Example sentences of "four or [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Winston Churchill , when he was a young officer in India , read for four or five hours a day , developing his knowledge and love of English . |
| 2 | The automatic clothes dryer does not save a woman the four or five hours a week she used to spend at the clothes line , if , for instance , she runs her washing machine and dryer every day … |
| 3 | had me up having four or five pints a day you know |
| 4 | It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time . |
| 5 | You can also filter four or five times a day . ’ |
| 6 | It is important to find time for relaxation and generally winding down but also it may be helpful to ‘ rebreathe ’ four or five times a day to counteract any blowing off of carbon dioxide which may have occurred . |
| 7 | I do the toilets four or five times a day . |
| 8 | Cabinet Minister David Mellor managed to score four or five times a night , depending on which paper you read , wearing a Chelsea soccer strip . |
| 9 | In corners of rural Scotland the lord lieutenant may only be required to turn out four or five times a year , but in densely populated industrial areas like the West Midlands , Charles Ian Finch-Knightley , the eleventh Earl of Aylesford , may be performing several times a month . |
| 10 | There are n't two days go by though when I do n't think of him , because there was a time when we 'd play tennis four or five times a year . |
| 11 | ‘ Business-unit planning councils ’ bring together the top managers of strategic business units and the local presidents and top officials of the unions , perhaps four or five times a year . |
| 12 | Four or five times a week 12% |
| 13 | Garth Crooks , in a similar way , admitted that he needed no prompting to play competitive soccer four or five times a week when aged 14 and 15 . |
| 14 | Friends tell me that this could seriously hamper my chances of joining Athletico , as it is rumoured your club is just an excuse for getting smashed four or five times a week . |
| 15 | Such ministers were to preach the gospel ( as Brayne did four or five times a week ) , but should not administer the sacraments . |
| 16 | steel , which is four or five times the strength of the steels in common use . |
| 17 | For example , the average frequency of bingeing fell from four or five time a week to once a fortnight at the twelfth session . |
| 18 | He says if it 's not cut down it literally chokes the jungle and so every four or five years the mangrove is cut and then it grows again like a blackthorn or hawthorn hedge would grow . |
| 19 | Four or five outfits a day , the spoilt bitch . |