Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Oh , he must about ninety .
2 Neither was I to know that I should indeed one fine day have a son who would make me very proud of him at the ‘ Other Place ’ , but that it would be from green eyes that the light of intelligence and wit would shine .
3 ‘ Someone asked me recently , ‘ Would you ever get married again ? ’ and I said , ‘ Sure , I might possibly one day ’ but I have no immediate plans , ’ he growls warily .
4 Erm , she 'll about seventy-six , seventy-seven .
5 Might even two years .
6 We just thought you might okay one travel warrants .
7 Well you 'd naturally one or two just to see if they 're in what they want .
8 So can you g tell me any numbers that you could any two numbers you could multiply together to make twelve .
9 Groups of figures could as one word , eg. equals 3 words .
10 Twenty need replacement of both joints ( bilateral ) ; the remainder need only one .
11 She may even one day be able to form a real friendship with her estranged husband .
12 As we biotechnologicalise our existing forces of production we may well one day come to extend Marx 's aphorism by adding : and the advanced bioreactor ( fermenter ) gives you society with the Ecotopian .
13 Of what use would just one of these faculties be without the others ?
14 I wonder if that 's everyone 's experience ? , would , would any one agree or , or disagree with that ? ,
15 Once , she had thought of herself as so English that however happy she was abroad and even if married to an Italian she would always one day gravitate home .
16 Well yes there would nearly two going every day indeed .
17 So so it would about four days .
18 And then playing a a hook , bowling a hook with a sort of a long hook to An iron hoop or hook it would about two foot six in circumference .
19 Cranston tossed him a penny and , standing on an overturned barrel , bellowed for half the market to hear how he was Coroner of the city , and would no one help the poor lad have the corpse removed ?
20 Not only would over 400 people regularly work inside the power station , but many thousands more would continue to live within relatively close proximity .
21 Eastern Province , captained by South African skipper Kepler Wessels , will paly two one-day matches against a World XI on Aug 29–30 during the 1992 Scarborough Festival .
22 Will no one drive the dog away ? ’ pleaded the Lord Mayor .
23 So that they , they can only twenty .
24 You can about forty pounds .
25 At one of Lloyds most recently opened clubs , Lloyd 's Lanes , in Enfield , North London , you can even ten pin bowl your way to fitness and fun .
26 Victory when it came I found tasteless , I was ashamed to be envious of air crews who were able to turn up at reunions with a crew intact , and they still can even 40 years on , and relive those cruel yet wondrous days when the composition of a crew was as binding as the sanctity of marriage .
27 Er , well it depends er one or the two , you can either one or two .
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