Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [num] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the then Education Secretary Keith Joseph 's almost instant equivocations , the recommendations of the Report did give some legitimacy and impetus to local education authorities ( LEAs ) and schools already tentatively and sometimes vigorously pursuing one or another variety of multicultural or antiracist policy . |
| 2 | It was taller than a man , and big enough to accommodate four or five people inside . |
| 3 | the the original , the first weight gain , the first week ten days is bad enough you only gain two or three pounds but it 's all going round your tummy |
| 4 | And you 'll end up maybe only using one or two and you should be using ten , and you must go in a silence trap , that is so , so important |
| 5 | After an hour , boredom has set in : the quick learners are impatient with those who ca n't follow , while the older women mechanically repeat five or six words in succession after the others , without even looking at their books . |
| 6 | " Still , we 'd better make one or two scrapes , do n't you think ? " said Hazel . |
| 7 | Yeah , three hundred , now today you only got hundred and thirty because they the manual work . |
| 8 | Well he only got four or five pounds worth did n't he ? |
| 9 | Perhaps bring four or five pigs home from Wicken , every Monday . |
| 10 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 11 | ‘ But it only needs one or two players to malfunction and we 'll be in trouble . |
| 12 | Him and Mr he was another butcher , he was a wholesaler , and he used to perhaps buy twenty or thirty between them and we used to drive them home from Upware and split them . |
| 13 | You can either cut this stem away , as you would at pruning or after flowering , or , if you are only budding one or two , take a bud and leave the stem standing . |
| 14 | We checked out hundreds of hotels but only found thirty-five or forty that met the basic-facilities criteria . |
| 15 | If you are using a full 24 bit colour photo-retouching or vector graphics drawing program on a system which can only display 16 or 256 colours Windows will attempt to represent all the screen colours required . |
| 16 | Also bear in mind that if you want to make some authentic-looking rose buds , each one will only need three or four petals , so several buds can be made from one flower . |
| 17 | But I 've only seen one or two , can we think about photocopying them if it 's that thin , because by the time it gets to me sometimes it 's not legible . |
| 18 | So long came 1922 and another difficult year . |
| 19 | Marlon Brando , in The Godfather ( 1972 ) , amiably declined to have the patience for such five-hour make-ups : an hour and a quarter was his maximum , but then he was only ageing 20 or 25 years , not 90 . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 21 | A good melon should feel heavy for its size , so hold two or three and go for the heaviest . |
| 22 | Shurin , who beat world number five Neal Foulds 4-1 in the last round , came from 2-0 down to lead 3-2 and 4-3 . |
| 23 | I 've only bought three or four presents |
| 24 | If we 've only got two or three in each home empty , where are the people going to ? |
| 25 | All I would say to you is that the very small primary schools I not only have to doubt the financial viability , but I personally sometimes would doubt that the National Curriculum can be delivered to a school where you 've got an age range between five and eleven and you 've only got thirty or forty children , and that is a personal point of view , which I have , erm having seen many of our schools , and I believe that the problems that some of our large urban schools have , with thirty to a class packed in , is also something we should address and give careful thought to when we are resourcing education . |
| 26 | We phoned up T T G and Travel Weekly and they 've only got five or six names on on each list |
| 27 | Apart from where we 've only got one or two |
| 28 | No I 've only got three and half thousand at the moment . |
| 29 | This will give coverage to an activity taking place at the school but may only feature one or two children . |
| 30 | I , I have I 've only had threes and fours , you know I 've got ta get rolling yet . |