Example sentences of "that [adj] or [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 2 | Let's face it , we 're quite selfish in the fact that we want to ensure that the area that we live in is safe for us and not too concerned that three or four estates down the road unless it starts to affect us . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal held that three or four transactions in the course of five years were not sufficient to establish a course of dealing . |
| 4 | It was suggested that three or four lights would be sufficient and that they would make a worthwhile contribution to road safety on this dangerous stretch of road where there is no footpath . |
| 5 | He said the victim ‘ suggested that three or four men were involved . ’ |
| 6 | My first instinct was to back the car and find a different way round , but then in the headlights I saw that three or four men were all dressed in black shirts . |
| 7 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 8 | One Russian officer is reported to have advised his western counterparts to ‘ take seriously ’ rumours that three or four weapons have disappeared in Kazakhstan . |
| 9 | The government and the FIS claimed respectively that 17 or 20 people had died by June 10 . |
| 10 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 11 | In July , when Nationalists protested at the failure of the corporation to appoint Nationalists to committee chairs , the mayor pointed out that fifteen or sixteen years ago the Nationalists had said that they would refuse to take such chairs and that they would only take part in corporation affairs in order to disrupt them . |
| 12 | It is murmured that one or two departments have been given a warning shot across the bows : ‘ improve , or you may sink without trace ’ . |
| 13 | If you make an error in a project powered from a PP3 size 9 volt battery , about the worst that will happen is that one or two semiconductors will be destroyed . |
| 14 | Faxing or telexing a 60–70 page document is a time-consuming and therefore expensive process , and always with that nagging uncertainty that one or two pages might not have transmitted properly . |
| 15 | Then there 's a supplement over the four or five person rate to cover our risk that one or two berths may not be filled , and to cover the extra administration effort needed to handle four ( or five ! ) separate sets of paperwork instead of just one . |
| 16 | I 'm disturbed that one or two suppliers of environmentally-friendly products seem to be adopting conventionally unscrupulous tactics in order to sell their goods . |
| 17 | We believe that one or two buy-outs will be allowed to succeed , but that many SBG assets will be sold to the crude private sector . |
| 18 | A fact that one or two companies have learned to their cost . |
| 19 | ‘ It is possible that one or two plants might think it worthwhile to upgrade but they would have to be very sure there was a large and lucrative market there to warrant the investment . ’ |
| 20 | In the background all this time was the knowledge on both sides of the Atlantic that one or two airlines had adopted anonymous reporting systems which had brought to light the most important and hair-raising incidents , some of which could be eliminated without difficulty by altering certain operating practices . |
| 21 | Although largely confined to salt water in Sussex , there are sufficient inland records to suggest that one or two mergansers can be found on inland waters every winter . |
| 22 | Occasionally I get the unnerving sense that one or two people are paying attention to what I am saying . |
| 23 | However , in the absence of much evidence for the quality of tessellation at Withington ( some fragments of mosaic D are preserved in the British Museum ) , significant stylistic affinities still indicate that one or two craftsmen working here had also worked on the Barton Farm and Woodchester mosaics , i.e. suggesting an integral relationship . |
| 24 | We had some anecdotal evidence from the Home Secretary that one or two prison governors whom he happened to run into in recent weeks said that the Bill might not be a bad thing . |
| 25 | Minimising — admitting that one or two staff members drink a bit or perhaps use a bit of cannabis or maybe occasionally get into trouble with the consequences of drinking too much but insisting that the Company has more important problems to deal with and that it is not the Company rule nor responsibility to deal with these problems . |
| 26 | Apart from the fact that the breakfast was bad and the service worse and that one or two police constables appeared to be taking their holidays in the hotel , they had picked up nothing of interest . |
| 27 | ‘ Lord Beddington explained that five or six years ago the Australian banking organisation broke down altogether and nobody stepped in to save it . |
| 28 | I know people read my books and try to find identifiable people but the truth is that five or six people , and a great deal of myself and a great deal of invention , go into minor characters . |
| 29 | ‘ The word is that five or six miles further on we 'll find the new road washed out . |
| 30 | What we do know is that two or three groups are involved and the sale could well turn into an auction … there 's local and national interest and at least one very well known figure is in the market to buy … speculation has named Virgin boss Richard Branson again … but his office said this afternoon he was n't in the running … |