Example sentences of "two [coord] [num] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Komeda Torao , Jiho of the third rank , was the most blunt : ‘ If in the past [ Your Majesty ] had shown as much care for politics as he had passion for horsemanship , no such criticism from the public as ‘ politics by two or three Ministers ' would have occurred . ’ |
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| 3 | Komeda Torao , Jiho of the third rank , was the most blunt : ‘ If in the past [ Your Majesty ] had shown as much care for politics as he had passion for horsemanship , no such criticism from the public as ‘ politics by two or three Ministers ' would have occurred . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 5 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 6 | But only a supreme effort over this distance will produce more than two or three minutes ' advantage . |
| 7 | As instructed , she gave Fen two or three minutes ' warning and felt the boat change direction and nudge the bank . |
| 8 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 9 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 10 | He asked for two or three days ' grace so that he could consult with his friends and when this was granted , he took his leave . |
| 11 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 12 | The use of modern language laboratories and deep immersion techniques can teach practically any individual , either manager or shop-floor worker , enough to work in another country after some two or three months ' experience . |
| 13 | Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights ' in-patient care average £2,400 , a financial impossibility without insurance . |
| 14 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 15 | Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years ' experience . |
| 16 | Will this extraordinary advertising culture by just as visible in two or three years ' time ? |
| 17 | In two or three years ' time , high-end personal computer-type boxes will look quite alike , he thinks . |
| 18 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 19 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 20 | Forest soils are so poor they ca n't support more than two or three seasons ' crops . |
| 21 | I ca n't give you reduced cost advice at the moment but it may be that in two or three weeks ' time your s situation has changed to the extent where I can . |
| 22 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 23 | If , in addition to finding a tenant , the agency is managing the let , you should be paid every month , less a tenant-finding fee of between two and four weeks ' rent . |
| 24 | Five members of the One Tyrol group were sentenced on Nov. 10 , four of them in their absence , to terms of between two and 15 years ' imprisonment on Nov. 10 for 41 attacks on railway lines , banks and electricity installations in the South Tyrol in 1986-88 . |
| 25 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |