Example sentences of "[noun] or two [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
2 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
3 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
4 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
5 | One more pair of hands for an hour or two a week can be a godsend for this very worthwhile and rewarding ‘ back bone ’ work . |
6 | If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer . |
7 | During the first two weeks on the Scarsdale Medical Diet , you will be delighted and encouraged by rapid weight loss , actually seeing on the scale that pounds are dropping off day by day ( not that discouraging pound or two a week ) . |
8 | But his cash income of 80 yuan a month , even when supplemented by the sale of a pig or two a year , gives the family a yearly cash income of no more than 1,500 yuan . |
9 | But at the same time it is occasionally so terribly easy to rob a fellow human being of his life : a slight nudge , let us say , from a car-bumper , and a cyclist is knocked down and hits his head against the road and in a second or two a life has gone . |
10 | For a second or two the expression of the Annamese.camp " boy " hardened as he stared at his employer , then he moved away from the peephole and began to busy himself cleaning the pots and pans that had been used to prepare the meal . |
11 | For a second or two the moon escapes from behind the rushing clouds casting silvery shadows on the ruined abbey . |
12 | First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open . |
13 | Perhaps in a minute or two the door would open again and there would be … who ? |
14 | something which they may have saved for themselves or perhaps by doing an odd job here and there , and working a day or two a week , which will not make too great demands on their strength , but will just keep the household going . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ 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 . |
17 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
18 | Mental disturbance requiring such security is often short-lived and within a week or two the person may be well enough to enjoy the normal freedoms accorded other patients . |
19 | It was rather extensive at first and consequence of being and a necessity of taking in clothes of all the paupers who , with , which on a , on a waste of after a week or two the number of the workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers and the board were in , were in and then in which the boys got back , were , were a large was a cop was a copper at one end , after which the master dressed in an apron and assisted by one or two women and they ladled the gruel at meal times . |
20 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
21 | By the way , why ca n't we have a tournament or two every year up here in the North ? |
22 | After a month or two the backache had eased , leaving me with sciatica . |
23 | After a year or two the child 's family placement worker will begin the search for a new family . |
24 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
25 | Lyndon Johnson 's searing complaints against the British have been much quoted , yet for the first year or two the president was not insensitive to the political realities in London . |
26 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
27 | After another step or two the man stopped and turned round to speak to the parson . |