Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 By the time they 're ten or eleven they 're on a six handicap .
2 Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted .
3 But one summer when I was around ten or eleven I developed a nasty sore throat which the doctor thought was tonsillitis .
4 We 've still got about ten or eleven I think , have n't we ?
5 In all honesty I think they are exactly the same as newpaper reports in that if a team wins 3–0 or 4–0 they automatically say it was a trouncing , and then dredge up ‘ facts ’ to evidence their overall assumption .
6 When we were seven or eight we could clear the place up as good as my Mum … but I 've seen some girls — like my aunt 's little girl and she 's fifteen , she 's just hopeless .
7 At fourteen or forty they are constant , dependable , consistently dispensing happiness wherever they go .
8 In 1902 or 1903 he married in Toledo Grace Cornelia , an artist , the daughter of William Eaton Canedy of Chicago , an inventor and manufacturer of heavy mining machinery .
9 When I was 11 or 12 I had aspirations to be a goalkeeper too .
10 When I am down in States l or 2 it seems to me that I am always there , with all the flags hanging limp and absolutely still , and not a breath of air moving .
11 However , even at kindergarten his rebellious streak was showing and at the age of five or six he was playing truant .
12 And I suppose what I was thinking was that when he 's worked till five or six he was doing it every day , but he has n't .
13 When he 's worked till five or six he will then
14 Your chances of the two being male and female are not very good , but with five or six you should be sure of a pair , unless you are very unlucky .
15 Yes , so many ladies I d I do n't know how many there were about erm five or six I think
16 Aye just was five or six I think .
17 I sent away and passed the exams and I became a policeman , but I always wanted to become a policeman when I , from about eighteen or nineteen it 's just that I drifted the wrong way .
18 On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood .
19 In 1811 or 1812 he returned to Edinburgh to set up practice , and by the 1820s had become the leading country house architect in Scotland .
20 When planted in threes or fives they make good clumps to grow and flower above other plantings .
21 I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it .
22 About two or three I think .
23 No problem it 's just g it 's a bit funny if there 's more than one of them if you get two or three you do n't say two ox if you had two or three boxes fine but with ox it 's one of these silly words you just have to remember it 's oxen .
24 said er , they said Wrexham they 've got two or three you know mu museums for , and that different halls he said er
25 In c .1698 or 1699 he married Henrietta Maria , daughter of Abraham Barber , property owner , of Rotherhithe .
26 When he was about thirteen or fourteen he decided he would like to take classes provided that he could go to private lessons .
27 I 'd have , I 'd have about fifteen or fourteen I 'm , I 'm knackered now !
28 When I was fifteen or sixteen I found a confirmation of my interest in what it is to take on your own past in some of Sartre 's work .
29 Fifty or sixty I think .
30 Er , thi thirty or sixty I mean .
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