Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clark found that around half of his sample had travelled only 10 miles or less and only a tenth 40 miles or more , with women tending to move over shorter distances than men . |
| 2 | On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more . |
| 3 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
| 4 | " The history of the Russian people " , wrote Shchapov from prison a month later , " fills our heart with the belief and the hope that sooner or later a time must come for the Russian people when it acquires political self-consciousness and , as a result , political self-government " . |
| 5 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 6 | If you use Imigran more than once or twice a month , you should also be using a continuous anti-migraine treatment and reserving Imigran for breakthrough migraines . |
| 7 | He had no visitors , although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence . |
| 8 | It is even possible that now and again an extra long detour may have caused us to walk below the windows of Braemar Mansions ( ‘ not mansions , ’ wrote Ivy , ‘ but converted out of houses ’ ) , little knowing that there sat the sibyl who would completely have understood all our troubles . |
| 9 | There is , of course , absolutely no doubt that even when only a facsimile of a document is available a professional historian or amateur specialist can gain a great deal from its perusal ; much more so when there is the opportunity to examine the original itself . |
| 10 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 11 | Every fan has a personal memory , a wild weekend at Wembley , a night at the dancing , a rammy at the taxi-rank , and sooner or later a Scottish footballer staggers through the story adding a new level of absurdity to the proceedings . |
| 12 | If you fill your factory with machines so sophisticated that they can make anything that any blueprint tells them to make , it is hardly surprising if sooner or later a blueprint arises that tells these machines to make copies of itself . |
| 13 | Caine was filming in London with Sidney Poitier , and once or twice a week they would take it in turns to treat each other to a decent meal . |
| 14 | By the final session , the average frequency of waking had fallen to once or twice a week and once or twice a night ; settling time had decreased . |
| 15 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 16 | Year to year there are variations ; summer may start two weeks late , or two weeks early , or tentatively … and once or twice a year the weather goes into a sulk for a few days and refuses to co-operate with us . |
| 17 | The ringisho ( request for a decision ) goes back and forth and eventually a consensus is achieved among the interested parties , with the president giving his final approval . |
| 18 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 19 | By that time there were brothers and a sister playing about the floor of the nursery in Hampstead , and now and again a new baby in the cradle . |
| 20 | The only people to phone were Joseph and Lily , and now and again a friend of Elaine 's from work . |
| 21 | The sounds of the party were faint here , and now and then a few bars of melody drifted toward us . |
| 22 | At this time of night the street was quiet : the occasional car , and now and then a group of rowdy youths asserting their masculinity like stags in rut . |
| 23 | Even a little food could be had at a pinch , for here and there were a few pale twists of grass and here and there a dandelion . |
| 24 | I shuffled down the shingle until I felt the mush of dry seaweed , and then I explored it with my hands — yes , it was just the stuff one would expect , weed , and here and there a bit of wood . |
| 25 | Against walls , jars of oil , cheap wine , and black and red beer were stacked , and here and there a low table displayed jewellery . |
| 26 | The shadows provided some relief , and here and there a man or a donkey dozed in one . |
| 27 | The air was heavy with thick , herbal smells , as though it were already late June ; the water-mint and marjoram , not yet flowering , gave off scent from their leaves and here and there an early meadow-sweet stood in bloom . |
| 28 | In the case of credit , it has been suggested that even if barely one in three consumers is aware of credit costs , and even if only a few of them use the information to shop around actively , lenders might compete with lower rates as a result . |
| 29 | It seems that in any country , the Rottweiler is always recognized as a working dog first and a show dog as an after thought and then as only a show dog . |
| 30 | The essentially political nature of this issue is rarely addressed publicly and explicitly , but sooner or later a decision will have to be made over whether or not those in possession of the rural landscape should be forced to cede some of their control . |