Example sentences of "or two the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a minute or two the Asian suddenly slid out from the side of the big curtains and then stopped , a tray of drinks and ice creams round his neck . |
| 2 | Perhaps in a minute or two the door would open again and there would be … who ? |
| 3 | Sneezing and fluent , bland coryza ; the mucous membranes of the nose may be swollen and after a day or two the coryza may extend to the larynx with a hard cough . |
| 4 | After a month or two the backache had eased , leaving me with sciatica . |
| 5 | ‘ But you 've comforted many a weary soul , listened to lots of troubled folk and even given one or two the will to live again . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course , ’ Robin-Anne went on , ‘ the brain eventually manufactures more dopamine , so after a day or two the cocaine can work again , and you go soaring up from hell into heaven . |
| 7 | If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed . |
| 8 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
| 9 | For a second or two the moon escapes from behind the rushing clouds casting silvery shadows on the ruined abbey . |
| 10 | It was rather extensive at first and consequence of being and a necessity of taking in clothes of all the paupers who , with , which on a , on a waste of after a week or two the number of the workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers and the board were in , were in and then in which the boys got back , were , were a large was a cop was a copper at one end , after which the master dressed in an apron and assisted by one or two women and they ladled the gruel at meal times . |
| 11 | For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal . |
| 12 | Mental disturbance requiring such security is often short-lived and within a week or two the person may be well enough to enjoy the normal freedoms accorded other patients . |
| 13 | As she worked the crochet table-mats her mother had ordered , the intricate sequence of stitches could blot out for a moment or two the scenes that daily since that Easter feast she had staged between herself and Tommaso Talvi . |
| 14 | They clinked glasses and sipped their liqueurs in a companionable silence , forgetting for a minute or two the gruesome nature of their discussion . |
| 15 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |
| 16 | Lyndon Johnson 's searing complaints against the British have been much quoted , yet for the first year or two the president was not insensitive to the political realities in London . |
| 17 | After a year or two the child 's family placement worker will begin the search for a new family . |