Example sentences of "or [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one of the machine-guns opened up , hurling five or six of the prisoners against the wall , flinging their limbs around as if they were scarecrows and as they fell in a heap that was what they were . |
| 2 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 3 | The response was excellent ; quite a few regionals published the recipe itself and two or three of the writers on the nationals featured that vegetable in their own favourite recipes . |
| 4 | It would be unlikely if in any more than two or three of the companies to be bought out there were rival bids from within the existing management and work force . |
| 5 | However , by section 10 of the Employment Act 1988 the immunity is withdrawn where the reason or one of the reasons for which the act is done is the fact or belief that the employer is employing non-union labour . |
| 6 | At one stage in her career , it had seemed you could n't open up a rock paper or one of the tabloids without seeing her tumbling golden mane and her lazy catlike smile captured by one of the many photographers who seemed to dog her every step . |
| 7 | That is to say , as a result of sexual intercourse or one of the variants of sexual behaviour , such as fellatio , cunnilingus , or rectal intercourse . |
| 8 | Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition . |
| 9 | She had fervently hoped to be taken to the sergeant with the kindly expression and ruddy cheeks , or one of the men in the trailer , but it was not to be . |
| 10 | The registered office of a recognised body shall be in England and Wales and at the place of business or one of the places of business of the body . |
| 11 | Radiolabelled DNA fragments were first preincubated for 5 min at 37°C in the presence or absence of NCp7 or one of the mutants in buffer containing 30 mM Tris-Cl ( pH 7.5 ) , 60 mM NaCl and 0.2 mM MgCl 2 . |
| 12 | that the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation was not the purpose or one of the purposes for which the transfer or associated operations or any of them were effected ; or 2. that the transfer and any associated operations were bona fide commercial transactions and were not designed for the purpose of avoiding liability to taxation ( s741 ) . |
| 13 | I 've had one she said and three or four of the girls at the office |
| 14 | Having emigrated from Germany with most of her school some five years earlier , she and her team of staff and older children knew a thing or two about the traumas of young people settling in a strange country . |
| 15 | She gave him a little push and , in a daze , he followed Dorothy and one or two of the others up the stairs to the room that had been and still seemed to be Bunty 's . |
| 16 | And the real Jockey Club was there , I saw , in the person of Bill Baudelaire , who was known to one or two of the owners with whom he was chatting . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid on more than one occasion , she 's had one or two of the girls in tears . |
| 18 | Despite the length of one or two of the contributions of Labour Members , I do not think that they matched the significance of other speeches . |
| 19 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 20 | One or two of the items of growth particularly have been er identified as illustrative which may mean that you can choose er almost any amount you like er to be spent on those particular items just identify er a figure which you may consider the starting point . |
| 21 | erm there were some erm secondary technical erm facilities of course at one or two of the schools before the war . |
| 22 | Can I just , Lord Mayor , point to one or two of the inequalities with the present L M S scheme , and in particular the average national teacher costs ? |
| 23 | He liked them to try one or two of the classics of Christian writing . |
| 24 | One or two of the long-haulers in Munich who are erm |
| 25 | They too were a family of skilled craftsmen and , like so many of the first two generations of South Wales industrial settlers , retained a small interest in country matters , raising pigs and often keeping a pony or two on the outskirts of their villages . |
| 26 | The French Corps des Galères was suppressed in 1748 ; and by the time of the French Revolution , except for the few maintained by the Spanish fleet and one or two in the navies of the small Italian States , galleys had disappeared from the sea which they had so long dominated . |
| 27 | There are women of 18 or 19 with the bones of an 80-year-old . ’ |