Example sentences of "or [num] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If such an experiment were successful , I would n't care to be within thirty or forty miles at the time . ’ |
| 2 | Kanof et al reported a decrease in height velocity in 88% of Tanner 1 or 2 patients at the time of diagnosis and before treatment . |
| 3 | They also complained at the release of another man detained with Dalkammoni , Marwant Khreesat , reportedly a Jordanian or West German intelligence agent who was believed to have produced a total of five or six bombs at the time . |
| 4 | Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult . |
| 5 | ( Children saw three , five , or six rods at a time , with different numbers of beads on each . |
| 6 | Baskets for carrying your tackle box , reels , bait , flasks , sandwiches , etc. , and for sitting on , are , I suppose , fine if you fish for only two or three hours at a stretch . |
| 7 | The miller 's day was dictated by the movements of the tides because his source of power would only be available for short periods of two or three hours at a time . |
| 8 | ‘ Until then the most I had done was two or three costumes at a budget of £50 . |
| 9 | Most other atoms can join up comfortably only with one , two , or three others at a time . |
| 10 | And I said I 've bought a box of matches for him to go down and light this fire thinking you know he might need two or three matches at a time . |
| 11 | Yeah , it 's interesting that we talk about single parent families but the two or three people at the beginning talked about erm , the one parent , the father was in actual fact , I know he was actually resident there was probably his his erm interest was non-existent . |
| 12 | If they believe that by cutting the salaries of two or three people at the top of the operation they can pay for all those goodies they are living in cloud cuckoo land . |
| 13 | I used to shop in Shaftesbury Avenue and buy two or three nightdresses at a time . |
| 14 | Such is the cycle of any one burrow ; but , the Baerends discovered , a female may work on two or three burrows at a time . |
| 15 | " Fill your Sillabub pot half full with sider , and good store of sugar , and a little nutmeg , stir it well together , and put in as much cream by two or three spoonfuls at a time , as hard as you can , as though you milk it in ; then stir it together very softly once about , and let it stand two hours before you eat it , for the standing makes it curd . " |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't mind going out there for two or three months at a time but not permanently . ’ |
| 17 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |
| 18 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 19 | Many owners can not stand the thought of their animal going without sustenance for two or three days at a time , but the dog will inevitably eat when it is hungry enough . |
| 20 | Millions visit Czechoslovakia every year but only for two or three days at a time as services are poor . |
| 21 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 22 | Er , the comparable cost for a family of four in this country to go to somewhere like Alton Towers or to Chessington in your own car including the cost of petrol of getting there is of the order of fifty or sixty pounds at the outside . |
| 23 | Ipswich have used the new rolling substitutes rule to their advantage this season but it often means that the first choice players are only off the pitch for five or ten minutes at a time . |
| 24 | When this is your purpose you might use a short sequence for as little as five or ten minutes at the beginning of a lesson . |
| 25 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 26 | Pitch them for 5,000 or 10,000 shares at a time . |
| 27 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 28 | Again , it 's a questin of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 29 | Again , it 's a question of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 30 | I do n't think that I can send you more than four or five canvases at a time because of the cold . |