Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 2 | Forty or fifty a day , three gallons of beer , drop dead one of these days — " |
| 3 | Forty or fifty a week the Dynmouth woman 's paid . " |
| 4 | The coaching stock was six or eight a side compartment type with sliding top lights , it was warm in the carriage by the time the tunnel was reached , so a top light was opened . |
| 5 | On the roll of a 1 or 2 the staff has run out of energy and will not work for the remainder of the battle . |
| 6 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 7 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 8 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 9 | I was making two or three a year and was feeling worse and worse . |
| 10 | Which means my overseas trips will be reduced to two or three a year . |
| 11 | Even now , two or three a day is all she needs . |
| 12 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 13 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 14 | She began to get up at two or three every morning , and was in church most of the day , often sobbing ‘ boisterously ’ , and making a great outcry for her sins . |
| 15 | Yeah , but they 're out of are n't they cos they 're saying out from eight to eight sort of time , or sixteen a week are n't they , because of the competition with them all . |
| 16 | One operator justifies the absence of a doctor by saying ‘ we get these cases nine or ten a night . |
| 17 | As few as 2 or 3 a year opt for this method of preserving the memory of a devoted pet . |
| 18 | The subscription was 5/- a year if paid in one sum or 1/6 a quarter but all persons under 20 years of age one shilling quarterly , for which they received a signed ticket of admission and also had the privilege of introducing a lady to the free lectures , the members themselves were admitted ( at half price ) to lectures where a charge was made . |
| 19 | By the age of thirty or thirty-five a woman is old and exhausted , her body bloated , her face showing the pain and suffering of her life . |
| 20 | Moreover , it was a scarcely a trifle or a thing easy to get , for Mulgrave 's predecessor in office , Lord Chatham , had a list of 165 candidates with vacancies for only sixteen or seventeen a year . |
| 21 | In the spaciousness of a large chamber they may make only four or five a second , but as they approach the rock walls and need to know exactly where they are in order not to crash into them , they increase the speed of the clicks until they are emitting as many as twenty a second and the sound becomes , to our ears , an almost continuous rattle . |
| 22 | When you only used to do four or five a year — never mind five in one weekend . |
| 23 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 24 | PAGES 8 & 9 The Saint & Greavsie Show |
| 25 | We have already noted that she would have started as a reading girl , at 4s or 5s a week , before learning the lay of the type case and eventually starting work setting type . |
| 26 | The second consequence was to limit the number of executions by the early 1960s to no more than three or four a year , so bringing nearer the prospect of total abolition by the classic , if inglorious , means of English penal reform : diminution , disuse , abandonment . |
| 27 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 28 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 29 | Three or four a day . |
| 30 | Spectra-Physics of California is delivering 150 carbon dioxide lasers , each capable of delivering 1–2 kW , at a rate of three or four a month to a Japanese industrial equipment firm , Amada . |