Sentence examples for kept one or two from inspiring English sources

The interrogators kept one or two returnees busy, propaganda sessions occupied a group in the morning and the early afternoon, and construction work on a small wooden house that was to be a recreation center occasionally occupied another group, but the majority of the returnees spent most of their time asleep, or simply lying on their bunks in the heat.

One of the households with pigs had no sows and seven households kept one or two sows.

As a young photographer for the Heilongjiang Daily in Harbin, China, he kept one or two frames on each roll of film after each assignment, "just in case on the way back to the newspaper office, something happened, I can capture it," he said.

Köhler frequently kept one or two prizes to assist in the search for targets.

According to one Republican Senate aide, "The Democrats could keep one or two of their people on the floor, talking all night, and they could request a quorum anytime they wanted.

"If I can keep one or two out of there, then I'm successful".

"We used to keep 20 or 30 of a size, but now we keep one or two or three," said Howard G. Winterfield, Mr. Karfiol's assistant, who has worked with him for close to 30 years.

Such a number could let the North keep one or two for its own use, and have more to sell, in whole or parts, which is a very different position.

Her KonMari argument is that you might keep one or two toys as a memory of your child's distant childhood, but not three pirate ships, a pirate island and about £300 worth of Playmobil fort.

Partisans of French cinema - for partisans they tend to be - usually keep one or two useful maxims up their sleeves, held in store for when they care to laud it over their anglophone comrades and their easy-going Hollywood fare.

Livestock breeders generally consider they would keep dogs even in the absence of wolves, for example to protect against theft, but they would then just keep one or two.