Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hakon cheated by turning up with seven or eight warships as opposed to the agreed number of two ships adhered to by St Magnus .
2 Consultant Peter Thompson destroyed a hesitant rally when he forecast the FT-SE share index ending the month at 2,100 or 2,200 points and sinking to 1,800 next year .
3 Count the number of beats in either 15 or 30 seconds and multiply by either four or two to obtain the resting pulse rate .
4 The best way to practise is to mark out two or three kilometres and practise on your individual horse .
5 Cook for two or three minutes and remove from the heat .
6 Why could I never go about arm in arm with two or three others and stare at girls ?
7 he spent erm , two years in the services I think dur during the war , two or three years and went through a bit of action and then , I think she said he was a policeman when he came out he , he joined the police force and he was cycling home one day and erm , I do n't know , he fell off the bicycle , hit his head and he died
8 Break the cinnamon sticks into two or three pieces and add to the pan .
9 He collapsed at Debbie 's on Wednesday night , well he fell , bumped his head sort of fall down so the doctor come yesterday , tt , and he had to stop in bed two or three days and go at the doctor 's for ten minute appointment and he bloody test and to see why he 's lost so much weight cos his legs are like that .
10 He brought the dog in every two or three days and paid on the nail .
11 A class which has a rest every 3 or 4 minutes but trains for an hour would be better off training non-stop for 30 minutes .
12 But little of all this results in rational or systematic debate about what people should study during the three or four years that lead to their first degree .
13 We have explored a general , if somewhat schematic , framework which allows us to analyse rather than simply describe what undergraduates are taught during the three or four years that lead to their first degree .
14 ‘ I think , Dr Markham , ’ she said firmly , ‘ if we are to improve the atmosphere around here and have a reasonable working relationship , there are one or two things that need to be said to clear the air . ’
15 the Humanities Faculty , having been rather disturbed by one or two things that emerged from the study , decided to meet in someone 's house the day after the end of the Christmas Term .
16 Macdonald suggests that foxes account for just one in every 15 or 20 lambs that die on Scottish hills .
17 ‘ Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence . ’
18 If it goes ahead it 'll cover nearly three hundred and fifty acres and consist of thirty million tons of coal .
19 ‘ Car number five cost six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and sold for sixteen hundred and forty-nine fifty .
20 A plasma sample was taken for gastrin , pepsinogen-I , and pepsinogen-II determinations and stored at -20°C until analysis .
21 Four hundred pounds , and four twenty , four forty at four hundred and forty I 'm offered at four hundred and forty pounds and selling for four hundred and forty pounds against you all .
22 The 6382 has three slots and three bays and comes in diskless , floppy and hard disk configurations , the 6384 has five slots and five bays , and the 6387 has eight slots and six bays .
23 At three hundred and sixty pounds and selling for three hundred and sixty , have you all finished ?
24 ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five .
25 The 2300 and 2600 engines as fitted to the SDI cars ‘ 76 to ‘ 87 did not have the best reliability record and will not easily fit a Land Rover .
26 Chop a carrot , 50g of mushrooms , 50g of French beans and 3 courgettes and fry in the pan for another 2 or 3 minutes , seasoning with black pepper .
27 It has four EISA slots in addition to the input-output and networking interfaces used in the 715/33 and 50 models and comes with 19″ colour or grey scale monitor .
28 Thank you , Lot number seventy six Lot number seventy six Peking er dishes there 's the Peking dishes , there 's seven of them , we 've got one of them showing seven in the for a hundred pounds one hundred pounds at a hundred pounds and ten , at one hundred and ten pounds , any more at one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty one forty in front , one fifty one sixty , seventy yes ? one eighty , thank you one eighty in front , at a hundred and eighty pounds and selling for one hundred and eighty .
29 For instance , I can see that writing this book is a function of my job and as such is part of the responsibility of earning a living , but it is also an escape for me , a kind of haven to which I can take refuge from the hundred and one pressures that impinge on the practical business of living .
30 Many were there for more than three hours , but Hannah always gives full value for this kind of sacrifice talking to each one for between five and fifteen minutes and writing in the book whatever message is asked for .
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