Example sentences of "or two at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spirits in both cars were high , Margaret scenting battle , her guards taking what pleasure they could from the prospect of a day or two at the seaside . |
| 2 | Rather than let you go to the contessa I thought it wise to let you waste an hour or two at the museum . ’ |
| 3 | Often , unable to bear leaving the dress until the next night , Constance would get up after Nora had closed the door and , placing her dressing gown at its foot so that no light would show , spend another hour or two at the work she loved . |
| 4 | A day or two at the beginning , a day or two between Regions and again a day or two at the end of the visit should cover these needs . |
| 5 | They had been invited to spend a week or two at the country house of Mr Josiah Barnet , a banker on Wall Street , whom Mr Carson had met in the course of business . |
| 6 | Lady Dedlock staying at the Hotel Bristol , Place Vendôme , is ‘ bored to death ’ there ( a Parisian Sunday described : people ‘ playing with children among the clipped trees and the statues in the [ Tuileries ] Palace Garden ; walking , a score abreast , in the Elysian Fields , made more Elysian by performing dogs and wooden houses ; between whiles filtering ( a few ) through the gloomy Cathedral of our Lady , to say a word or two at the base of a pillar , within flare of a rusty little gridiron full of gusty little tapers ’ ) , BH 12 . |
| 7 | After a month or two at the wheel , the BMW had become completely transparent to me . |
| 8 | He stood for a moment or two at the spot where Francis 's body had been found . |
| 9 | The receiver is so powerful that it can only be a matter of a minute or two at the outside before the signal is received . |
| 10 | As traditional Italian dances are often sung , the performers pose solemnly fur a second or two at the end of each phrase . |
| 11 | IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year . |
| 12 | A day or two at the beginning , a day or two between Regions and again a day or two at the end of the visit should cover these needs . |