Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] two [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 2 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 3 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 4 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 5 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 6 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 7 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 8 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |