Example sentences of "or [adj] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ? |
| 32 | Fees at comparable private clinics with two or three nights ' in-patient care average £2,400 , a financial impossibility without insurance . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 39 | This usually requires the tenant to give sixty or ninety days ' notice , sometimes after an agreed minimum period of four to six months . |
| 40 | Lawyers called these leases " building leases " , which were typically of sixty or ninety years ' duration . |
| 41 | There were active liberal or socialist-influenced tenants ' and farmers ' movements in the interwar period which sought to improve the farmers ' lot . |
| 42 | The examination committee records in London show that the majority of students were examined after nine or 18 months ' instruction , and even then they stood a chance of being referred back for a further period of study . |
| 43 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 44 | The second is a home or flat buyers ' report and valuation . |
| 45 | The next set of issues relates to house or flat buyers ' reports and valuations . |
| 46 | In addition to the three points on the basic valuation , namely action by the society in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance and maladministration , one further point arises in the case of a house or flat buyers ' report . |
| 47 | ‘ The society will be pleased to help you get a report suitable for your needs ; details of the house or flat buyers ' reports ( option 2 ) and building survey ( option 3 ) are set out overleaf . |
| 48 | They do not require a circular to be issued or prior shareholders ' approval . |
| 49 | Or all boys ' schools . |
| 50 | tragically yes , or all boys ' schools you know here are young men who have had thousands of pounds spent on their education , and when they arrive in an environment like Oxford they somehow seem to be less capable than other young men of behaving with decency towards the students they are being educated with . |
| 51 | After no more than five or ten seconds ' pause the door shivered under a hard kick , and then another . |
| 52 | I 've seen fellows with nine or ten years ' service , saying : ‘ I 'm leaving you . |
| 53 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 54 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 55 | That meant a reservoir of skilled engineers , some of whom might have accumulated 15 or more years ' experience before being made redundant or taking early retirement . |
| 56 | After two or more years ' investigation and the resolution of differences about which locations should or should not be included , a plan was submitted to the Governing Senate in St Petersburg in 1746 . |
| 57 | The Long Service presentations are an annual event to which everyone with twenty five or more years ' service is invited , together with the immediate family of those receiving their award . |
| 58 | Only employees with two or more years ' continuous service qualify for unfair dismissal rights . |
| 59 | The union will also be asked to adopt a plan to enable ministers with 10 or more years ' service to take three-month Sabbaticals . |
| 60 | SHEPHERDS ' PIE ( see recipe , page 161 ) served with unlimited carrots and/or green vegetables PLUS PEARS IN MERINGUE ( see recipe , page 159 ) OR VEGETARIAN SHEPHERDS ' PIE ( see recipe , page 163 ) served with unlimited vegetables , plus a diet yogurt |