Example sentences of "[conj] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind where so long as it is a public space . |
| 2 | It did n't matter where so long as it was cheap . |
| 3 | Have got today ( Monday 17th ) off ( yippee ! ) but have n't done much — slightly hungover from last night , I went to see Tex Mex with Ruth & Euan & some of their friends , the food was great , & so today had a long lie in then went to a few shops … which were n't open because it 's an Edinburgh holiday … |
| 4 | Of course there are lots of questions which would have to be sorted out — the difference is the Scottish Education system , & the courses offered , for a start — & you might well have doubts about cutting yourself off from your friends & so forth . |
| 5 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 6 | After five minutes or so both Rick and I were properly awake and using his scoop technique ( which incidentally had n't been quite perfected ) my first catfish was on the bank . |
| 7 | They can travel easily in silty water only a metre or so deep , and as the waters recede they can remember the way back to the river bed along deep channels . |
| 8 | On its summit , he excavates a bowl a foot or so deep . |
| 9 | This allows the development , at one end , of a spreading , shallow-pool arrangement 30 cm ( 12 in ) or so deep which can be readily converted into a bog garden . |
| 10 | ‘ We find that the pioneering work , the successful exporters , are really a handful of companies , maybe 100 or so right across the spectrum of technology . |
| 11 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 12 | Never had his mind worked so fast or so clearly , leaping on from one conclusion to the next , some exhilarating , some appalling . |
| 13 | At an ounce or so over 1½ lbs , its lack of weight may surprise you too . |
| 14 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 15 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 16 | Britain ended the war with 475,000 houses either destroyed , or so badly damaged that they were made permanently uninhabitable . |
| 17 | In an effort to remedy matters , Harriet decided to seek assistance from a tin miner 's family who lived in a small cottage a mile or so inland . |
| 18 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 19 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 20 | It could be an hour or so longer . ’ |
| 21 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 22 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 23 | Fifty metres or so up the slope , she began to waver and looked ready to collapse again . |
| 24 | A yard or so up the line from the bomb a swivel or ring is tied in as a back stop . |
| 25 | Lakewood guitars are designed by one Martin Seeliger , and they 're built at the rate of about twenty-five per week in a town called Geissen in Germany , an hour or so up the autobahn from Frankfurt . |
| 26 | If during the waggle the clubhead feels to be not at the end of the shaft but an inch or so up the shaft , in a waggle you would never be able to feel the exact position of the head coming into impact . |
| 27 | In 1974 real output was 5.02 million b/d , a million or so up on 1972 . |
| 28 | He had moved a mile or so up the valley to live at Bullhouse Lodge and work at the nearby corn mill . |
| 29 | She had been going to take a walk around Mariánské Láznë , had n't she , so a three mile walk or so up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home would n't be so difficult , would it ? |
| 30 | ‘ Yeah , ’ he says , opening the cigarette case to reveal a dozen or so neatly rolled spliffs . |