Example sentences of "[num] or [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 2 | He died in 594 or perhaps a year later . |
| 3 | Among those aged 85 or more a similar proportion of those with and without living siblings had been admitted to a home at some stage but among those aged 75 — 84 more of those without any such relatives had been admitted : 30 per cent compared with 17 per cent . |
| 4 | Since oestrogen is a potent inhibitor of bone resorption , we investigated changes in calcium metabolism in women with hot flushes. 37 postmenopausal women ( at least 9 months after the last menstrual period ) were divided into groups according to the frequency of hot flushes over 4 weeks : ( A ) subjects without flushes ( 18 ) , and ( B ) with less than 2 ( 7 ) , ( C ) 3–9 ( 6 ) , and ( D ) 10 or more a day ( 6 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ For management data it 's no good having a five , six or even a 20 dimensional database , ’ he says , ‘ because that 's not the way data works . |
| 6 | So realism suggests a limit on the number of candidates , and if in some Irish constituencies there are a dozen or even a score the reason is that they include candidates of small or perhaps minuscule parties besides more or less cranky independents : the two major parties are not responsible . |
| 7 | Figure 11.18 shows the percentages of pupils ( boys and girls taken together ) in each sector gaining three or more A levels ( important for university entry ) , in England and Wales in 1951 and 1981 . |
| 8 | It is , therefore , sometimes a little difficult to keep up-to-date , for although what is found may not be in the area being researched by the local historian concerned , it may , nonetheless , have a bearing , for the style of housing suggested for one place may be typical of that formerly existing in another , ten or even a hundred miles away . |
| 9 | At a level above that is assembly language whose commands normally translate into a set , of ten or perhaps a hundred , machine language commands . |
| 10 | First , the restitutionary remedy is expressed to be available not only against ‘ that person , ’ i.e. the contravener of section 3 or perhaps an associate of the contravener , but also against ‘ any other person … knowingly concerned in the contravention . ’ |
| 11 | Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting . |
| 12 | They never come round on their own , and you you see them in the daytime , you know probably one or twice a week . |
| 13 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
| 14 | However , most of these were very small organizations only arranging a few hundred or perhaps a few thousand holidays a year . |
| 15 | Then we , father er with doing the bicycles and with interest in other engineering things like gas engines , which seemed to have a , a period of er great prosperity I would say er in the period between nineteen hundred or maybe a few years before that until early twenties the , the gas engines were ideal things for little factories . |
| 16 | The number of visits was much greater : 11 per cent had 300 or more — almost one a day , 33 per cent between 100 and 300 — two or more a week on average , 19 per cent 50 — 99 , between one and two a week , 4 per cent 20–49 — between one a fortnight and one a week , 14 per cent 10–19 — less than one a fortnight , 12 per cent had less than 10 or less than one a month . |
| 17 | About 10% of school pupils take two or more A levels , usually in full-time education in school or FE college , between the ages of 17 and 19 . |
| 18 | Erm , I 'll probably have er two or perhaps a three seater sofa and for the rest fire side chairs . |
| 19 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 20 | An executive earning , say £15 000 a year in salary may cost the employer as much as £80 000 or more a year to maintain in the overseas location . |
| 21 | Frankly nobody knows if the stuff is going to work when tens of thousands or even a million nodes are involved and that 's exactly what the large accounts are really interested in . |