Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adj] or [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 2 | the the original , the first weight gain , the first week ten days is bad enough you only gain two or three pounds but it 's all going round your tummy |
| 3 | After an hour , boredom has set in : the quick learners are impatient with those who ca n't follow , while the older women mechanically repeat five or six words in succession after the others , without even looking at their books . |
| 4 | " Still , we 'd better make one or two scrapes , do n't you think ? " said Hazel . |
| 5 | Well he only got four or five pounds worth did n't he ? |
| 6 | Perhaps bring four or five pigs home from Wicken , every Monday . |
| 7 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 8 | ‘ But it only needs one or two players to malfunction and we 'll be in trouble . |
| 9 | If you are using a full 24 bit colour photo-retouching or vector graphics drawing program on a system which can only display 16 or 256 colours Windows will attempt to represent all the screen colours required . |
| 10 | Also bear in mind that if you want to make some authentic-looking rose buds , each one will only need three or four petals , so several buds can be made from one flower . |
| 11 | Marlon Brando , in The Godfather ( 1972 ) , amiably declined to have the patience for such five-hour make-ups : an hour and a quarter was his maximum , but then he was only ageing 20 or 25 years , not 90 . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 13 | I 've only bought three or four presents |
| 14 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 15 | We phoned up T T G and Travel Weekly and they 've only got five or six names on on each list |
| 16 | This will give coverage to an activity taking place at the school but may only feature one or two children . |
| 17 | I have only had three or four games . |
| 18 | Sandison , who had only had three or four glasses of wine , began to feel light-headed . |
| 19 | One would expect this large amount of positive feed-back to lead to instability : as soon as the input is strong enough to excite one or two neurons , one would expect these to feed back on to others and initiate an explosive chain reaction . |
| 20 | Its two-dozen or so crumbling one or two room houses squatted in the scrubby hillside clearing like old termite mounds . |
| 21 | Apparently , most of us only remember two or three details . |
| 22 | ‘ But if it 's as they say it is and everything goes smoothly , David will only miss four or five matches at the most . |
| 23 | Cranmer could not become an archbishop again , but a return to scholarly life was possible if he would only sign one or two documents as a formality . |
| 24 | At the time , the department was only getting one or two referrals from Chinese people every year . |
| 25 | Two miles away at its closest point , the North Sea annually gnaws five or six ft from the clay coastline . |
| 26 | It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures . |
| 27 | Once a child is maturationally ready to toilet train the process usually only takes one or two weeks , but the teaching still has to come from the mother and she may be very uncertain about when to do it . |
| 28 | where we used to perhaps have five or six blokes building cars , you 've got one robot doing it now |
| 29 | A dealer exists to sell and since I can only produce two or three pictures a year the flow of the commodity is n't adjusted to the pace of the market . |
| 30 | Yes it only took four or five minutes until you were told the occupants were secure but then it er everybody waited for the C I D to arrive . |