Example sentences of "it is [num] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if you merely ask for a repetition of the number , it still may not be clear if it is fourteen or forty . |
| 2 | In most areas the continental crust consists of a thirty-kilometre thick slab of such rocks , but under high mountain ranges it is fifty or more kilometres thick . |
| 3 | Not until it is four or five months old does it discover the remarkable fact that water can be sniffed up into a trunk and then , if you blow out , you can hose it into your mouth . |
| 4 | wean their foals abruptly and completely ( generally a foal is gradually discouraged from suckling as the next one is on the way , but wo n't leave its mother until it is two or three ) ; |
| 5 | The groups at the higher points on the diagram — that is , those with higher median levels of RNR — consist of households in which the elderly live with younger people and it is one or more of the younger members who own or rent the home . |
| 6 | The sea off Sussex is shallow ; only off the chalk cliffs and at Fairlight does the five-fathom line come nearer than one kilometre from the shore , and along most of the county it is three or more kilometres out from the shore . |
| 7 | The fact that a criminal offence occurred a long time ago does not absolve the wrong-doer from guilt , and justice must be done , whether it is 30 or 300 years later . |