And I was British, but working for an American paper, and thus, in her mind, an odd, if not second-order, kind of Englishman.
If not third time lucky, then perhaps fourth.
But they would prefer to be second, if not third or fourth.
"If you know how to put one together," Folsom explained, "it literally takes minutes, if not seconds.
Such is the acute pain of losing a love that feels singular; a person measures that sort of agony in minutes, if not seconds, if not nanoseconds.
At a race of this caliber, an ordinary margin of victory would have been measured in tenths of a second, if not hundredths.
(Airline representatives all say that they allow families to board if not first then at least before coach passengers paying regular fare, but anecdotal reporting suggests otherwise).
The Sonics' third, if not fourth, option on offense, he is averaging 10.6 points and 8.8 rebounds on fewer than 10 shots a game.
Such artists tap into what everyone is thinking and make it seem that they thought of it, if not first, then best.
When shots have been fired in a powerful man's home, you have minutes, if not seconds, before the arrival of security.
