Example sentences of "[coord] so and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |
| 2 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 3 | Dig down — use a stick , not your hand — for a foot or so and drop in a piece of paper . |
| 4 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 5 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 6 | A house of this size could take two men six months to thatch , and it might - need to be re-ridged every five years or so and re-thatched every twenty to thirty years . |
| 7 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 8 | It is best to start with a very short drive , just a mile or so and back home . |
| 9 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 10 | In fact I have made one very important friend in the past week or so and it 's ironic that your last letter is responsible for this friendship ! |
| 11 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 12 | If you wish to increase your writing speed , begin with sessions of two minutes or so and build up gradually . |
| 13 | In this case if our 50-year-old reduced his weight by a stone or so and maintained it indefinitely it may well be enough to control the diabetes . |
| 14 | He was never at the hotel after a month or so and that 's why it failed . |
| 15 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 16 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |
| 17 | I am not due home for another year or so and I hope that by then a little more of the Peruvian culture and faith will have rubbed off on me . |
| 18 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 19 | Your August issue was the first of your magazines I have read in three years or so and what an improvement ! |
| 20 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 21 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 22 | ‘ C ’ sajica reaches 4″ or so and is probably the largest species you could keep successfully in that tank and then if you have just a pair of them and nothing else . |
| 23 | Always rehang the hooks about every twelfth row or so and never leave them in place if you have to leave the work . |
| 24 | The RFU sponsored yearbook , edited by Barrie Fairall of the Independent and published by Harrington Kilbride , is also due to hot the shelves at some stage over the next month or so and is very good value , as is the Whitbread Rugby World Yearbook , edited by Adrian Stephenson and Ian Robertson and produced by Leonard Associates — a rip-roaring book even if the staff of RW&P ( all contributors to this fine , fine publication ) say so . |
| 25 | Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector . |
| 26 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 27 | Basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting Sun 's ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share . |
| 28 | This version should be available in a month or so and will possibly be followed by a Solaris version . |
| 29 | This version should be available in a month or so and will possibly be followed by a Solaris version . |
| 30 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |