Example sentences of "or [num] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day . |
| 2 | In the seventeenth century Russia and the Ottoman empire had seemed to many European observers not altogether dissimilar ; and of the two the latter appeared until the 1680s or 1690s clearly the more powerful . |
| 3 | Well he , if he co if he 'd have come down my wa he come down at eight or nine o'clock the shops would have been shut . |
| 4 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |
| 5 | A day or two later the baby will be back , crimson-eared , or whoofing with croup . |
| 6 | A month or two later the alarm sounded again . |
| 7 | A second or two later the powerful beam of the flashlight cut through the darkness . |
| 8 | " Even at one or two a.m. the night before , we were not sure we could go there , " said the Queen later . |