Example sentences of "more than a [noun sg] or two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had they no documents going back more than a century or two , but much of what they ‘ knew ’ was merely myth and legend . |
| 2 | The temperature rise is often no more than a degree or two . |
| 3 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 4 | As a rough guide , if a fever persists more than a day or two in a child under 2 years then consider seeking advice . |
| 5 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 6 | Trainee dealers put on debt collecting for more than a day or two at a stretch would often walk out of Harvard from sheer boredom and frustration . |
| 7 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 8 | Relatively few individuals survive to become adults and most of these seldom live more than a year or two . |
| 9 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 10 | Little wonder that few of them , over the past decade , have lasted for more than a year or two . |
| 11 | Away he goes Lawrence again to the right-handed and that 's short on the back foot plays it down with a dead bat , ball bounces little more than a yard or two . |
| 12 | Sufferers and families need to be able to walk to the main services in their neighbourhood or to catch a bus into a local centre no more than a mile or two away . |
| 13 | Besides , he 'd never be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two . |
| 14 | There were walls , no more than a pace or two either side of him . |
| 15 | Some struggled against her , but few held out for more than a moment or two . |
| 16 | Lucky Jim as an over-night visitor drunkenly burning his host 's sheets with his cigarette-ends , and desperately trying to disguise the damage with a pair of scissors , is farcical in a Wodehouse sort of way , though the social rank of the characters is down more than a notch or two . |
| 17 | Powershift is going to put him down more than a notch or two in the meantime . |
| 18 | And someone else might catch it and get much more than a spot or two , so you see , you must be public-spirited about this . |
| 19 | The desktop systems simply do not possess the storage capacity or speed required to manipulate colour documents of more than a page or two , let alone have the operator skills . |
| 20 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 21 | ‘ How will you ever meet a prospective father for your children if you 're never in one place for more than a week or two ? ’ |
| 22 | After I come back to take over the club again , you wo n't be in it for more than a week or two at a time . ’ |
| 23 | So I put very little energy into my criminal case partly because I did n't think I would go to prison , and certainly not for more than a month or two . |
| 24 | This may mean they have been going together for as little time as a few weeks , and a relationship of more than a month or two may be regarded as serious . |
| 25 | Hardly enough to keep a man alive for more than a month or two . |