Example sentences of "[num] or [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went fifty or sixty kilometres every day . |
| 2 | Selling fifty or sixty issues a time proved to be good business . |
| 3 | But in fact most of the vehicles travel at fifty or sixty miles an hour on this crossing . |
| 4 | For manufacturing companies employing fifty or fewer people the Category B winner and recipient of the Local Enterprise Development Unit Award was Typerite Limited . |
| 5 | In figure 8.1 , we could have expressed the differentials between service and working class as a ratio rather than a difference ; service class children had 0.719/0.237 or 3.03 times the chance of attending a selective school of some kind than working class children did . |
| 6 | This means the eight or nine pence a litre they receive for their milk — little more than a third of European prices — reflects the reality of world dairy markets rather than the subsidies enjoyed by European farmers . |
| 7 | When I was in Hawaii I practised for eight or nine hours a day ; now I practise a lot less , but I do so a lot more efficiently and effectively . |
| 8 | ‘ At the moment I 'm only doing up to eight or nine miles a day . |
| 9 | Occasionally — maybe eight or ten times a season on the remaining Saturdays — there were first class fixtures for select fifteens representing the unions in the Currie Cup competition . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's full speed ahead for the seasons , and , if I can , I work 12 or 14 hours a day then , because otherwise I ca n't see myself through the quiet times . |
| 11 | Club Keno is currently operated in participating NSW clubs 12 or more hours a day , seven days a week , with a game every six minutes and jackpots growing to more than $1 million . |
| 12 | 2 or three times a month |
| 13 | A less severe cough , cold , throat or stomach upset etc. may need a dose 2 or 3 times a day . |
| 14 | EAT 2 OR 3 TIMES A WEEK |
| 15 | Music is played in the lounge 2 or 3 times a week . |
| 16 | The most common pattern seems to be sex 2 or 3 times a week . |
| 17 | Editor had already received the class winner 's trophy in the section for newspapers published 10 or more times a year when TV and Radio personality Barry Took opened a sealed envelope to reveal the evening 's top award . |
| 18 | A worse fate awaits even larger stars — those initially of about 10 or more times the Sun 's mass . |
| 19 | The CCLGF meets six or seven times a year and is chaired by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 20 | Other players knock a ball about six or seven times a week . ’ |
| 21 | He says that getting fatter may be the result of a build-up of eating even as little as 200 , 100 or 50 calories a day more than you expend as energy — over a period of months or years . |
| 22 | The runner with a good endurance base finds training easier , and will recover properly from it — that is why the top-class 10,000m runners run 90 or 100 miles a week . |
| 23 | Audrey said : ‘ We used to get three or four calls a night asking for Vic . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Moir said : ‘ We used to get three or four calls a night asking for Vic . ’ |
| 25 | The organization is infectious ; many people have joined intending to make a small , easily-managed commitment and ended up doing three or four shifts a week and taking on extra work until sometimes their whole life becomes bound up in the organization . |
| 26 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 27 | Most universities do three or four essays a term here it 's twelve or sixteen |
| 28 | Inside , the stove kept me warm while I cooked or whenever I made a mug of tea which was three or four times a night . |
| 29 | Initially , the children were waking up almost every night of the week , and about three or four times a night . |
| 30 | Three or four times a night on an estate in Oxford … so called joy riders would put on displays in high powered stolen cars … three months ago after a number of the Littlemore estate … |