Example sentences of "[conj] three [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | They would come see perhaps for two or three weekends you know . |
2 | Every two or three minutes he stops and speaks with the crowd . |
3 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
4 | Just sort of you could reasonable expect them to baby sit two or three times you know . |
5 | Because I think he 's in a room above you , but two or three times she heard er the wireless that er someone |
6 | Two or three times I fell down when I was wearing it , that was outside in the market place . |
7 | If I do that two or three times I can make about half the cost of the room per day at the hotel — honestly . ’ |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
16 | In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones . |
17 | But apparently smut has never been far away , and in recent years when some crops have been grown from home saved seed which has had no treatment , after two or three years it has appeared with devastating effect . |
18 | 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 . ’ |
19 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
20 | 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 |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
23 | Things happen fast in a head-on attack and in two or three seconds we had passed directly over them . |
24 | Every two or three yards she was accosted , ‘ Signora ! |
25 | In Miss Weeton 's Journal of a Governess , she writes on 15th September 1810 : ‘ I would have introduced you to Mr. Green , who keeps an exhibition of drawings ( all his own ) in that village where you might have been amused for two or three hours-for he has a great number , two rooms being kept open for the purpose . |
26 | As you can imagine , I did n't do much sleeping the first two or three nights I was there . |
27 | After a gap of two or three months we moved on to Chris Kinsey , who 's done the last six or seven Stones albums among other things . |
28 | Erm within the last two or three months I think they 've appointed three or four non-executive directors . |
29 | Then after two or three months she had had enough so she did n't give her pay packet in at all . |
30 | As women do , she probably knew that she had made an impression on him on the two or three occasions they had met at Muthaiga . |