Example sentences of "[noun sg] two or [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some doctors used the instrument two or three times a day , six per cent did not carry one in their bag and half had used them fewer than 12 times in the past six months . |
| 2 | The actors try improvising the scene two or three times while I scribble down the lines that sound good . |
| 3 | Discipline yourself to having fresh air and a simple home-prepared fruit-and-vegetable lunch two or three times a week . |
| 4 | And if we can pin those down , and as Roger said , we 've also now , over the last few weeks co begun carrying out erm regular testing two or three times a day now on each of the floors and looking at the humidity |
| 5 | During this time they provided an average of five daily meals often baking bread two or three times a day in addition to tending the garden and cows . |
| 6 | But I do n't drink very much — it slows up the reflexes and I play squash and tennis two or three times a week . ’ |
| 7 | This is embroidered by hand , then passed through the machine two or three times . |
| 8 | They jogged through scrub two or three times as high as they were . |
| 9 | your dad usually finds he 's taken the same picture two or three times or more or less and |
| 10 | As Table 3.4 shows , most of the women shop six times a week , only four shop two or three times a week , and no housewife does all her shopping once a week . |
| 11 | How to use : 6–8 drops in a small teacupful of warm water two or three times a day . |
| 12 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 13 | Over the next 2 weeks she telephoned the therapist two or three times a week complaining of a variety of physical symptoms and demanding to be seen straight away . |
| 14 | He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake . |
| 15 | Score the sardines diagonally with a knife two or three times . |
| 16 | A sensible limit is two or three pints of beer , or four or five glasses of wine or measures of spirit two or three times a week — less if you are a woman . |
| 17 | Well , she went round that there yard two or three times there with the tumbril on one wheel ; and then the other owd cows , they were going about there , you know . |
| 18 | well it was that area , our mother used to go fetch her she us she came into our yard two or three times but I know |
| 19 | A trick I like to play when using a record or tape is to switch off the music two or three times to get everyone predicting when the end will come . |
| 20 | Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious . |
| 21 | Now 36 , he has 28 years ' hockey experience behind him and still turns out as a defender for Milan , training two or three times a week and playing in the Italian hockey league , which started a new season at the end of February . |
| 22 | She is sixteen years old and gets turned into a field two or three times a week . |
| 23 | Such important parameters as age at maturation and longevity are unknown , though it seems likely that krill breed two or three times in a lifespan of three to five years . |
| 24 | Tests show that eating lots of fibre or switching to polyunsaturated fats has about as much chance of prolonging your life as wearing a wig , but a kipper two or three times a week will have your life assurance rep collecting the premiums for ever . |
| 25 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 26 | Mr. Edminson refers also to many of today 's lady golfers as being professional ladies earning good salaries and who are therefore well able to pay for the privilege of playing golf two or three times a week . |
| 27 | The old man generally comes to dinner two or three times a week , as he has no one at home to look after him , and on these occasions he generally brings a ‘ bit of bacon ’ with him to replenish the Allen larder . |
| 28 | When he was pressured , the dealer might ring his client two or three times in the morning alone , selling shares and maybe taking some back to pay for it , a churning of stock that Harvard tacitly condoned . |
| 29 | They came to the house two or three times , but … but that was last week . |