Example sentences of "or [num] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , there was a loose group of 20 or 30 Conservative MPs who identified with Eden and a similar group , including Brendan Bracken , Duncan Sandys and Robert Boothby , who identified with Churchill . |
| 2 | It deals with pains like appendicitis , coley cystitis , which is inflammation of the gall bladder — about nine different diseases — and it merely says to you at the end of the operation based on the last five or six hundred patients I 've seen , the probability of this patient having appendicitis is ninety per cent , the probability of something else being ten per cent . |
| 3 | and then maybe only one or two or three other interests you got you go to into very deeply the rest are just sort of friends |
| 4 | And to prove his point he cited beside the names of Matisse and two or three other painters who had been Fauves those of Robert Delaunay , Henri Le Fauconnier , Jean Metzinger , André Lhote and Marie Laurencin , all of whom were at some time or another involved in the Cubist movement . |
| 5 | And if you 're with National Westminster , you telephone a , a n a number in Manchester or Birmingham or two or three other places I guess but as far as we 're concerned er the Birmingham Manchester one 's the cheapest you , you ring them up and you give them A your identification number and it immediately tells you what your balance is . |
| 6 | Holidays are n't cheap — despite what some people say — and if you have two or three young children they turn out darned expensive . |
| 7 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 8 | The bank I pay cos there 's two or three different things I have to pay to the bank which they insist if you have a development loan you have to have this and you have to have that and that comes |
| 9 | ‘ In the race in which Steve was done , there were four or five other jockeys who hit their horses in front of the saddle . |
| 10 | When we went on holiday , perhaps to Eastbourne , we used to have four or five other couples who worked in the Post Office with me — we met down there annually and played bowls amongst ourselves . ’ |
| 11 | We have n't had to make a demand upon our congregation to make such a decision for twenty two or twenty five years you see ? |
| 12 | If , however , you find yourself carrying three or four such problems it seems clear that there is nothing for it but to go back and attack the first difficulties again . |
| 13 | Also on the floor were three or four framed pictures which had been trampled stamped upon , so that the frames were broken and the glass shattered to fragments . |
| 14 | As the description of Clark 's tells us : " Besides the girls , the able foreman is assisted by three or four skilled men who have the direction of matters and see to imposition and locking up , carrying formes and so on . " |
| 15 | He duly appeared before three or four venerable gentlemen who lectured him on how to behave in the Far East . |
| 16 | Among the Tories there are one or two rampant hindsighters who claim they knew what they were doing all along , and that the tax strategy was bound to pay off . |
| 17 | Follow this with one or two closer shots which show the family against this background : the adults might be sunning themselves while the younger members of the family amuse themselves in more active ways — paddling , or playing beach football . |
| 18 | Now I would be surprised if there were more than one or two primary schools which have n't got a microcomputer and of the secondary schools they 've probably got seven or eight of varying sorts . |
| 19 | I discussed in the previous chapter some of the political questions raised by subsidiarity ; now let me briefly consider one or two legal matters it raises . |
| 20 | And there may be one or two other things we work through over this meeting and the next meeting . |
| 21 | A grudging Thatcher admirer ‘ her principles might have stunk , but at least she was principled ’ he regards the Labour party as unwieldy , undemocratic , totalitarian , outdated and one or two other things we did n't get down in time . |
| 22 | ‘ If that 's where we 're going , Barry , there 's one or two small things we have to do first . ’ |
| 23 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 24 | Er well you one or two wise guys who have dropped in one or two interesting comments , but you know they 'll just cut those out . |
| 25 | It soon became clear that there was a struggle going on within his party , between the Communists , who wanted violent measures , completely unscrupulous , and the more moderate Socialists , aided by one or two older leaders who saw the promise of Aung San . |
| 26 | According to one or two bold spirits who had succeeded in getting into it , it was so badly constructed that when they jumped up and down on the floor the entire building trembled . |
| 27 | But after a while , when they got a variety of jobs to do , they , they took off on their own initiative and in fact some of them er without even advising the , the planning department er introduced one or two minor innovations which made life easier for them in regard to the work study man 's er schedule . |
| 28 | Only I 've come across one or two head teachers who 've taken out things like A B Cs recently , and they did n't realize that they would n't get a lot of value if they cashed them early , you know , if they cashed them within two or three years . |