Example sentences of "[coord] [num] of [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Dairyman Crick milked six or eight of the difficult ones with his own hands . |
2 | ( 2 ) Cases within the county court 's equity and probate jurisdiction ( ie those mentioned in s 23 , 24 or 32 of the 1984 Act ) fall outside the remainder of these rules , as do proceedings which , in accordance with the rules laid down in arts 9 and 10 , have no quantifiable value ( art 7(2) ) . |
3 | It is estimated that in south-east Asia , some third or two-thirds of the residual trees are damaged irreparably while up to a third of the area is left as bare ground , often compacted by the forestry machinery . |
4 | ‘ Five or six of the younger lads will be fixed up in Australia , New Zealand or South Africa to further their education in the fame , and we usually reckon to have two or three players on international tours . |
5 | All patients leaving psychiatric hospitals have a right to after care services , not just those who have been detained under sections 3 , 37 , or 47 of the Mental Health Act . |
6 | Well unfortunately we were scheduled to have a meeting erm something like ten days ago and then two or three of the key people had to drop out so I cancelled the meeting because obviously we want the people there who were going to actually get the thing up and running so that we can formulate a first public meeting and I would like erm , you know , now , to establish a working party but again a number of the people who one would expect to be on it are not here and it 's slightly awkward . |
7 | This will make it extremely hard for some players to get more than two or three of the 11 games in Australia — and that would not be long enough to evaluate the newcomers ' test qualifications . |
8 | This situation is illustrated in Fig. 3.5 , where the peak static torque for two or three of the five phases excited is about 1.6 times the peak static torque with only one phase excited . |
9 | I 'll come up with two or three of the other men and knock on the door . |
10 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
11 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
12 | Keeler 's conclusion is that a weed must bear 10 or 11 of the tell-tale traits to be seriously weedy . |
13 | Secondly , where an exemption clause is not invalidated by section 2 , the buyer may be able to sue the seller for breach of contract and to defeat the exemption clause by virtue of sections 6 or 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
14 | The NCLE survey discussed earlier in this volume suggests that little prominence is given to linguistics topics such as ‘ Description of Language ’ , ‘ Language Variation ’ and ‘ Language and Disadvantage ’ , with only four or five of the 21 institutions reporting these in their courses . |
15 | The College proposes that this should apply to a small group of patients who are repeatedly admitted to hospital under sections 3 or 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and who require long-term support and supervision in the community , but are known to have a history of failing to co-operate with treatment ’ |
16 | In some cases you can only include one character of a certain type in your army , or one of a specific unit . |
17 | In some cases you can only include one character of a certain type in your army , or one of a specific unit . |
18 | In some cases you can only include one character of a certain type in your army , or one of a specific unit . |
19 | Your studio , hotel or apartment will be allocated on arrival and will be one of those featured in the brochure or one of a similar standard . |
20 | For a man , this does not seem to be so much of a problem ; he can be one of a squadron of marching , identically dressed soldiers , or one of a thousand employees in a firm , and still know that he is special and unique . |
21 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
22 | There was no other way in except to walk through the priory , but a stranger would be stopped by the porter and seen by any of the community , be it nun or one of the lay workers . |
23 | And in a minute , we 'll see the prime example of that , or one of the prime examples of that . |
24 | Add a page printer like the HP LaserJet , Canon A1 or one of the Ricoh-based products to a good word processing packages such as WordPerfect , Microsoft Word , Wordcraft or the latest incarnation of Samna and you have an instant solution . |
25 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
26 | To buy a phone you must go to a service provider , a dealer or one of the increasing number of retail stockists . |
27 | Below that the car risked bogging down in the mud or grounding on an obstacle , above it the tyres might lose adhesion on the continual twists and turns or cliff-like descents , or one of the vicious pot-holes or rock outcrops rupture the suspension or pierce the sump . |
28 | A project associated with the research activities of the department or one of the geophysical units of the NERC British Geological Survey or with a geophysical exploration company is undertaken during the vacation prior to the final year . |
29 | The ERASMUS scheme allows you to study for a year in Europe , whether you choose the single honours BCom or one of the joint degrees , provided you are able to study in the language of your host country . |
30 | Snowdrops , hyacinths , lily of the valley , pansies , miniature roses , lobelia , alyssum , forget-me-nots , common daisies or one of the small potentillas are all ideal candidates . |