Example sentences of "in two or [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Things happen fast in a head-on attack and in two or three seconds we had passed directly over them . |
| 2 | Thus a certain brinkmanship has gone on , with a hospital discharging an elderly person home , ostensibly on trial and then refusing to re-admit when in two or three days it is clear the person can not cope . |
| 3 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
| 4 | In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones . |
| 5 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 6 | So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work . |
| 7 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |