Example sentences of "three or [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Audrey said : ‘ We used to get three or four calls a night asking for Vic . ’ |
| 2 | Mrs Moir said : ‘ We used to get three or four calls a night asking for Vic . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | • 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 . |
| 5 | Most universities do three or four essays a term here it 's twelve or sixteen |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Initially , the children were waking up almost every night of the week , and about three or four times a night . |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | In the end I got to the state when it might happen three or four times a day . |
| 10 | Her research is meticulous , she has some very interesting new sources ( notably Venetia 's letters to Montagu at a time when Asquith was writing three or four times a day to her , but subsequently destroying her replies to these letters ) , and she mostly writes sensitively . |
| 11 | Natrum Phosphoricum 6x three or four times a day given as well as the indicated remedy will often help the body to rectify this acid imbalance and hence helps the indicated remedy to work more effectively and quickly . |
| 12 | But apparently I have to feel The Bump three or four times a day or be found guilty of Not Being Involved as a Father , or worse still , of this darkly Freudian offence called Denial . |
| 13 | Everybody from taxi drivers to government ministers listens to foreign radios three or four times a day and every threatening sound from Washington is seen as a sign of a new attack . |
| 14 | Iraqis traditionally offer guests a small glass of very hot tea and drink it three or four times a day themselves . |
| 15 | It was packed like three or four times a day . |
| 16 | Three or four times a day ? |
| 17 | Well , it 's funny cos like , she 'd , me Mum an that 's been taking her shopping down and she 's been buying it herself and like me Auntie Jean , she goes down three or four times a day sometimes and then she goes down again and it 's all missing ! |
| 18 | It was a lesson not lost on Klaus Hofsaess , the West German team captain , who said : ‘ It is absolutely necessary that Steffi plays doubles three or four times a year with a German player . ’ |
| 19 | The Conservative parliamentary selection board meets three or four times a year . |
| 20 | There were regular travellers whom they came to recognise , people who crossed the forest three or four times a year , foremen in charge of the great waggons of building-stones , or carters with consignments of wheat from the eastern cornlands , or drovers with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep … these last never ventured without a large escort . |
| 21 | All of which is pretty weird because I 'm used to catching the band three or four times a year ! |
| 22 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 23 | " Only three or four times a year . |
| 24 | This journal , which covers most aspects of Latin American affairs with the emphasis on contemporary socio-political developments , was originally published bi-monthly in Russian and three or four times a year in Spanish . |
| 25 | Small but perfectly put together — that 's sassy Current Account , a compact A4 publication distributed three or four times a year to a circulation below 1,000 , which might well make it the least-read of any of the winners in the Editing for Industry competition . |
| 26 | I 've got a client who races stock cars , but as he only does it three or four times a year , they do n't actually charge him any extra at all . |
| 27 | Volunteers are needed to give about one hour a month for a group meeting , plus fund-raising events , usually three or four times a year . |
| 28 | Her family still lives in Ostrava and Mrs Welch , who visits them three or four times a year , says the area has a great deal in common with Cleveland . |
| 29 | The club meets three or four times a year . |
| 30 | In the summer months it was polo , which he played unremittingly three or four times a week . |