Example sentences of "they be [adv] [num] or [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are maybe five or six gunmen who jump out in the road in front of the car and start firing shots . ’ |
| 2 | It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship . |
| 3 | They are about sixty or seventy years old , and frail by appearance . |
| 4 | The keyboard and ensemble ricercari and the canzoni alla francese for ‘ istromenti da tasti ’ of Andrea Gabrieli were nearly all published posthumously when they were probably thirty or forty years old , that is to say not much more modern than the ricercari of Buus and Annibale Padovano ( see p. 234 ) . |
| 5 | They were both three or four years older than him . |
| 6 | They were around four or five kilogrammes in weight and were great sport . |