Example sentences of "or [num] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hard hyphen is used in words or figures which should not be separated by a line-ending even though they contain hyphens : a name like Templeton-Brown , for instance ; or 1939–45 or -5 degrees C. |
| 2 | New developments — In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 3 | In the last 20 or 30 years Nepal 's population has near doubled . |
| 4 | Two or three times Finland got |
| 5 | Two or three times Mungo glanced behind him , imagining , as he had in the train , that the gap might close , cutting off retreat . |
| 6 | In two or three years Luis , Patricio and Lorenzo would be catching up with Miguel 's cousins , and by this time Miguel , who drank and ate too much , might well be over the top . |
| 7 | For two or three seconds Anna waited . |
| 8 | Apart from a handful of friends that were his own age , like Nicholas Soames and Lord Romsey — who were still fourteen or fifteen years Diana 's senior — most of the people Charles enjoyed seeing were older , with the result that Diana frequently found she was socializing with her father 's , or even grandfather 's , generation . |
| 9 | ‘ In 10 or 15 years William will be an adult capable of taking on those responsibilities , and the Royal Family may well feel that is the best option for everybody . ’ |
| 10 | After three or four minutes Quigley said , ‘ He 's in deep , deep trance . ’ |
| 11 | three or four days Mary . |
| 12 | The youthful Rundell appears to have shown his aptitude for business so rapidly that within three or four years Pickett , admittedly increasingly preoccupied by aldermanic affairs on his way to becoming lord mayor in 1789 , made him a partner . |
| 13 | Computer Managed Learning ( CML ) areas with one or two micros DD and UDU . |