Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice could see thirty or forty of the Hunters hovering in the skies . |
| 2 | Then one of the machine-guns opened up , hurling five or six of the prisoners against the wall , flinging their limbs around as if they were scarecrows and as they fell in a heap that was what they were . |
| 3 | Lists of exemptions can be found in sections 4 , 5 , 6 & 7 of the Vehicles ( Excise ) Act 1971 . |
| 4 | He could see Hawkbit running towards him now and two or three of the others — Silver , Dandelion and Pipkin . |
| 5 | I , I of course , I suppose going round with milk I 'd perhaps got more confidence th cos I had to take milk whether I wanted to or not , see and we if we got down there and there was two or three of the conductresses down the fleck and er , jump on a Dalston bus cos I 'd got to get to like , you know . |
| 6 | Men went down with two or three of the beasts ripping at them ; others fell overboard and were killed in a froth of churning water . |
| 7 | The response was excellent ; quite a few regionals published the recipe itself and two or three of the writers on the nationals featured that vegetable in their own favourite recipes . |
| 8 | I saw two or three of the knights haled away into the woods . |
| 9 | And he wrote the sleeve notes on two or three of the CDs . |
| 10 | It would be unlikely if in any more than two or three of the companies to be bought out there were rival bids from within the existing management and work force . |
| 11 | So we got everyone together here the bank manager , was Mr then , Barclays Bank we got two or three of the industrialists all of the members that were prepared to help and we started from there . |
| 12 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 13 | Tess discovered that only two or three of the dairymaids slept in the house , besides herself . |
| 14 | On top put two or three of the steaks , sprinkled with salt and pepper . |
| 15 | If the photographer has used a reel of film ask for a set of contact prints with the photographer 's own choice of two or three of the pictures enlarged . |
| 16 | Two or three of the cykes blew up in sympathy . |
| 17 | Even in some cases where two or three of the Evangelists record the same event , their accounts differ considerably ( for example , the resurrection narratives ) . |
| 18 | In the municipal library , after consultation with an assistant , Melissa settled at a table in a quiet corner with two or three of the books that Antoinette Gebrec had recommended . |
| 19 | I now want to talk about two or three of the mechanisms and techniques we hope to be able to use in implementing changes when things are n't necessarily to your liking . |
| 20 | Two or three of the men looked round , no one waved . |
| 21 | After a hostile demonstration by some 500 or 600 of the men , the appellants ' colliery manager , James , was informed by the men 's committee that the strikers were going to get the ‘ safety men ’ out . |
| 22 | Thus only about 70 or 80 of the brides were marrying skilled manual workers ; and 42 of these were in the printing trade , massively skewing the figures . |
| 23 | I do n't think I could train full-time like MacFarlane and that-s one of the things that 's kept me going : to know that , as a junior , I was as fast as MacFarlane . |
| 24 | Married couples , where one of the spouses has little or no income , should transfer income from deposits and investments into the account of the non-working spouse to use up his or her allowance — that is , a slice of tax free income . |
| 25 | Yet he and his companions were creeping towards the stockade 's turret , where one of the guns exploded , when they were spotted ; one shot picked out the young man next to Dulé . |
| 26 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 27 | Wycliffe led the way into Glynn 's office where one of the scenes-of-crime team was still at work . |
| 28 | Thus we have the conventional one-address instruction format ( introduced in Chapter 1 ) where one of the operands and the result are held in the accumulator , and the store address of only the second operand has to be specified in the instruction . |
| 29 | Indeed , the only formal requirement for economic evaluation of alternative plans or programmes at the current time is that of option appraisal for schemes where one of the options is a capital scheme with an initial outlay of £10 million or more ( DHSS , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | There 's this one where the front of a building falls down and Buster 's standing where one of the windows is , so he walks away unhurt . |