Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [prep] the [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 | The idea is eventually to build four or five of the airships a year , costing £3.5 million each . |
| 24 | The court must not make a bankruptcy order unless it is satisfied that the debt , or one of the debts , in respect of which the petition was presented has not been paid nor secured or compounded for , or is a debt which the debtor has no reasonable prospect of being able to pay when it falls due ( s 271(1) ) . |
| 25 | It 's not trotted out in the old history books as one of the conferences , or one of the congresses rather . |
| 26 | And that in fact is one of the one of the areas or one of the elements that attracts people to this particular job . |
| 27 | Proceedings begun by originating application or petition may be subject to specific enactments or rules , but otherwise they may be commenced in the court for the district in which the respondent or one of the respondents resides or carries on business or in which the subject matter of the application is situated , or if no respondent is named , in the court for the district in which the applicant or petitioner or one of them resides or carries on business ( Ord 4 , r 8 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , compared to the leave they get in the big houses I suppose it is ; half a day a month for some of them , and then no leave at all if they 're known to come from the workhouse , or one of the settlements . |
| 29 | However , by section 10 of the Employment Act 1988 the immunity is withdrawn where the reason or one of the reasons for which the act is done is the fact or belief that the employer is employing non-union labour . |
| 30 | She closed her eyes , and leant precariously against the carved statuette that had once spouted water until Justin or one of the others had shoved something into it . |