Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun pl] i " in BNC.

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1 Seven or eight miles I should think .
2 For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation .
3 Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think .
4 Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah .
5 No , an oak table and an oak sideboard and that was all and just four chairs or six chairs I think it was , yes , er and it was erm that furniture was a utility , er I 'd forgotten about that , it 's taken me back now , that was a utility dining room suite of really first class quality , it was a tallish sideboard with two doors with big bow legs and a square table , erm , but it was solid oak really good
6 This is about five or six receptionists I said it to and they said : ‘ Oh , no .
7 Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place .
8 If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’
9 My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately .
10 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 . ’
11 Except the first two or three years I was here .
12 Yeah having worked in newspapers er for two or three years I n I now know that the er what you look , well I did n't look for cos I was on the business page , what people look for is a good story and it does n't
13 And this last two or three years I 've s I 've become to realize that how important acting and performing is to me , and h how much more there is to do in it .
14 As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there .
15 Erm within the last two or three months I think they 've appointed three or four non-executive directors .
16 Course saying in another two or three weeks I 'll maybe not .
17 I would like to know erm the two or three buildings I er it may be difficult at this time but how many residents will be in each building ?
18 The worst thing about the job is dealing with bureaucracy while the best thing is the two or three days I spend each week out on the hill getting my hands dirty , visiting worksites and clients .
19 During the next two or three days I noticed one of the remaining young fish was being chased around the tank by an older Harlequin , which had been in the aquarium for a few years .
20 After two or three days I started picking up .
21 For two or three days I stayed there in a commercial travellers ’ hotel .
22 After two or three days I bought the landlord a carafe of his own wine — the mean-mouthed varlet picked a costly , unsealed jar , not the usual watery vinegar he served most of his customers — and asked him about Selkirk .
23 Many releasings are really re-releasings , that is owls from broken homes , like the first pair , or injured owls I 've nursed back to health and paired up .
24 it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think .
25 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 .
26 ‘ David was out of the room for — I do n't know , ten or fifteen minutes I suppose . ’
27 Whether it 's gon na take two years or twelve months I do n't know .
28 I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years
29 Last season it seemed as though Fairclough was one of those being blamed for the porous Leeds defence ( without the benefit of TV or live matches I 'm going entirely on what I read ) , and was one of the players stuck with a for sale sign at the end of the season by Wilko .
30 In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing .
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