Example sentences of "that [adj] or [num] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government and the FIS claimed respectively that 17 or 20 people had died by June 10 . |
| 2 | Occasionally I get the unnerving sense that one or two people are paying attention to what I am saying . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | T. B. Panabokke , when Police Magistrate at Matale , was also suspicious : ‘ The usual evidence was that so-and-so lost his animal and that two or three people at different places , when they went to turn water to their fields , met the accused driving the animals away . |