Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bryan uses seven or eight Strats and a couple of Gretsches — a green one and we 've just got the orange one . ’ |
| 2 | It was the monsoon settlement of some other village — five or six huts and a small area of once-ploughed land , enclosed by a tumbledown stone wall . |
| 3 | A team consists of five or six couples and a priest/spiritual counsellor . |
| 4 | Apart from two or three cafes and a restaurant or two , there is little habitation . |
| 5 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |
| 6 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 7 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 8 | The house was identified and purchased , and I do n't see any reason why we could n't have a stay of two or three days or a week to get time to move things properly . ’ |
| 9 | A single spoonful of Belladonna LM1 took effect within 2 or 3 minutes and a few more doses during the day cleared the state . |
| 10 | Make your title search four or five days or a week before completion ( five days if you think there may be a pending registration ) , to enable you to complete well within the period of priority that your search gives you — but remember that to gain full protection you must not only complete the purchase within that period , as with unregistered title , but must also within the same period lodge your application to register the transfer or mortgage . |
| 11 | Yeah , so what I 'm doing , I 'll these , gon na make about a hundred or one bit or a couple of bits and some butterfly cakes and the cakes and plates and cling film , charge them a quid , eight for a pound |
| 12 | I can tell of many schools and many teachers doing an exciting job under very difficult circumstances : a school set up in abandoned , corrugated iron railway sheds in Ghana with no partitions , hot at midday and unspeakably noisy during rainstorms , yet well equipped with a cheerful co-operative staff , an open plan school , Ghana style ; an overcrowded school in Lesotho where teachers had evolved their own brand of team-teaching , one teacher imparting information to a class of 120 , followed by groupwork where two teachers and a student supervised written work ; a school down the road from them where Class I and 2 teachers who finished teaching at lunchtime had organised afternoon sessions on remedial reading for older children ; another in Francistown , Botswana , in temporary classrooms , with walls made of hessian and children organised into ‘ family groups ’ playing reading and number games under the guidance of older children . |
| 13 | These houses of three or four rooms and a kitchen form , throughout England , some parts of London excepted , the general dwellings of the working-class . |
| 14 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 15 | The degree of BMus requires three years of study , or four years if a student reads for honours . |
| 16 | Some papers were still in local companies , with or without a morning/evening partner , and controlled by one or two families or a scatter of shareholders . |
| 17 | One snack should constitute , at most , half a bar of chocolate , or two biscuits or a very small cake ( or anything sweet of around 100–150 calories ) . |
| 18 | Suppose we have three drugs X 1 , X 2 , X 3 ( or two drugs and a control ) that are to be compared in their effect on rats . |
| 19 | In order to provide ‘ permanent ’ help , many agencies operate a rota system with the carers working for a period of one or two weeks or a month , and then changing over in a planned way with another carer . |
| 20 | These would be either two women and a man , or two men and a woman , and the Hearings would be conducted as informally as possible , in surroundings that would not be intimidating to children . |
| 21 | A few freaks have been discovered from time to time , one amazing animal tipping the scales at no less than 43 lbs and a dwarf specimen at as little as 3 lbs , but these were abnormal . |
| 22 | The following month , the University celebrated its foundation with Thanksgiving Service in the Church of the Holy Rude on September 23 , attended by more than 30 clergy and a large congregation of staff and students . |
| 23 | He had launched Laker Airways saying it would be a tight operation with no more than six planes and a staff of 120 . |
| 24 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 25 | WITH no fewer than three courses and a floodlit driving range , Hoebridge in Woking is one of Britain 's leading pay-as-you-play golf centres . |
| 26 | Although three sons and a daughter survived infancy , only his daughter , Sarah , and second son , John , survived him , the latter to pursue a successful career in the City , centred on the Levant trade . |
| 27 | Medicine was a particular interest of the Tughluk Sultans , and Sultan Muhammed 's nephew Firoz Shah founded no fewer than seventy dispensaries and a Shifa Khana ( or Central Hospital ) where free food , drink and medicine were supplied to the sick at the expense of the treasury . |
| 28 | The 1992 Gîtes de France brochure contains more than 2500 properties and a choice of 22 ferry routes . |
| 29 | After the break Duffy knocked in a 92 in less than 6 minutes and a quickfire 83 , taking only 3 minutes 46 seconds , clinched the match . |
| 30 | Scragg et al in a case-control study found that ever user of the pill was associated with an increased risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in women younger than 29 years and a reduced risk of symptomatic gall bladder disease in older women . |