Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Seven or eight miles I should think . |
2 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
5 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
6 | Now he , he had about he about seven or eight kids I think , he must have done , yeah . |
7 | Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses . |
8 | When a team loses five or six games it is too easy to accept another defeat . |
9 | 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 |
10 | And er he was there er two blokes had to get come get chains and get him out of it and all that and here was n't a scratch on him but erm he was off for about five or six months you know he had ee ee this brain tests and everything , the shock had er he was quite bad for some time . |
11 | slag on it maybe er five or six years you get a heavy dose of slag . |
12 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
13 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
14 | We , we , it 's fairly clear that the manual gears is virtually , within five or six years it 's going to be very , very , very small . |
15 | This is about five or six receptionists I said it to and they said : ‘ Oh , no . |
16 | They would come see perhaps for two or three weekends you know . |
17 | Every two or three minutes he stops and speaks with the crowd . |
18 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
19 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
20 | Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone |
21 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
22 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | So I 've just made a note , the next C S N T , I 'll in the report back from the staff consultative committee , there 's two or three things we need |
25 | If you listen carefully , over two or three interviews you may build up an understanding of the themes and patterns of what the person is trying to say , through watching out for repetition . |
26 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
27 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
28 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
29 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
30 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |