Example sentences of "or [num] [noun pl] [adv] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could hear all the banging and screaming and then about seven or eight minutes later they dragged him out . |
| 2 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 3 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 4 | Only two or three hours earlier they had drunk tea from the same cup . |
| 5 | Two or three seasons ago it concentrated on excerpts ( including at least two showings a season of the dreaded encounter between Hawick v Gala ) . |
| 6 | I just think two or three years ago they took a |
| 7 | yeah , do you remember the one , two or three years ago who talked to do gooders , that he was , he was fine |
| 8 | You ca n't put date on erm , two weeks later or three weeks later it gets out can we just stick with a month |
| 9 | But if you miss only two or three weeks then you pay a little money — 23p , I think it is . |
| 10 | Two or three days later I read in the Scotsman that the jury of fifteen had found Meehan guilty by a majority verdict . |
| 11 | You see until er er he lived in er you 're on a about fifty or sixty years ago you know yes . |
| 12 | ‘ Then ten or fifteen minutes later I started losing power in my left arm . |
| 13 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 14 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 15 | Thirty or 40 years ago someone wrote a letter to Nature after tracking down its origin . |
| 16 | Three or four minutes later he heard a female with an Irish accent enquiring who wanted her : after a few cheery exchanges with the other inmates , she arrived at his pen . |
| 17 | ‘ Three or four days later I drove to Kensington Palace . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 19 | That may be it , and perhaps one or two topics only we go into some depth on . |
| 20 | And then six or seven years later I married again , but she died in nineteen seventy-three . |
| 21 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |