Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legs , perhaps of the same body have turned up and last year yet another body , or rather the 70 or so fragments of what had been a body , had it not been mangled by machinery , were recovered . |
| 2 | Cross bunkers are common 70 or so yards short of the greens , which are all well bunkered , some fiendishly . |
| 3 | They were not required to escort prisoners from court or to other prisons , this being a police responsibility in India , so during the day there might be 70 or so warders in the prison at any one time . |
| 4 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 5 | It is clear , therefore , that the 70 or so institutions which call themselves colleges or institutes of higher education comprise a sector of higher education which is more diverse than either the universities or polytechnics . |
| 6 | Estimates suggest that there may be enough coal left to last a few more hundred years , enough oil to last perhaps 70 or so years and natural gas could run out within 50 years . |
| 7 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 8 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyone could have killed Angela Brickell , but only a hundred and fifty or so people went to Sam 's party , and half of those were women . ’ |
| 10 | He had slight success with tri-iodobenzoic acid , but it was J. Lehmann , in Sweden , who found that , among some fifty or so compounds tested , p -aminosalicylic acid , commonly known as PAS , prevented the growth of tubercle bacilli . |
| 11 | As I drove the fifty or so miles back home I thought that I would rewrite the story , the history rather , of the Butcher . |
| 12 | Later in the war they built 1,135 Mosquitos , before going on to produce fifty or so Fox Moths — and then their own indigenous designs after the conflict ceased . |
| 13 | These fifty or so gifts , of which some twenty are known to have survived , constitute the true first edition of 1865 . |
| 14 | Leaving Fraser to deal with the occupants of the vaulted basement chambers Douglas and Ramsay raced up the twisting turnpike stairway to the first floor , where would be the great hall , followed by fifty or so mosstroopers . |
| 15 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 16 | When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly , the Trunchbull marched on to the platform . |
| 17 | Just below the glen the valley widens out into what is known as Rocky Valley , finally dropping off the map in rugged cliffs with a fall of some fifty or so feet down to the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 18 | ‘ Most of the fifty or so Europeans prefer to live in Tala-Tala rather than Anani , ’ he said adding , with a touch of sarcasm , ‘ They say they dinna want to get contaminated by big-city life . ’ |
| 19 | In part this dramatic result reflected a widespread but not necessarily dependable willingness to give the Republic a chance , in part the temporary demoralization and organizational unpreparedness of the anti- and non-republican right , whose fifty or so deputies seriously under-represented its true strength and potential . |
| 20 | He 's struggling along at present with fifty or so sheep , growing a bit of food for himself along with his winter feed for the beasts . |
| 21 | In practice there were two types of member : the fifty or so of middle-class or petit bourgeois origin who formed the backbone of the appreciative audience at Leese 's regular Wednesday night diatribes against the Jews at his London headquarters represented the core of the IFL ; there were also working-class members who engaged in street meetings at intermittent intervals and who were involved in direct conflict and physical violence with members of the Jewish community . |
| 22 | At the meeting it was decided to carry out a detailed analysis of the needs of each church 128 in all , of which fifty or so are of prime artistic interest and to calculate precisely the costs involved . |
| 23 | Like a lot of old slang words from you know like a hun fifty or so back years ago are now proper words now . |
| 24 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's perhaps a man of fifty or so ? ’ |
| 26 | In the course of the itinerary outlined above , for instance , travellers would come across a fair number of the fifty or so Emmental saw-mills , and from their observation of farms and farmland would be able to appreciate the force of the Emmental saying " An Emmental farm without woodland is like a bed without a blanket " . |
| 27 | It 's it we we took about fifty or so jobs that that were over a hundred thousand pounds , and then we knocked off erm the BES jobs and and jobs which were outside party , jobs where we had n't actually done the design work . |
| 28 | The man sitting next to her was like a porcelain buddha , rotund and self contained , the skin without a wrinkle despite being fifty or so years old . |
| 29 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 30 | This was announced at our February meeting and was met with great approval from the fifty or so members present . |