Example sentences of "or [num] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is um in Burstow 's clinical practice she reckons that um sometimes people say something along the lines of well well um perhaps it was my fault , I was flirting with him , and things like that it and these are people who maybe have been about five or six when the abuse has happened and so y'know do five or six year olds flirt ? |
| 2 | Note that a number 2 or 4 after the model indicates whether the tractor is two-wheel-drive or four-wheel-drive . |
| 3 | They were interviewed in groups of 2 or 3 although the researcher recorded individual responses for each question on the form . |
| 4 | On average , social services provision accommodated three people per unit ( or four if the adult placement scheme is excluded ) , compared with seven per unit in the voluntary sector and the National Health Service ( excluding hospitals ) . |
| 5 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 6 | It was only a moment or two before a couple of cars came up the hill and screeched into the side of the road . |
| 7 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 8 | Two or three maggots on a small hook lying on clean sand may only require an indication of an inch or two before the strike can be made . |
| 9 | A day or two before the crime was to take place , the Apparition of Our Lady shone forth , changing bitterness to religious awe and causing the Ribbonmen publicly to repent . |
| 10 | The conclusion is that perhaps the Magharba , in the month or two before the report appeared , may have demanded bloodwealth from the government , or ( only slightly less plausible ) from the al-Qadhadhfa — the tribe to the east of Sirte , providing the command of the garrison there . |
| 11 | It is best to arrive an hour or two before the light grows dim . |
| 12 | Add the chopped spinach and mint and bubble for a minute or two until the spinach is soft . |
| 13 | Add the chopped spinach and mint and bubble for a minute or two until the spinach is soft . |
| 14 | I would only been six or seven when the war started . |
| 15 | There might also be a departmental or other code in the centre of the key , and we might obtain all the records in three areas starting with numbers such as 03 , 05 or 07 if the choice of storage address is unfortunate . |