Example sentences of "or [num] [prep] [pron] " 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 | S. H. There was a lot of us on reserve duty at St George 's Hall , about forty or fifty of us , and one bloody bobby sat there with us and they sent for him . |
| 6 | Oh yes I can , about forty or fifty of us to a class . |
| 7 | That 's alright I hope , if you can cope with that but , if , if I would be a just a little bit upset if all thirteen of you went off together or eleven of you . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | The Support Force would usually arrange for a team of five or eight of its members with a mix of skills and background to spend one day fact-finding and give hard-hitting feedback . |
| 12 | And of course the door was shut then , and there 'd be just seven or eight of us left on the dance floor . |
| 13 | Or was that last year what seven or eight of us was n't it ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ About thirty or forty of them , all from April 1945 . |
| 16 | He was adamant — although all the shareholders in the motor car felt it was time , as one did at school , to say look " I am involved " , but Buster was quite insistent that it was pointless 10 or 12 of us being flogged . |
| 17 | We saw , for example , in Section 18.4 that in transition in jets and other free shear flows randomness appears to develop continuously ; it would be difficult to assign a stage in Fig. 18.11 or 18.12 at which the motion is first turbulent , and it may be impossible . |
| 18 | Two hundred people were milling about the room ; 20 or 30 of them were hugging each other in greeting . |
| 19 | Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year . |
| 20 | In the event of circumstances arising under 1 or 2 above which require the Insurers to notify the Society of the reduction or cancellation of cover the Insurers shall during the period from such reduction or cancellation until ten days after notification of the Society indemnify the Society against losses to the same extent as if cover had not been reduced or cancelled and if the Society shall within seven days of notification by the Insurers inform the Insurers that it wishes cover to continue on the same terms as if it had not been reduced or cancelled the Insurers shall indemnify the Society against losses on such terms for such period not exceeding six months as the Society shall specify and the Society shall be responsible for the payment of premium for such cover . |
| 21 | Sometimes they include both books , sometimes 1 or 2 by themselves . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Five or six of them , all in a carrier bag , all under different names . |
| 24 | We have had a plethora of reduction schemes and concessional allowances — five or six of them — and they will go on . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And be about five or six of us left then , and we were just getting ready to get off when we got hit by the second big blast , which caused most of the burns to all of us then . |
| 27 | On a first reading it seems puzzling that the ‘ Poorer Growth ’ camps should be those of five or six of our best camp managers whose experience of diet is exceptional , and that the ‘ Good Growth ’ camps should include two Managers whose catering has constantly to be reviewed as not up to our standard . |
| 28 | But on a Sunday erm the restaurant is open from twelve o'clock so what you 've got to I mean if you want a table for say , four or six of you |
| 29 | So he rode to the farm with five or six of his evil friends . |
| 30 | There was about twelve or thirteen of us there . |