Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students may find 92351 The Scottish Legal Framework or 92359 People and the Criminal Law useful as complementary modules . |
| 2 | ‘ Bryan uses seven or eight Strats and a couple of Gretsches — a green one and we 've just got the orange one . ’ |
| 3 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
| 4 | Some doctors like to fit an IUD soon after delivery ; others prefer to wait until six or eight weeks after the baby has been born . |
| 5 | Not a great place to spend five or six hours if an early start is required , but it was Christmas and we were in celebratory mood . |
| 6 | I have played here in England now for five or six years and no one has complained about the way I swing the ball . |
| 7 | for about five or six years till the house goes up and then . |
| 8 | It was the monsoon settlement of some other village — five or six huts and a small area of once-ploughed land , enclosed by a tumbledown stone wall . |
| 9 | A team consists of five or six couples and a priest/spiritual counsellor . |
| 10 | The benefit can start either four , 13 or 26 weeks after the policyholder is incapacitated and payments continue for 52 weeks . |
| 11 | This blurring of distinctions which to modern eyes seem self-evidently clear-cut was most evident in the lack of clearly-defined linear frontiers between states ; and the two or three generations before the French revolution saw growing pressures for greater clarity in this respect . |
| 12 | The native of Japan arrives at the station two or three hours before the train is due . |
| 13 | The needle is then withdrawn and the patient goes back to bed if he is an in-patient , or rests for two or three hours if an out-patient , before returning home to rest there . |
| 14 | The growth of the spherulites may occur in one , two , or three dimensions and the rate of radial growth is taken to be linear at any temperature . |
| 15 | He had returned from Gascony at the end of 1254 , after disastrous and expensive enterprises in France and in Sicily : in the following March commissioners were appointed for the sale of timber in the royal forests ‘ for the relief of the King 's debts ’ , with the assistance of two or three knights and the local Forest officers . |
| 16 | Apart from two or three cafes and a restaurant or two , there is little habitation . |
| 17 | The trembling Lupescu replies : ‘ Perhaps two or three dollars for an ordinary joke , but five for a really good one . ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes there were only two or three points and the quick QED had something of prestidigitation , of a sleight of hand ; even so , it was a compelling way of stating affectionate and didactic disagreement , especially before an audience . |
| 19 | Much more remarkable , however , were Gracey 's comments when it became obvious that his earlier hopes — ‘ If only the French would promise progressive sovereignty … say two or three years and the Annamites would be equally ready to meet them … ’ ( an almost exact parallel , so he thought , with Burma ) — stood little chance of fulfilment . |
| 20 | Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's . |
| 21 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |
| 22 | Yamamura said it may take two or three years until the positive effect of the yen 's rise appears . |
| 23 | The detail in a close-up can often be assimilated in a flash , and most need only be held for two or three seconds unless the subject happens to be a ‘ talking head ’ , in which case the sound governs the editing rather than the picture . |
| 24 | And you might get a a man that was er idle say for two or three month and the foreman would pick him up and say well , you know , can you put a squad together for tomorrow morning ? |
| 25 | Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord . |
| 26 | You see a working , well of course they do get them up nowadays , but in th you were supposed t to stay in bed for at least a fortnight after the mother was born but you a lot of these mothers used to hop out of bed when the midwife had gone , and , and I mean if they 'd got two or three children and a husband coming in and they had n't got a mother or a neighbour or somebody to come in and do the cooking , i I mean she 'd just get up and get on with it herself . |
| 27 | Therefore , they produce two or three children and the mother goes out to work . |
| 28 | And two or three temps and the rest were a couple of temps from the mixing plant . |
| 29 | The house was identified and purchased , and I do n't see any reason why we could n't have a stay of two or three days or a week to get time to move things properly . ’ |
| 30 | Moscow to Nakhodka , St Petersburg to Vladivostok — however one measured it , that scheme would be wellnigh 6,000 miles long , compared with a mere 3,420 for New York to Los Angeles or 3,500 miles for the never-completed Cape to Cairo . |