Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It started nineteen seventy one or seventy two , it must have been , when my predecessor and I were sat down , and we said what about a band , they all said , what band , well let's have a band , and and it started just like that , and we , we managed to get the whole of the brigade alerted to it , and we had a meeting at headquarters , to which about forty or fifty people turned up , of which two had probably blown a an instrument in the past , and there was enough enthusiasm to learn and we had a , a chap who was a musical teacher in town who was would happily teach our people you see and so we went out , we had a penny , with no help from the authority or anybody else and we got every type of brass instrument for a band on tick and we said we 'd pay for it , and er |
| 2 | The former lists seven or eight subformations made up of algae , lichens and mosses in varying combinations ; the latter includes only one subformation , involving the two antarctic flowering plants , the grass Deschampsia antarctica and the pink or pearlwort Colobanthus quitensis . |
| 3 | I I do n't agree with another half a dozen or eight cars coming out of that . |
| 4 | — and thirty or forty people walked out . |
| 5 | Now that 's unusual , because for the last five or six budgets have always been Labour/Liberal Democrat budgets . |
| 6 | Response assessed by the acute fall in CCa showed the difference between day 0 and day 6 or 7 CCa correlated significantly with TmC and TmCa:Na ( p=0.02 and p=0.03 respectively ) . |
| 7 | And er then I would see the two two or three cleaners coming out and going on to the coach and cleaning them , and I would say to them , What are they for ? |
| 8 | She remembered the dozens and dozens of exercise books with two or three pages written on and the rest left virgin , the textbooks defaced by doodles , the waste . |
| 9 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 10 | We spent two or three hours bagging up clothes to take to the charity shops . |
| 11 | She 's been going out with him two or three year has n't she June ? |
| 12 | When Thomas Hardy was given the freedom of the borough in 1910 he made a comment of particular interest to family historians : he said that ‘ of the shops as I first recollect them [ he was born in 1840 ] not a single owner remains ; only in two or three instances does even the name remain … |
| 13 | You know he 'd far prefer to have two or three youngsters earning considerably less , who absolutely nothing about the industry than one slightly older , certainly vastly more experienced man and you know paying him more . |
| 14 | ( a ) With the concern for injuries this may afford protection to the catcher faced with two or three tacklers bearing down on him : |
| 15 | Only one member crossed the floor during the discussion and only two or three others indicated afterwards that they had been persuaded to change their minds . |
| 16 | I was thinking of doing a teddy but I thought I wanted sort of one , two or three things do n't you on the bottom ? |
| 17 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 18 | Having spent the past two or three years setting up their committees , they are reluctant to unravel them now . |
| 19 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 20 | Typically , field scientists spend two or three years studying why the range in eastern Montana is not like the range in western Montana , and explaining to Washington why it should be managed differently — only to be told by bureaucrats that all rangeland planning must be the same everywhere . |
| 21 | Cos there 's one at two , or three bus stops back , you know , by Lisa 's an , by Lisa 's house . |
| 22 | Half a dozen thorns and two or three elders grew together above and below a bank . |
| 23 | An even greater rise of 5–7 metres is possible if the ice sheet of west Antarctica melted but it would take two or three centuries to do so . |
| 24 | A typical pattern is two or three brothers living together , each with a wife and several children . |
| 25 | In both Tests , two or three Englishmen looked well set , but failed to convert good innings into substantial ones , unlike India who won the first Test through Azharuddin 's great innings of 182 and laid the foundation for the Madras victory with Tendulkar 's 165 and Sidhu 's 106 . |
| 26 | Only two or three clowns dressed up and nothing much took place . |
| 27 | The court activity is then terminated and after two or three months spent busily drafting the report the commissioner and his assessors will present their report to the Secretary of State who in turn will order it to be published . |
| 28 | The film has been translated into almost every language in the world and whenever it is shown on , say Spanish or Austrian television , we have a steady stream of people from these countries coming within two or three weeks to see where the film was made . |
| 29 | As we were hearing from Rupert just now , you know , you start if you travel to the States and spend two or three weeks wandering around there , you get an impression of the travel industry as a consumer , and you come back and go to a hotel here and you find that it seems a bit more expensive , or perhaps the meals are n't quite so good , or , as Rupert pointed out , the service is n't quite so good . |
| 30 | Two or three weeks passed surprisingly quickly . |