# Elasticsearch bool should filter with result limit
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 25, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012 "2015-08-25T13:40:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@tushar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tushar)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012/1 "2015-08-25T13:40:56Z")
in the below query I want only 1 results from department "a" and two from "b"
but when I run the query the results are empty. Can anyone please tell
me where am I going wrong
```
{
"query": {
"range": {
"Date": {
"gte": "1440364380",
"lte": "1440450780"
}
}
},
"filter": {
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"term": {
"Department": "a"
size:1
},
"term": {
"Department": "b"
size:2
}
}
]
}
},"sort": [
{
"Date": {
"order": "desc"
}
}
]
}
```
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2015, 1:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012/2 "2015-08-25T13:54:56Z")
There is no `size` parameter on the term query. If you want to get 1 result from department A and 2 from department b, you need to run two queries.
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### Author:  [@tushar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tushar)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012/3 "2015-09-20T12:59:28Z")
Is there any other work around, because I have 20 conditions to match with the limit if I run a loop of individual queries the response is very very slow.
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012/4 "2015-09-24T10:15:28Z")
Have you tried running them in a multi-search request? [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.7/search-multi-search.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/1.7/search-multi-search.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-bool-should-filter-with-result-limit/28012/5 "2017-07-05T23:48:17Z")