Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the kind of exploit he might well claim after a drink or two , expecting his audience first to gasp , then to roar with laughter . |
| 2 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 3 | The hope is that they occur infrequently and that most would be eliminated after a word or two by mismatches to the acoustic input . |
| 4 | After a minute or two the Asian suddenly slid out from the side of the big curtains and then stopped , a tray of drinks and ice creams round his neck . |
| 5 | After a minute or two , they just walked away in disgust . |
| 6 | Endill did not hear anything at first but after a minute or two heard what he thought was a cough in the distance . |
| 7 | After a minute or two , the vehicle drew up and Manfred and Gloria , a German architect and his wife , jumped out . |
| 8 | Miriam Durkin asked after a minute or two had passed . |
| 9 | After a minute or two Crane appeared leading a horse by a broken rein . |
| 10 | After a minute or two I was sick again . |
| 11 | Standing outside in the gloom of the area she said , quite naturally , " You go ahead , dear , and I 'll follow you after a minute or two . |
| 12 | She watched carefully , and after a minute or two she saw that the thing was a grin . |
| 13 | After a minute or two she understood what it was . |
| 14 | In the Airds ' duplex apartment I hung my raincoat over Tessa 's second mink with a malign hope that it would drip , which involved me in turning in my tracks after a minute or two to take the gesture back . |
| 15 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 16 | After a minute or two I follow her through the door . |
| 17 | After a minute or two I felt well enough to resume the climb , all the time now focusing my imagination on her waiting , sad but hopeful , in the Wheel Room , in her box made of Bibles . |
| 18 | After a minute or two he made a wide turn and flew towards me once again . |
| 19 | After a minute or two Rain replaced the receiver . |
| 20 | She went away , and after a minute or two he got up from his bed and went to the window . |
| 21 | Even flying toasters get boring after a minute or two . |
| 22 | She tried to look uninterested as she watched him go up to Helen and Edward , but when , after a minute or two , he turned and walked purposefully towards her , she knew a moment of near-panic . |
| 23 | Jill withdrew and after a sip or two of tea I began . |
| 24 | Well , perhaps only after a pint or 2 of the extra strong Kingsdown . |
| 25 | After a day or two , the owner became irked , and went to the airport to inspect his plane . |
| 26 | Once these images must have excited lust — enough to make someone take the trouble to cut them out and stick them up on the wall ; but after a day or two , or a week or two , the pictures had ceased to arouse , they had become familiar — faded and tattered and oil-stained , almost indistinguishable from the dirt and debris of the rest of the factory . |
| 27 | Sneezing and fluent , bland coryza ; the mucous membranes of the nose may be swollen and after a day or two the coryza may extend to the larynx with a hard cough . |
| 28 | Our visitor had little knowledge of the passions or indeed the psychology of small boys , for he casually admitted after a day or two that he had inscribed the Master 's name on the bat himself ! |
| 29 | ‘ Of course , ’ Robin-Anne went on , ‘ the brain eventually manufactures more dopamine , so after a day or two the cocaine can work again , and you go soaring up from hell into heaven . |
| 30 | While I am not suggesting that you immediately dismantle an arrangement of flowers , perhaps after a day or two you could carefully remove a leaf or two , and a few flowers . |