"We receive maybe one or two per year," Ellis said.
"That china set they received — maybe they didn't like the pattern either.
When I left the continent at the end of 1994, I had only sent and received maybe a single email.
Behind Mr. Wilson's two sets of shades, it was impossible to tell what he thought about the way his old songs were so eagerly received: maybe better late than never.
If grades were handed out, Israeli soldiers would have received maybe a B-minus today from the small community of Jewish settlers who are shielded by the army in this city of faith and pain.
(Likewise, in the early days of "The Bachelor," which had its premiere in 2002, Ms. Pemberton and her staff received maybe 100 tapes from potential suitors. Now they receive thousands that use all sorts of sophisticated editing techniques to get noticed).
"I think my mother received maybe a hundred letters because I didn't cry," she said on American Experience.
"Since around the first of November, we have been receiving maybe two or three times as many calls we did during the good economic times," said Mark Rudy, an employment lawyer with Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & True in San Francisco who handles plaintiff claims.
"I thought that with the support that Father Roy's been receiving, maybe they would yield.
