Sentence examples of "sinon" in French with translation "if not"

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Il prend la plupart des décisions importantes, sinon toutes, pour sa société. He makes most, if not all, of the important decisions for his company.
Beaucoup, sinon la plupart des traducteurs professionnels traduisent seulement vers leur langue natale. Many, if not most, professional translators only translate into their native language.
Son ami sceptique dit qu'une industrie spatiale véritablement productive était peut-être à des centaines, sinon des milliers d'années d'ici. His skeptical friend said that a truly productive space industry may be hundreds, if not thousands, of years from now.
Que sommes-nous, en effet, qu'est ce que notre caractère, sinon la condensation de l'histoire que nous avons vécue depuis notre naissance. What are we, indeed, what is our character, if not the concentration of the things which we have lived since our birth.
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