Example sentences of "or [num] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stress laid on the new Festival of Purification of the Temple favours a date in the late second century B.C. In other words , I am inclined to put both I and II Maccabees in the last decades of the second century B.C. , about forty or fifty years after the death of Antiochus IV in 164 B.C. The two main Jewish sources were written when Judaea had become an independent and expansionist state . |
| 2 | She said thought , she 'll only only let it out about six or eight times through the year ! |
| 3 | One presumes and hopes that the Chief Whip informed the Prime Minister , as he was requested to do , that seven or eight members of the Cabinet were opposed to the choice of Home . |
| 4 | Leaving the town by the road that runs along the left bank of the Gave , you come after seven or eight miles on the left to the D25 , marked for Mauléon . |
| 5 | It will be possible to divert the A forty traffic away from the Green Road Roundabout along the M forty extension out to Wendlebury and then back down the new dual carriageway A forty three to rejoin the A forty near to Pear Tree , and that can be done from January ninety ninety one without waiting another seven or eight years for a Barton by-pass . |
| 6 | Seven or eight years into the experiment , this can not , as yet , be verified . |
| 7 | It would be more accurate to say that very few spent less than seven or eight years in the trade , the majority spent at least 10–12 years , while about a fifth remained in the trade for life . |
| 8 | We , we kept on er making or doing repairs for the Ministry of Works for about ooh seven or eight years after the war finished , which kept a lot of men working in Galashiels when we , you know , when they were n't very sure if they could come back to their old jobs . |
| 9 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 10 | I remember seeing his ball disappear into what I thought was sand dunes left , but he 'd hit a woman on the head and nearly killed her , and his ball had flown back 60 or 70 yards into the fairway . |
| 11 | This can be anything from five pages on someone like Dame Edna Everage — because she 's a fictional person ( or did n't you know ? ) to thirty or forty pages for the Elizabeth Taylors of the world . |
| 12 | ‘ If such an experiment were successful , I would n't care to be within thirty or forty miles at the time . ’ |
| 13 | In the first thirty or forty years after the destruction of the Persian Empire , Greek philosophers and historians discovered the Jews . |
| 14 | Only the faintest streaks of light were brightening the sky to the east , and by the time the two coolies had gone thirty or forty yards into the jungle , the overseer was lost to sight . |
| 15 | An agreement would normally embrace a number of interest rate renewal periods of three , six , nine or 12 months over a total of two years . |
| 16 | Under RSC , Ord 65 , r 7 , if service is effected after 4 pm on a weekday or 12 noon on a Saturday , service is deemed to have been effected the next day or on Monday as the case may be . |
| 17 | Service after 4 pm on a weekday or 12 noon on a Saturday is deemed to have taken place on the following day or on Monday as the case may be ( RSC , Ord 65 , r 7 ) . |
| 18 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 19 | ‘ I was very impressed with the way he played , but then I realised how daunting it was that there were 20 or 30 guys on the Tour playing better than him , ’ he says . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The probability that one word in a sentence in one language corresponds to 0 , 1 or 2 words in the translation is calculated . |
| 22 | It involves five or six visits to a clinic or hospital for key investigations which include blood tests , semen analysis , an ultrasound examination and a minor operation to check that the woman 's tubes are clear . |
| 23 | Back in my day we often used to have five or six wingers on the field at once . |
| 24 | Reminiscing from the autumn of his mid-twenties , he told Louise Colet that ‘ the greatest events of my life have been a few thoughts , reading , certain sunsets by the sea at Trouville , and conversations of five or six hours on the trot with a friend [ Alfred k Poittevin ] who is now married and lost to me . ’ |
| 25 | She normally emerged every five or six hours for a hunting trip of about half an hour , returning to the den with eels . |
| 26 | Now could you get together and spend five or six minutes as a group , having a look at the other group 's presentation and could you please make a note |
| 27 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 28 | On the other hand the man is five or six feet above the hillside and can see all round . |
| 29 | The closest iron hoop is five or six feet from the edge . |
| 30 | 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 . |