Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] two [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 2 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 3 | It was only a moment or two before a couple of cars came up the hill and screeched into the side of the road . |
| 4 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 5 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 6 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |