Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty or fifty of them . |
| 2 | There must have been forty or fifty of them . |
| 3 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 4 | There must have been about forty or fifty of them . |
| 5 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 6 | They 're the same guns — and bullets — that we use today , but in the whole village , only about seven or eight of them are left . ’ |
| 7 | Well I do n't mind doing one card , but I hate it when I 've got about seven or eight of them chuffing things ! |
| 8 | They brought the whole flock of sheep and goats , thirty-five or forty of them , on to the roof to tie on the lukals — the double-pouched woven saddle-bags — stuffed with potatoes and Tibetan salt for trading in the south . |
| 9 | ‘ About thirty or forty of them , all from April 1945 . |
| 10 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 11 | These things can happen in the best of families , and among the many pictures of the Rassendylls at home , you can see that five or six of them have the same blue eyes , the same nose , and the same red hair . |
| 12 | Five or six of them , all in a carrier bag , all under different names . |
| 13 | We have had a plethora of reduction schemes and concessional allowances — five or six of them — and they will go on . |
| 14 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 15 | He would then ask two or three of them to pray and they would close the meeting with the singing of a psalm . |
| 16 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
| 17 | One or two of the excellent ones was spent , was spoiled by a little bit of er need to erm edit very carefully introdu introduction of concepts you must be careful not to , if you 've got a couple of hundred words only , but do n't introduce er concepts diversity of design must of been er a phrase picked up from the video itself because it appeared in two or three of them , but it 's no use talking about diversity and divine is it , de design as if , as if it 's a concept which everybody else is going to understand . |
| 18 | Two or three of them who were on the main board solicited support from other board members ; they worked even harder to obtain commitment from the heads of the businesses , who would soon be board members . |
| 19 | I think you could learn all of those could n't you it 's just that there 's quite a lot of words to learn so they give you some funny ones like ox because it 's got a funny plural and there 's two or three of them you say oxen you do n't say oxes . |
| 20 | Although the LASMO bid covers eight blocks the reality is that the company — in the face of rival applications — hopes to secure maybe two or three of them . |
| 21 | Him and his sister and I think a brother and two or three of them but Jimmy was of the roving type . |
| 22 | Erm so you probably think , oh he 's got it now , you 've done two or three of them , let him do about ten of them , what 's six add one ? |
| 23 | None was formally invited , except for a late and not very attractive offer to Montagu , but Lloyd George would probably have been glad to have two or three of them had he believed that they would accept . |
| 24 | You can indeed Daphne , so there you are Rosemary do plant some shrub roses and even if you have n't got room for all of our suggestions I hope you 'll find room for two or three of them . |
| 25 | Erm , what I 'm aiming to do is to show you as many different techniques as I know , er , and if you pick up two or three of them that 's absolutely terrific . |
| 26 | About two or three of them , they have , at that end . |
| 27 | No somebody could go in there who belonged to the church anyway , two or three of them and it would n't take long cutting all those brambles and things away . |
| 28 | She 's had two or three of them home to stay and things . |
| 29 | I 've had two or three of them buggers but I think I 'd better go this time as I ca n't get no more . |
| 30 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |