Example sentences of "[conj] two [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 2 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 3 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 4 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 5 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 6 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 7 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 8 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 9 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 10 | Sir Hector was also confident that settlement will be reached on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ‘ within a month or two when the Clinton administration has settled down . ’ |
| 11 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |
| 12 | At that instant control called to announce that there was an Air Raid warning and put out all the lights , followed immediately by bombs exploding on the airfield , I knew the airfield well and I stuck to my heading and switched on my landing light just to " feel " the ground , landed and rolled along until I felt a sharp jerk and a bash or two then a complete halt . |
| 13 | We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ] |
| 14 | A couple of grand prix wins came in 1963 and two more the following year before another highly successful season in 1965 saw three victories and a string of second places for Jackie Stewart and Hill . |