Example sentences of "[coord] two [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 2 | I could n't tell you how , but it I , cos you 'd , I do n't want nothing , but when I did , I 'd got ta use my ingenuity to get something that I could get one or two or a dozen or ten off , you know what I mean , and I got ta make it and a lot of times I made it out of wood which was easily er you know treated . |
| 3 | Good lighting , a picture or two or a rug fixed to the end wall will give a whole new lease of life to what could have been a boring dead end . |
| 4 | The image of a perfect Suffolk farmhouse must surely be a pink house , with a gable or two and a tall , intricate , brick chimney , the whole wrapped around by a moat and some venerable trees . |
| 5 | Within two minutes the mob had completely dispersed , with the exception of the odd copper or two and a few stragglers who were loth to leave the scene of all the fun . |
| 6 | Then they were all friends together , but within an hour or two and a pint or two , or three or four , of rough cider or scrumpy , how their personalities changed . |
| 7 | Saying , if I get a farm with cows and sheep and a five-bar gate and chickens and a coop and a metal stream and a few trees about the place and a green field made of billiard cloth and a dog or two and a cat — never mind the cat — and perhaps a fox on a hill … if I get this , with a pair of ball-bearing roller skates so that I can gleam and flash and go backwards through the heavy Friday traffic and be as glamorous as Boy Davids from the Park … |
| 8 | ( Botticker had similarly gone through multiple plate glass windows — real glass , in fact , primed with explosive charges , not plastic ones — with no more than a cut or two and a designer-plaster . ) |
| 9 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 10 | He deduced that carbon had a combining power ( valency ) of four or two and a unique capacity for joining itself to other atoms of its own kind , the secret of the existence of millions of organic ( carbon ) compounds . |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 12 | erm the the order which one , one I concern , maybe we can discuss if to , if , if the defendants were prepared to undertake to erm provide any as to instruct within twenty eight days from today , the matter should be list on and this convention on a Friday , Friday in about two or two and a half month 's time from now , which will take us in the next term , I , I beg a suggestion |
| 13 | MOST people enjoy a tipple or two and a little of what you fancy does n't do you any harm . |
| 14 | Yeah but I 'm going to keep the two pictures and a five and then you had to put two twos in or two and a six or |
| 15 | You can actually get stronger as you go along on all the benefits so instead of selling one benefit , you could sell them a multitude of benefits because it means that if you 're with a customer two hours or two and a half hours , instead of spending ninety percent of the time , chatting along , you , you 'll not argue about , you follow me , I 've stopped selling benefits , but I used to sell them brillian brilliantly , in other words you get , gives you a bit of meat |
| 16 | They get typically twice or two and a half times the salaries that our people get and that 's being going on for a very long time . |
| 17 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 18 | They are all proud to be Horse Rangers and the demand to join is so high that there is a waiting list of four years for junior members ( known as Ponies ) aged seven to ten years , and two and a half years for seniors , aged ten and over . |
| 19 | The 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act states that anyone jailed for between six months and two and a half years has their conviction wiped out after 10 years . |
| 20 | We are half an hour from Cardiff and two and a half hours from London along the M4 . |
| 21 | Since the war , the speeches have tended to last between 90 minutes and two and a half hours . |
| 22 | One such vessel , the masterpiece of archaic metal-work , is a prodigious volute-krater ( the shape of the François vase but two and a half times as high ) found in the grave of a Gaulish princess at Vix on the upper Seine ( fig. 58 ) . |
| 23 | But two and a half years later he was front page news . |