Example sentences of "[conj] two [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Males arrive on the breeding grounds a day or two ahead of the females and set up territories . |
| 2 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 3 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 4 | I admired the speech of the right hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) , one of the more distinguished orators in the House , against whom I debated only a week or two ago in the Oxford Union . |
| 5 | If there is n't a false cornice or cove , form one by painting a stripe or two immediately under the ceiling . |
| 6 | " Saigon has a twin city , Cholon , a mile or two away across the plain — that 's where they 're making for . |
| 7 | Then plan a week or two away from the village in order to catch up with some of those desk jobs that are hanging over your head . |
| 8 | He stopped a pace or two away from the bed and regarded her with an unexpectedly teasing glint in his eyes . |
| 9 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 10 | He would fast frequently , only take one meal a day , and would rise at one or two o'clock in the morning to pray . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ They wake people up at one or two o'clock in the morning with their laughing and shouting . ’ |
| 12 | The apprentices er did n't start before six o'clock in the morning of course they could n't start apprentice before six o'clock in the morning until he was maybe in his last year then it would be either one o'clock or two o'clock in the morning . |
| 13 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 14 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 15 | Er throw two and two together into the centre . |
| 16 | And I went down , and come back up with this tray of drinks and er Mike screaming , and I still had n't seen this feller I give the other drinks out , well when I went to take his in well he was as black as two o'clock in the morning was n't he ? |
| 17 | Black as two o'clock in the morning ! |