Example sentences of "[adv] be [adj] or [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And each man , or perhaps been one or two men doing the one jo the one order and they was each responsible for their own and then you 'd got ta put your name down sometimes for a machine you know . |
| 2 | Hitherto there had only been four or five types available in England . |
| 3 | Detention of a whole class may technically still be lawful , although it is becoming increasingly likely that a judge would have doubts about the reasonableness of this course of action where it is known that there may only be one or two culprits . |
| 4 | Even where there may only be two or three partners , the case for incorporating a power of expulsion in the partnership agreement is strong . |
| 5 | Permanent Health Insurance , that 's not sickness and accident , which would normally be one or two year contract . |
| 6 | There will normally be three or four classes — for a first-timer the best choice will be either the Novice or the Pairs ( usually 2′ 6 ″/2; ′ 9″ ) . |
| 7 | A senior foreign ministry official in Portugal , the former colonial ruler , said the ministry believed the city of Huambo had fallen ‘ although there may still be one or two pockets of resistance ’ . |
| 8 | There will also be one or two changes in Government responsibilities . |
| 9 | We have asked questions about clearing the grass up afterwards and we 're told that would probably be two or three times the amount in the contract and in the actual , at the end of the day you get what you 're paid for , you get what you pay for , and if you do n't provide the resources or you ca n't provide the resources , I should say , then obviously you 've got ta make do with second best . |
| 10 | The farm had originally been two or three houses and there was a little cottage at the back where a lady we used to call Aunt Polly lived . |
| 11 | Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that the air squadrons of the Royal Naval Reserve have been especially effective and exceptionally well recruited and that there have even been one or two Harrier pilots in the reserve ? |
| 12 | Here are one or two activities as starting suggestions ( you will think of many more ) : making bread — painting the ceiling — bathing the dog — writing a letter — mending a fuse — changing a lightbulb . |
| 13 | You know , for your information the attainment targets have quite lengthy descriptions here are one or two examples , here 's a maths one , here 's an English one , here 's a |
| 14 | Could we ask you when you are making your plan of your next trial audit to consider that issue on our behalf and it may well be there are one or two areas which have n't featured |
| 15 | Think she goes to er there are four or five doctors at the clinic up the lane . |
| 16 | Mace claims that some $1bn of business has now been conducted on 88000-based system products , and claims , as the group often does , that there will be more converts to the cause — this time around there are five or six Intel Corp i860 manufacturers on its hitlist. 88open will open a European office this summer , either in the UK or Germany , which will use space rented in one of its members ' offices . |
| 17 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 18 | And he 'd actually confirmed that you , you found it useful and he had mentioned earlier on there were one or two ways that you could actually help him |