , another military Old Etonian .
30 This is usually a result of family and marriage ties and so an employer might expect young unattached female staff to be more willing to relocate than married women .
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