Example sentences of "[conj] [num] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depending on the reputation of the artist , the agent makes a deal to split this percentage of the ticket money from 70:30 up to 90:10 or 95:5 in the artist 's favour . |
| 2 | Look , this area empties at five or six in the morning and people come back at nine or ten at night . ’ |
| 3 | On some days they seemed absent from the area and then we would detect two or three in the course of the next patrol . |
| 4 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 5 | When I arrived at the Palace gates with my invitation card I was somewhat taken aback when two or three in the crowd around the railings recognized me and asked for autographs — in that place of all places ! |
| 6 | The neighbours thought him very odd , because he would start to carve at two or three in the morning when he came home . |
| 7 | It was about two or three in the morning . |
| 8 | The rows were always over money and housework : " He 'd just go berserk till two or three in the morning , bawling and shouting , and I 'd just try to sit and hold his legs . |
| 9 | ‘ Come on , Matt , ’ she would say , calling him at two or three in the morning , her voice hoarse with the cigarettes she chain-smoked . |
| 10 | Apart from anything else , his working day did not begin till seven or eight , so that he was often there during the day , and always ready to listen ; but there were times when his customers left early , at two or three in the morning , and then Maurice , somewhat exhilarated with whisky , would come over to Grace , magically retaining his balance on the gangplank , and sit on the gunwale , waiting . |
| 11 | The noise of heavily amplified Hindi movie music can be heard until well after two or three in the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’ |
| 13 | The Lanx , a rectangular dish , 48 x 38 cm and weighing over 10lbs , was discovered by chance in February 1734 or 5 in the bank of the River Tyne at Corbridge in Northumberland by the daughter of the local cobbler , from whom it passed into the hands of the Dukes of Northumberland . |
| 14 | the bankruptcy of some person who is or may become beneficially entitled to any such property or income ; or 2. an assignment of or a charge on any such property or income being made or given by some such person ; or 3. in the case of a marriage settlement , the death of both parties to the marriage and of all or any of the children of the marriage ; or 4. the death under the age of 25 or some lower age of some person who would be beneficially entitled to that property or income on attaining that age . |
| 15 | The viewers get a glimpse of an event or person on the early evening news , another taste at nine or ten in the evening and ( hopefully ) a bit more detail and not too much distraction in the following morning 's papers , radio and TV . |
| 16 | Every single one of them — and there were upwards of seventy or eighty in the group — seemed to have brought at least one dog . |
| 17 | Police have had no problems at all with clubbers at 5 or 5.30 in the morning , he says . |
| 18 | I had to speak to accountants , asking for information and so on , and they always seemed to be out at lunch , whether it was 10 in the morning or five in the afternoon . |
| 19 | She lost weight but nothing was allowed to interfere with her work and she regularly sewed till four or five in the morning . |
| 20 | ‘ At first she wanted to sit up until four or five in the morning , just talking . |
| 21 | The title eventually went to Chris Patton who defeated Danny Green 3 & 1 in the final . |
| 22 | Claims must be made within two years of the child 's birth , or four in the case of muscular dystrophy . |
| 23 | From about 12 o'clock to three or four in the morning it 's absolute madness in here . |
| 24 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 25 | At three or four in the morning the telephone beside the bed rang shrilly . |
| 26 | There were nights when , hearing him start at three or four in the morning , she would have welcomed anything that would let him stop and rest-paregoric , a sugar-tit , any of those wicked things . |
| 27 | The midnight sum indeed lasted all night , and one scientist became the ghost of the ship , a phantom who one would glimpse briefly only at three or four in the morning . |
| 28 | Although it must be three or four in the morning , there were still lights showing on Lord Jim . |
| 29 | Look , she 'd woken up at two , three or four in the morning trying to plan a perfect system for keeping cassettes in order . |
| 30 | That 's where everyone 's different of course but erm I , I think it is , it is it is a factor that erm one can watch television or can listen to the radio or one can go for a walk or do all sorts of things as it were before noon and midnight but three or four in the morning , you know , when everything is |