Example sentences of "two [noun pl] or [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was for a period of some two months or so in the summer of 1922 a diversion which my mother and aunt enjoyed after the walk . |
| 2 | That night I had a floating flying dream and , hovering in an upright position two feet or so above the ground , I remembered the caller 's problem and immediately found a solution . |
| 3 | ‘ The water level fell by two feet or so during the night , ’ said fisheries officer Keith Fisher . |
| 4 | Requests for copy on graphics or proofing printers which would occupy two columns or less in the dictionary should normally be satisfied within thirty minutes . |
| 5 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 6 | ‘ After Winston had retired , he used to give lunch parties every two weeks or so in the basement of his house in Hyde Park Gate . |
| 7 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 8 | For symptom scores a significant increase was defined as a rise in score of two points or more over the score at euglycaemia , again for two or more consecutive readings . |
| 9 | Two miles or so to the south lies the village of Stockerston , now shrunk almost to a hamlet , with its attractive Perpendicular church standing alone on the hillside — a sure sign of some interesting change in village history . |