Example sentences of "one or [adj] [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it grows older , you will probably have to reduce the frequency of feeds to one or two meals every day . |
| 2 | Many of these small villages have only one or two buses a day . ’ |
| 3 | Children are more susceptible to caffeine than adults and should probably not drink more than one or two colas a day . |
| 4 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 5 | Admittedly in one or two cases the inference is fairly marginal but nevertheless it 's the first time all the numbers have been positive . |
| 6 | But one or two boys every year venture into Greek in preparation for a Classics degree . ’ |
| 7 | Here , during the war , a nursery playgroup met one or two mornings a week . |
| 8 | One or two mornings a week we sail upwind to another beach , basing ourselves on a campsite taverna for the day , and once a fortnight we take a day off . |
| 9 | One or two holidays a year , of a week or fortnight each will not be a problem . |
| 10 | My ideal is just to do one or two things a year with great care and probably as a freelance . |
| 11 | Landau pointed out that there was another possible final state for a star , also with a limiting mass of about one or two times the mass of the sun but much smaller even than a white dwarf . |
| 12 | It is stated that much larger numbers than are named in the Directory retain the insignia of undertakers in their shop-windows , for the sake of the profits of one or two funerals a year . |
| 13 | If you snack between meals ( and most people do ! ) try to limit this to one or two snacks a day if you are trying to lose weight . |
| 14 | Perhaps in one or two places the Trust was too assiduous in its clearance operations , but by 1990 the need for restraint to avoid unnecessary ecological damage was well recognised . |
| 15 | When a Type 2 patient requires insulin , perhaps the first question to ask is ‘ One or two injections a day ? ’ |
| 16 | But there were mistakes and sometimes a wrong tune was precented which did not fit the words , and on one or two occasions the congregation took up a tune of their own which was not intended in my precenting . |
| 17 | ( In the wild , a pair 's capacity to reproduce is limited by the availability of food , and one or two clutches a year is normal . ) |
| 18 | Those are not children who smoke one or two cigarettes a week to prove to their contemporaries that they are older than they are ; if they are boys , they smoke more than 56 cigarettes a week and , if they are girls , more than 49 cigarettes a week . |
| 19 | Part-time students take either one or two courses a year and attend the same daytime classes as full-time students . |
| 20 | There is certainly some evidence that people who drink one or two units a day are less likely to die of heart disease than people who drink no alcohol at all . |
| 21 | The ‘ LIFE ’ centre will initially open for one or two sessions a week and gradually increase as more counsellors complete their training . |
| 22 | After just one or two days a variety of shimp-like organisms appear . |
| 23 | The region 's social work department is appealing for ‘ shared carers ’ who can spend one or two days a month with people who have special needs . |
| 24 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
| 25 | If you have a sympathetic employer and GP you could see whether the person you care for would like to come to work with you but spend one or two days a week on a regular basis in a day centre run by the DHA . |
| 26 | Clearly there is considerable travel within the UK but we would expect you to spend one or two days a week in our offices so you would need to live within a 100 mile radius of Bracknell . |
| 27 | Z2033 remained on display at Duxford in its naval colours until September 1989 when Ken Evans and Herbie Church , two volunteers with the IWM , started work to tidy up the aircraft , working at the outset just one or two days a week . |
| 28 | The clinics operated for short office hours on only one or two days a week and were not staffed to cope with disturbed and upset people who required help in a crisis . |
| 29 | Some tinies will find the pace busy , and will enjoy their evenings better if you pick them up early one or two days a week . |
| 30 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |