Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] two [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | It is best to arrive an hour or two before the light grows dim . |
| 3 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since the war , the speeches have tended to last between 90 minutes and two and a half hours . |
| 8 | We are half an hour from Cardiff and two and a half hours from London along the M4 . |
| 9 | It was only a moment or two before a couple of cars came up the hill and screeched into the side of the road . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Two or three maggots on a small hook lying on clean sand may only require an indication of an inch or two before the strike can be made . |
| 12 | Add the chopped spinach and mint and bubble for a minute or two until the spinach is soft . |
| 13 | Add the chopped spinach and mint and bubble for a minute or two until the spinach is soft . |
| 14 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 15 | A day or two before the crime was to take place , the Apparition of Our Lady shone forth , changing bitterness to religious awe and causing the Ribbonmen publicly to repent . |
| 16 | The upgrading should give Japan a decade or two before the big problems of an old workforce have to be faced . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | The conclusion is that perhaps the Magharba , in the month or two before the report appeared , may have demanded bloodwealth from the government , or ( only slightly less plausible ) from the al-Qadhadhfa — the tribe to the east of Sirte , providing the command of the garrison there . |
| 20 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 21 | Plans were submitted within a month or two and the estimated cost of the building was £3500 . |
| 22 | The old man would often not recognize him , and at the most answered with a phrase or two or a grunt . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | MOST people enjoy a tipple or two and a little of what you fancy does n't do you any harm . |
| 25 | The important parameters were eventually located in the installation guide which came with the harddisk — a little logic mixed with an educated guess or two provided the other figures and the project was complete . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | There are towns and cities along our route which boast the best ale houses in the land , and whilst we can not linger we can , I am sure , find the time to slake a thirst or two that the ice and snow have worked up in us . |