Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] or [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the characterization is effected by the recitative , which varies from the driest quick quasi-parlando — Monteverdi sometimes writes only a single sustained note to carry eight or nine syllables — to actual melody , with every nuance between and naturally plenty of scope for his stile concitato . |
| 2 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 3 | Much of what is now recognised as social work did not exist 30 or 40 years ago , and what did — child care work , work with mentally ill people and some other matters — was practised on a much smaller scale , away from the glare of the media . |
| 4 | Each apartment sleeps 2 or 3 people , and are highly recommended . |
| 5 | EAT 2 OR 3 TIMES A WEEK |
| 6 | The patients whom I find most tragic are those who come for help in dealing with abuse which occurred fifty or sixty years ago , and which has often crippled them mentally and emotionally ever since . |
| 7 | He discharged eight or ten bullets in three bursts of fire . |
| 8 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 9 | I scribbled 2 or 3 lines to my friend saying I was sorry circumstances had arisen to prevent my meeting him , sent the note off to my groom , and went on reading the ms . |
| 10 | The inhibitory effect of TPA was the same whether it was added 30 or 10 minutes before challenge with histamine at 20°C , but TPA was ineffective if added at the same time as histamine ( Fig 3 ) . |
| 11 | Choose the resort and board arrangement you want and decide whether you want 7 or 14 nights , then leave the exact choice of apartment or hotel to us . |
| 12 | Schools typically send three or four staff to one or two of these events and these are met or accompanied by the appropriate DCSL . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the other hand , infant mortality may in fact be higher in those countries when the mother has 1–3 or 4–6 years of schooling than if she has none . |
| 15 | As Sir John Simon put it in the Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the City of London 1849–50 , ‘ It is no uncommon thing , in a room of twelve foot square or less , to find three or four families styed together … in the promiscuous intimacy of cattle . ’ |
| 16 | Normally their undergraduate courses occupy three or four years of full-time study — though this does not apply to the Open University ( OU ) , whose students are part-time , or to the independent University of Buckingham , whose first-degree courses last two years . |
| 17 | So somewhere there 's a big party and o or somebody who wants three or four crackers and put their own gifts in . |
| 18 | He sees his trade once a week or once in two weeks , and covers three or four towns in a day . |
| 19 | DNase I footprinting and various physical studies suggest that bleomycin covers three or four base pairs on DNA [ 10,11,13 ] . |
| 20 | I had surreptitiously to do major rewrites three or four weeks before shooting , which was a bit ridiculous , but I felt I had to . |
| 21 | The point , however , is not to lament over the once great dace swims which have changed for the worse , but to think in the opposite way — that some of the swims you tried three or four seasons ago without any success may now have turned into ones where dace congregate . |
| 22 | Such a right would give a monopoly in the program , thus protecting the underlying ideas more effectively than copyright , but the right would last for a shorter period than a patent , say 5 or 7 years maximum . |
| 23 | Put some treacle and syrup into the prepared basin , say 5 or 6 tbsp of each — do n't stint — and stir gently to mix . |
| 24 | It should be noted that this does not include 18 or 19 year olds undertaking a full time course in further education ( eg A levels , BTEC etc. ) who qualify for an exemption . |
| 25 | We are pleased to offer a Two Centre holiday incorporating 3 or 4 nights in Prague ( depending on the date of departure ) with the remainder of the holiday spent in Brno . |
| 26 | They may well crack altogether if Blackburn could win 3 or 4 games on the trot . |
| 27 | ‘ But it only needs one or two players to malfunction and we 'll be in trouble . |
| 28 | Good runner ; needs one or Two repairs ; a few grey hairs but Nothing a respray could n't fix Would like a 1966 five-speed turbo In exchange : something in the sporty Twin-carb range . |
| 29 | Yes , I think it 's a small enough town for people to get to know who their representatives are , to get to know each other , to get to know who runs which societies and organisations in the town , and that creates a sort of an area of erm communal feeling that you do n't get in a place that 's say five or six times as big . |
| 30 | By about nine o'clock right my mate would have say five or six pints inside him and I 'd have two pints sat there on the fucking table . |