Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 2 | Three subject courses are taken in the first year , two or three in the second and one or two in the third to make seven in all . |
| 3 | It 's bottomed out now , but it 's fallen by about fifty or sixty in the last eight months . |
| 4 | This usually leads to removal of the effect of any repeating pattern such as a 2 , 5 or 0 in the last digit because every digit in the number divided is involved in the division , and so may be altered . |
| 5 | Well you 've got four or five after the last time ! |
| 6 | Take the time at the gallery to see what a communications satellite looks like at close quarters , or one of the first budget 405-line TV sets sold by Pye in 1938 . |
| 7 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 8 | Of every cwt. of copper she was to receive 2s. or one-twentieth during the first five years thereafter to have 2s. 6d. , or one-fifteenth . |
| 9 | Hangleton and many other villages survived only as a single house or two into the next century . |
| 10 | She flinched but did n't move her arm away and the wash of colour behind her clenched eyelids shifted a tone or two down the fifth arc of the spectrum . |
| 11 | Perhaps the only way to reach a solution would be over a glass or two at the nineteenth hole . |
| 12 | You should gather seeds from the best plants only , if possible selecting and marking them early on and removing all but one or two of the first , fattest seed-heads to conserve as much energy as possible . |
| 13 | The first substantial remains of sculpture from a Doric building are from a temple of Artemis on Kerkyra ( Corcyra , Corfu ) , which must date from the first decade or two of the sixth century . |
| 14 | Most held their breath and tried a punt or two on the third market stocks their licensed dealer recommended , which in some cases had been quoted on the OTC market earlier . |
| 15 | The proembryoes can be frozen and stored , and their availability improves the chance of success of in vitro fertilizations as well as allowing a woman to have another child a year or two after the first . |
| 16 | Then , when the buck lay still , another stealthy pace or two before the next freeze . |
| 17 | Erm they wo n't all have been mentioned in in the brochure because we 've introduced one or two in the last erm year or so . |
| 18 | Three subject courses are taken in the first year , two or three in the second and one or two in the third to make seven in all . |
| 19 | Nationally the Home Office would provide no more than 1,000 officers in this financial year and no more than 500 in the next year , which would give Cheshire six to seven new officers on a pro-rata basis . |
| 20 | In reply , Boycott and Brearley put on no less than 129 for the first wicket — jolly good in a Test , but they took thirty-eight overs about it , with Boycott not getting into double figures until the seventeenth over . |
| 21 | Sotheby 's paid dearly for this error of judgment with no less than six of the first nine lots in its evening sale failing to find buyers . |
| 22 | By the end of the second day 's fighting , over 3,000 of its men had surrendered ; more than 1,200 from the 211th Regiment alone . |
| 23 | Mr Lamont said this measure should reduce ‘ overhang ’ of empty properties by more than 20,000 over the next few months . |
| 24 | This is a reminder that one of the first things a Kinnock government is pledged to do is sign the European Commission 's social charter , rejected by Mr Major at the Maastricht summit . |
| 25 | It is significant that one of the first major published attacks on Indirect Rule was written by a Northern Nigeria DO , Walter Crocker , whose animus against the system clearly arose not from disagreement with its basic principles but from the fact that DOs were allowed so little responsibility within it . |
| 26 | ‘ I am glad that one of the first things |
| 27 | It is apt that one of the first two recordings made by Kurt Masur in his new role as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic should be of the New World Symphony , particularly when it comes in ample time to celebrate the centenary of the first performance of that favourite work by this very orchestra in December 1893 . |
| 28 | There was a certain irony in the fact that one of the first things Baldwin told the King , on taking over from the decrepit MacDonald , was that he himself needed two months ' rest . |
| 29 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 30 | The claim is that one of the first to mark out John Smith 's future political career was the Labour leader , Hugh Gaitskell , who was in his time characterised and vilified as being right-wing . |