Example sentences of "once or [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 2 | Billy Arjan Singh saw the family once or twice during the next week and then Harriet and her cubs melted away into the jungle . |
| 3 | Once or twice during the Course he would make an excuse to come to collect something or other , and I think he enjoyed seeing some of the results of the teachers ' acquaintance with the displays . |
| 4 | Once or twice during the next few days Bathsheba saw Troy working in her hayfields . |
| 5 | Doctor Teesdale visited the condemned man in prison once or twice during the week before he was put to death . |
| 6 | I think the number of er er ex I think the fact that this is merely an exception a major exceptions policy that deals only with exceptional cases and the the Humberside structure plan refers to possibly once or twice over a planned period erm might er indicate it 's not intended to open to subvert section fifty four A. |
| 7 | In my third year at Oxford , however , I noticed that I seemed to be getting clumsier , and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason . |
| 8 | For twelve years I had greatly enjoyed being a guest of some of the members of the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers on their championship links of Muirfield on the coast of East Lothian , where once or twice as a boy I had played with my grandfather . |
| 9 | Once or twice as a hand grabbed and missed it lurched and threatened to tilt the corpse on to the crowd . |
| 10 | There was little traffic on the picturesque road from Roziac to Alès and Melissa drove slowly , stopping once or twice along the way to contemplate the magnificent scenery . |
| 11 | She had had real coffee once or twice on the ‘ pomps ’ raids down into Mexico , but it had n't seemed special . |
| 12 | She needed a backing guitarist and asked Kieran , who she had met once or twice on the road , would he help out . |
| 13 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 14 | At first she looked embarrassed , then she spoke to him , glancing over her shoulder once or twice like a child afraid of being caught . |
| 15 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 16 | Cutting letter box slots in doors is a job most of us have to do once or twice in a decade . |
| 17 | But once or twice in a while I would despair of producing the kind of thing that seemed likely to win approval from one whose standards were so high — impossibly high I felt so far as emulation on my part was concerned — and therefore I had moods in which I would feel unworthy of his attention . |
| 18 | Unidentified actress , perhaps the ‘ Miss Shirreff ’ mentioned once or twice in the Diaries of the actor William Macready ( 1793–1873 ) . |
| 19 | Once or twice in the past . |
| 20 | ‘ It happened once or twice in the semi-final against the All Blacks and then even more in the final ’ , he explained . |
| 21 | Among others there was the Scottish advocate ( and future QC and Conservative MP ) Nicholas Fairbairn , a sartorial dandy with a razor-sharp mind whom I had met once or twice in the Borders . |
| 22 | Arghatun was speaking again , and he gestured once or twice in the direction of Rostov and the others so that it was clear that he was making a report . |
| 23 | I 've only heard it once or twice in the last few |