Example sentences of "the [noun] [adv] [verb] [num] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The total of members ' quotas in the IMF thus reached 93,177,050,000 or about US$129,122 million .
2 The vessel now sails two or three times per week to dumping grounds off the Bell Rock and St. Abb 's Head .
3 ‘ Will you take me on the road here to see one or two things that I might like to see ? ’
4 She had arranged to lunch with friends at the Lion d'Or at Cologny and call in to the clinic afterwards to see one or two patients .
5 Each launcher in the SS-20 system can be used several times , and the Soviets probably allocate two or three missiles to each launcher .
6 The apartments here sleep 2–4 or 3–6 people .
7 Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed .
8 They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) .
9 When there is insufficient money in the estate of the deceased person to pay for the funeral and if the person arranging the funeral is likely to have a problem meeting the cost then sections 4 and 5 of this factsheet should be read before making any arrangements .
10 Wherever it 's working , the JFT soon gains one or two interested observers , says Mr Tomlinson .
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