Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm and I know they sold about five or six tickets at least next week |
| 2 | Use water with the chill taken off if possible : if you make up two or three buckets of really hot water before you start you can mix these with the cold . |
| 3 | It usually had two or three prongs of deliberately unequal length with hooks added to pull horsemen down , and sometimes barbs . |
| 4 | None of them come anywhere near the high calorific value of a big fried breakfast or even two or three slices of thickly buttered toast . |
| 5 | The roads , notwithstanding King Charles was pleased to say the county of Norfolk was only fit to be cut into roads for the rest of his kingdom are unpardonably bad ; narrow shaded and never mended ; they are numerous however especially the bridle-roads ; so that a traveller on horseback has generally the choice of two or three ways of nearly equal length to the same place … |
| 6 | However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s . |
| 7 | Thus , when there were only one or two dates for supposedly early mine sites , their relevance had to be interpreted with care . |
| 8 | With thick mulches you could even try one or two speciea from less arid territory . |
| 9 | I 've mentioned one or two kinds of very simple films , but of course they soon became much more erm elaborate in a , in a simple way elaborate . |
| 10 | Each community service was individually designed for one or two people in the study group , usually living with one or two people with less severe disabilities in a staffed house or apartment . |
| 11 | There were also one or two indications of expressly non-classical matters , including allusions to the " Jewish-Christian world " . |
| 12 | A man had serious injuries with pelvic fractures , and six or seven others with relatively minor injuries would be requiring surgery for shrapnel damage , Mr Taylor said . |
| 13 | The new number would certainly supply it : it is the famous Plaint — only six lines of text , but six or seven minutes of very slow music in Purcell 's best melancholy manner . |
| 14 | The Teatro Anatomico of Padua , the oldest surviving in the world , is once more open after more than 3000 hours of highly specialised restoration work . |
| 15 | The eighth full session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD VIII ) was held in Cartagena , Colombia , on Feb. 8-25 , attended by more than 2,000 delegates from over 150 countries . |
| 16 | As I said earlier , more than three quarters of recently retiring pensioners now have income from savings , and more than 60 per cent . |
| 17 | And they ruled the waves after trailing by more than three seconds with only 500 metres of the 2,000m course remaining . |
| 18 | Fisher & Paykel was the first to be affected as speeds dropped from more than 11 knots to only eight . |
| 19 | I am on the radical wing of the ‘ leave-them-alone ’ camp and spurn the US Army research which proved that 80 percent of carefully burst blisters reattach to the skin over time . |
| 20 | The market 's dramatic decline — from its 1989 peak of more than 600,000 barrels to about 400,000 last year — has had a sobering effect on brewers , and realism in now making a welcome return to their predictions of the market 's long-term potential . |
| 21 | The unwritten rule of this knowledge/power game is that one set of rather benign standards are applied to texts produced by ‘ ethnic ’ writers ( black , Jewish , Irish etc. ) and other far more critical ones to work produced by those who lack such ‘ authorizations ’ . |
| 22 | On-line processes should be designed to lose no more than five minutes of normally processed text . |
| 23 | For each of them we aimed to speak to one of their children and if possible one of their grandchildren too , in order to have more than one perspective from inside each family . |
| 24 | The party has been the spearhead of what is essentially a protest movement against more than 40 years of mostly uninterrupted Congress domination of Indian politics . |
| 25 | The common outcome of these age discriminatory elements of the social security system is that two people with equally severe disabilities receive widely differing benefits and total incomes simply as a result of their age , and will continue to do so under the Government 's recent proposals . |
| 26 | Restart facilities for off-line processes should be such that no more than four hours of normally processed text are lost as a result of a malfunction of equipment or software . |
| 27 | After comfortable MCC draws against Western Australia and an Australian XI , we set off by train for more than four months of practically non-stop cricket from one side of Australia to the other . |
| 28 | However , Croft , who has slimmed down considerably since her last days on the women 's tour , showed greater physical and mental stamina to take the match after more than two hours of sometimes unendurable tennis . |
| 29 | Of the more than half-million students in full-time higher education in 1980 , fewer than 200,000 were at a university . |
| 30 | After paying a driver and guard approximately £100 per day between them and 500 gallons of highly rebated gas oil ( for the locomotive ) , surely British Rail could be much more competitive . |