Example sentences of "or [num] [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , you ought to know it well enough to write five or six lines about it , which is all you need for a book . |
| 2 | I have sent round a briefing paper , and rather than go right through that , what I 'd just like to do is to highlight two or three things about myself and about the post that I now hold , and I would be pleased to answer any questions that you might have during the next two or three minutes . |
| 3 | So could I presume to make just two or three points about the current ills of the NHS ? |
| 4 | To put it simply : I can never have just one thought about the spectacles , and if it could be truly said that I was only able to entertain , say , two or ten thoughts about them — if my thinking consisted of discrete , countable thoughts — then they would not be thoughts at all . |
| 5 | This was followed by four or five lines about the book being a miraculous first novel , etc. , most of which Mrs Frizzell failed to take in . |
| 6 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 7 | This might well be so with the control of aggression and of self-seeking behaviour ; I shall make one or two remarks about this question without pursuing it at length . |
| 8 | As I said before I need to take one or two notes about your current financial situation and I 'd like to draw your attention to the fact that any information you give me will be treated in the strictest of confidence . |
| 9 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 10 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
| 11 | well can we look please at one brochure , er take er C thirty one , C page thirty one it actually begins at twenty nine I want to ask you one or two questions about this , have you got page twenty nine ? |
| 12 | Basically , just let me ask you one or two questions about your service . |
| 13 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 14 | There have been one or two stories about youngsters who 've become reached a very high level in mathematics , for example . |
| 15 | Do you really feel confident that they know how business works and can help you learn one or two things about it ? |
| 16 | Being his girl and all she 's gotten to know one or two things about my business . |
| 17 | I ca n't resist the temptation while I 'm here just to tell you one or two things about the accounting application . |
| 18 | Let me just say one or two things about radio and see whether it makes sense to people , and in particular whether it makes sense to our colleagues from the local radio in this region . |
| 19 | He has a rule about her coming alone on these expeditions , but we have one or two ideas about changing the rules this time . ’ |
| 20 | Now having said that in , in er as a general I hope helpful suggestion , may I just make one or two comments about matters on the in the Government amendments which . |
| 21 | One or two points about this concept . |
| 22 | Now may I say one or two words about our various several of our bilateral programmes and er perhaps I will start with er saying a word or two about what the O D A is doing in Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |