| Sikhs, on the other hand, do not give or take dowries, and they solemnize their marriages before the Granth, their sacred book. |
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| Everything I tell you really did happen, give or take a few liberties of poetic licence. |
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| Events could unfold as described above, or they could develop a bit differently, give or take a nuke or two. |
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| We already know the outcome of the election, give or take, but it is a mere sideshow compared to the importance of the referendum. |
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| I have two Quarter Horse geldings, one age 22, by his papers, and the other is about the same age, give or take a year or two. |
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| After doing that we discovered that a extinction event we think occurred 46,500 years ago, give or take a couple of thousand years. |
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| They found that the mass extinction occurred 46,400 years ago, give or take 3,000 years. |
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| I've been a private eye for thirty-five years, give or take, and I've never run across anything like this. |
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| The ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol carried around by the Egyptian gods, normally signifying the ability to give or take life. |
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| And that, give or take a few sequences depicting extreme and aberrant weather conditions around the globe, is it. |
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| In fact, I think you could probably watch this movie within about fifteen minutes, give or take thirty seconds. |
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| Although no one knows for certain, most authorities agree that the pug originated in China around 2,500 years ago, give or take a few centuries. |
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| Around the age of 40, give or take, the focusing system of the eye becomes less flexible, a normal aging process called presbyopia. |
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| Six years ago he was about where he is now, give or take a law degree and the snappy suit. |
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| That's 75,000 soldiers, give or take, who will either stay stateside or at a staging area in Kuwait. |
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| You must always reapply your sunblock after about an hour and a half, give or take how light you are. |
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| These active insectivores are usually pretty small, roughly 5.5 inches in length, give or take a half-inch. |
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| The standard measure of beer in UK pubs is about a pint, give or take head. |
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| The amounts he invested are basically the same, give or take a few million dollars, as in previous years. |
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| Every February, give or take a couple of weeks, more than a million wildebeest, or gnus, gather in the south-eastern quadrant of their quasi-circular migration route. |
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| Which, give or take five minutes or so, is when we got there. |
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| The standard indoor track is 200m long give or take 20m or so. |
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| He departed this vale two decades or so ago, give or take a few years. |
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| I spent almost my entire first 17 years, give or take a day out or the odd holiday, within a one mile radius of the house that's been our home for over 50 years. |
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| Two million sockeye salmon represent, give or take, 12 million pounds of salmon. |
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| Unfortunately, the Evans report, give or take a few exceptions, follows in exactly the same vein. |
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| It's roughly 1,500 acres, 1,000 head of cattle, give or take, and they're having a job to justify taking it over. |
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| We fish an area, give or take a little bit, of about 22,000 square kilometres, up to 50 miles from the headland. |
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| The active membership is about 10 veterinarians in British Columbia, I suppose, give or take. |
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| There's wild drumming throughout, and though it'll test your patience from time to time, the whole of the CD is wrapped up in 30 minutes give or take. |
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| A parthenogenetic population is, by definition, all female and the result, give or take the odd mutation, is that a rotifer's daughters are genetically identical to her. |
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| Painting all segregationists as cartoon racists encourages the rest of us to take cover under a blanket illusion of blamelessness — give or take an Abu Ghraib or a Penn State football program. |
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| The Herald, therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two. |
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| The history of Europe as a whole, give or take a century, is full of different kinds of works which have survived the passage of time because of their artistic value. |
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| It would affect about 60 people per year, give or take, if we were to add the amendment by the member for Acadie-Bathurst to include police members. |
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| It goes about three to one, give or take, depending on the operation. |
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| It's T-minus 168 hours, give or take a time zone, before the Autumn Games begin as spring arrives to a lingering winter-struck Sydney, Australia. |
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| Copulation for a panda lasts between 30 seconds and five minutes it's roughly the same for me, give or take five minutes. |
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| The offence of causing unnecessary pain to an animal stays the same, give or take, but the sentence is increased from the current six month maximum to a five year maximum. |
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| The average temperature on that day is about 16 degrees, so this species over the past 10,000 years, every year, has experienced on average 16 degrees on that particular day, give or take global changes. |
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| Of course, that's sort of a broad thing, but I think roughly a third of people who divorce, give or take, are going to get along fine post-divorce, no matter what we do to the law. |
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| Around an inch long, give or take a? of an inch, straight, dense, close. |
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| It had a mass of 125 gigaelectronvolts, give or take a gigaelectronvolt, and decayed into other particles such as W and Z bosons at predictable rates. |
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| Give or take a few crores, the national parties among themselves have spent a thousand crore rupees. |
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