Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you attempt to pass the SPR on for the seventh time or to the same user twice , LIFESPAN will display an error message and you will not be allowed to pass it on . |
| 2 | I 've got it I 've got it at home I can bring it in at the next meeting or whatever . |
| 3 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 4 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 5 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 6 | ‘ I want to think about it and will probably make my mind up in the next day or two . ’ |
| 7 | The inspector was pleased to receive that , noting the fact that we had a , a drop in our work output but expected that , that would go up in the next year or two . |
| 8 | Up to the sixteenth century or so , most people in Britain lived in the countryside . |
| 9 | Well , it had been , up to the last half-hour or so . |
| 10 | The fact that we have bombed Iraq , a rather small Third World country , back into the 19th century or even earlier ; the likelihood of continuing violence in the Middle East ; the probable Lebanisation of Iraq and Kuwait the increasing difficulty in finding a solution to the Palestinian problem ; the increased threat of terrorism ; the erosion of democracy — all these issues will stimulate opposition to a long-term North-South confrontation . |
| 11 | A company seeking a flotation might be better off skipping the OTC and starting out on the third market or USM . |
| 12 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 13 | By continuing on the diet plan the indiscretion will work its way out over the next day or two . |
| 14 | They 'll be coming out over the next year or so . |
| 15 | Although some attempts at tackling air pollution problems date back to the last century or even earlier , most countries introduced their strategy for air pollution control in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s . |
| 16 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 17 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 18 | You 'd think he 'd have told you he would n't be around for the next week or two . |