Example sentences of "[num] or [num] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Empirically however , the last century has been dominated by a major movement of people away from the countryside , although in the past 10 or 20 years there has been a significant repopulation of rural areas . |
| 2 | And er these people , you know , next door like have got er they 've got six or seven boys I think ! gang of kids ! |
| 3 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 4 | ‘ Every six or seven years it overruns the Humboldt . ’ |
| 5 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 6 | There are three or four operators who 've been here longer than the computer , and I can see they 've really switched off . |
| 7 | It 's gon na be even more difficult another three or four posts I believe are now appointed with Aiden that will create vacancies . |
| 8 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |
| 9 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |
| 10 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |
| 11 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 12 | Three or four pints she said . |
| 13 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 14 | ‘ We steam up for arranged parties and clubs and have four staunch volunteers and three or four helpers who lay track and run the railway … it would be quite impossible otherwise . ’ |
| 15 | So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat ! |
| 16 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 17 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 18 | I , I says , I 'll let you know sometime today or tomorrow and er anyway , he was expecting me to say at least two or three or four weeks you know er because I 'd put the situation I had no tools , no nothing and erm I er had a look at it and I thought what I could do , and I says I can let you have them in a week . |
| 19 | And then the old keeper used to come round and see that we were all right and they 'd be there till the following day and carry on for about three or four weeks you see . |
| 20 | She 's got three or four presents I think . |
| 21 | Although in September 1939 he did not seem sure whether he would be able to compose any more poetry — it was a time when any kind of " plan " seemed futile — within three or four months he did start work upon another poem . |
| 22 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 23 | after three or four years they thought they might move so , we said well take out a P S P cos that provides a savings vehicle , and if you do move you can use that as part of the mortgage increase . |
| 24 | It thinks in years , not months or weeks : the three or four years it takes to reach a degree ; the similar or longer period needed for a doctorate ; the intellectual shifts that occur over decades , even centuries . |
| 25 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Mainly for where it 's lived for the last three or four years I think . |
| 27 | Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ . |
| 28 | However , during the past three or four years there has been a gross deterioration in farmers ' incomes . |
| 29 | Most of the courses lasted for 6 hours ( one day ) or 12 hours ( two days ) but over the past 5 or 6 years there had been an increase in the number of shorter courses . |
| 30 | For about ten or twelve days we sailed on south , down the coast of Africa . |