Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that [adj] or [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that two or three really close friends are all that we can manage if we are to give and receive all the important things that friendship offers . |
| 2 | I understand that two or three days are required to complete it all . |
| 3 | My first instinct was to back the car and find a different way round , but then in the headlights I saw that three or four men were all dressed in black shirts . |
| 4 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 5 | If you say that the Nationalists of Ireland have a right to claim to go out of the united Kingdom as a community if you say that five or six per cent of the whole of the United Kingdom have that right because they wish to have separate rule for themselves , how can you say that a body in Ireland , not five or six per cent , but twenty-five per cent of the whole population , has not an equal right to separate treatment ? |
| 6 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 7 | We believe that one or two buy-outs will be allowed to succeed , but that many SBG assets will be sold to the crude private sector . |
| 8 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 9 | He added that two or three state industries would be privatized and that efforts would be made to streamline the administration of the rest , making them self-financing . |