Example sentences of "[noun sg] or [adj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
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 | At that instant control called to announce that there was an Air Raid warning and put out all the lights , followed immediately by bombs exploding on the airfield , I knew the airfield well and I stuck to my heading and switched on my landing light just to " feel " the ground , landed and rolled along until I felt a sharp jerk and a bash or two then a complete halt . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | We may roughly classify problems connected with fishing industries as those which are affected by very quick changes , such as uncertainties of the weather ; or by changes of moderate length , such as the increased demand for fish caused by the scarcity of meat during the year or two following a cattle plague . [ … ] |