Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember visiting a year or two ago a project in Mexico , where an American organization had moved in and made a careful study , decided that the ideal thing for the local people to do would be to raise chickens , so they put fences up , supplied them with goodness knows how many hundred thousand chickens ; within a year they 'd killed the chickens , pulled the fences down and used them to cook the chickens and they were back exactly where they were . |
| 2 | A moment or two later a man who , from his lanky form and fine-boned features , could only be her fiancé , Lord Woodleigh , emerged , evidently doing his best to overcome a certain reluctance . |
| 3 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 4 | They were only just in time , for a minute or two later a procession appeared at the top of the hill and began to make its way slowly down . |
| 5 | '' A day or two later an earthquake shook the whole area and the same thing happened : ‘ ’ the Lord was not in the earthquake . ’ |
| 6 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 7 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 8 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 9 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |
| 10 | If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 . |
| 11 | If the present state is F then if pr is less than 0.77 then the state remains F or else the state becomes C. If the present state is C then if pr is less than 0.24 then the state becomes F or else the state remains C. The values 0.77 and 0.24 are obtained from the transition probability matrix shown in Table 6.4 . |
| 12 | On Nov. 6 and 7 respectively the House and Senate approved the conference-reconciled version of the human services appropriations bills which they had enacted in September [ see p. 38428 ] . |
| 13 | On Oct. 17 and 18 respectively the German and Polish lower houses of parliament ( the Bundestag and the Sejm ) ratified the border treaty signed on Nov. 14 , 1990 [ see p. 37867 ] , and the friendship treaty signed on June 17 , 1991 [ see p. 38306 ] . |
| 14 | On Nov. 13 and 17 respectively the court ruled that Stoph , who had not been well enough to attend the previous day and had heart problems , and Mielke were too ill stand trial . |
| 15 | The penguins are fed at 11.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. every day except on a Friday . |
| 16 | Not when I was there of course it was er it was er er radio was there you know and we we called up the shore station at Ered at nine o'clock one o'clock and five o'clock every day unless there was er a fault in the radio which we were usually able to overcome . |
| 17 | All right let's see if we can get you a bugler nobody 's ringing at the moment but you want a bugler for a week on Sunday the fourteenth to blow reveille and the Last Post at eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock a week on Sunday at Calverton in Nottinghamshire . |
| 18 | Between 1871 and 1901 alone the number of towns with populations over 50,000 doubled . |
| 19 | Between 4.30 and 9 a.m. every day a dozen fish trains left Grimsby for all parts of the country . |
| 20 | To me and thousands more the name of Wester Ross lives on . |
| 21 | Between 1985 and 1990 alone the sculpture index climbed 270% . |