Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he would lay out in a row the seven or eight letters from the seven or eight men who he would most like to meet and talk to when he got to heaven . |
| 2 | I have thirty or forty people who meet once a month for |
| 3 | He could n't tell whether there was a steady stream of them , or whether it was the same five or six Hunters who were torturing him . |
| 4 | They are maybe five or six gunmen who jump out in the road in front of the car and start firing shots . ’ |
| 5 | The police draw up a list of five or six people who , it is alleged , were seen in the vicinity and upon whom suspicion falls . |
| 6 | I must have bloody done so , because they both produced contracts and five or six witnesses who swore that , although I was completely paralytic , I signed them on last Monday night at the Duck and Forceps . |
| 7 | I mean the way we look at it really is to group villages together so perhaps they 'll have more cover if they 've got two or three specials who work different hours if they have a vehicle they can have access to , provide the cover there . |
| 8 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 9 | As the widest possible involvement is the key to the success of the whole best practice review technique , the interim findings are thoroughly discussed with two or three managers who have the necessary practical experience of the activity being studied before any final conclusions and recommendations are published . |
| 10 | One manager , who remains nameless , replied to the psychologists ' request for information thus : ‘ Please feel free to send your questionnaires to me and I will distribute them to the two or three players who can read and write and have an attention span of longer than two minutes . ’ |
| 11 | And th on the cherish you and whatever else and th erm , I mean we 've already got a situation where we 've got erm through Peter and David , the other two , I mean we 've got erm erm two or three breweries who are quite willing to erm to give us quite a substantial amount of money not as loans , as write-offs against barrelage erm which means that we do n't have any repayments to make etcetera . |
| 12 | Instead of having the children go through the small group work suggested above , the teacher remains in role as the Pied Piper and the children are asked to elect two or three representatives who will seek out the Pied Piper and try to bargain with him/her . |
| 13 | ‘ The DUC operated as a kind of umbrella organization and there was a little group in all the different localities where uranium prospecting was going on … and each of these groups had their own little committee of two or three people who were feeding back information to the DUC and it was a real grassroots organization then . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , if a couple decide to have children , they have children for life , it 's until they erm , get married and I really think we 're given too much of this me , me and my fulfilment of what you can be , and you forget that there 's two people there , or three people who are dependent on you . |
| 15 | Could it not be one of the two or three people who 've helped her with the writings ? |
| 16 | And in fact if if if if er we look along this line , at the moment we as I said in my introduction we have two districts or three districts who have expressed support for the principal , and of those of those one has given a clear indication that it would , this might be too , er high a phrase , welcome a new settlement , within its district . |
| 17 | A week ago I saw a monkey in the street jump on a donkey and try to wank him off — the donkey brayed and kicked , the monkey 's owner shouted , the monkey itself squealed — apart from two or three children who laughed and me who found it very funny , no one paid any attention . |
| 18 | The women by the next couple of street sellers paused in their shopping to watch her pass and two or three men who had heard her conversation raised their hats to her . |
| 19 | Many soldiers can trace back 3 or 4 generations who 've served in the regiment . |
| 20 | What I find very frightening is the campaign by Sir Thomas Hetherington in particular who erm as reported in the newspapers has said that there are er a handful , 3 or 4 people whom he has singled out , and he says the evidence is prima facie evidence against them , is so overwhelming that the law of England must be radically changed in order to bring a prosecution against them , and , as Lord Shawcroft said , well how , in such circumstances , could such people have a fair trial when we 've had the er Hetherington the former Attorney General saying , in effect , we know these people are guilty , we 're changing the law to prosecute them , and now you members of the jury must n't on any account er think er in er you must judge completely impartially . |
| 21 | The proportion of women with 1 , 2 , or 3 symptoms who had reported these to their general practitioner was not significantly different in those with hysterectomy and those without . |
| 22 | McNeile 's house , like the others , was run by four or five boys who were known as " the Library " — the equivalent of house prefects . |
| 23 | Erm , and we have had , I think about four or five people who are currently being referred on |
| 24 | I was in charge of a shift of , at that time , approximately twenty constables er four or five sergeants who do normal patrol work in uniform at . |
| 25 | This was a fluctuating group of four or five individuals who were responsible for the literary output of the organization . |
| 26 | ‘ I have 12 or 13 players who can hold their own with the best in the League but injuries would leave me struggling and I know it . ’ |
| 27 | I talked to about 30 or 40 people who knew him pretty well , and they all thought that they were one of the most important people in his life . |
| 28 | They were in the middle of the case , working in a building where bloodstained clothing had been found , and where two people whom the police had questioned about a missing boy had more than passing contact , yet they knew less than anyone . |
| 29 | They had only three or four NCOs who had seen action before , and 50 replacement troops had never fired a rifle before they reached Sparrow Force . |
| 30 | I mean actually decentralizing the power , by having groups of Ward Councillors , on an area basis , actually having the power decentralized to them and having open meetings in various parts of the City where you 've got the nine or twelve Councillors from three or four wards who 'd actually have a lot of power delegated to them , and so we would try and put power downwards . |