Example sentences of "[coord] so [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contains sixteen or so essays , a number of entries from exhibition catalogues , a dozen public lectures and all Motherwell 's journalism . |
| 2 | But after a week or so things settled down again and the sky and the forest resumed their usual pattern . |
| 3 | Out of that 4,000 I saw maybe a dozen or so women . |
| 4 | Yesterday he was at Hartlepool Labour Hall , surrounded by a dozen or so women shoving leaflets into envelopes . |
| 5 | The 60 or so islands comprising the British Virgin Islands are a Crown Colony with an appointed Governor representing the United Kingdom sovereign . |
| 6 | Behind the small veneered wooden counter a dozen or so keys dangled from hooks on a numbered board , together with a few dog-eared official-looking proclamations . |
| 7 | With pride in his 42 or so inches , the midget was soon spooning his share of Dublin 's foaming romance . |
| 8 | Since the 1990 Budget , parents with a child in a workplace nursery do not pay tax on the value of the care , but women employed by companies that either ‘ buy ’ places at private nurseries or the 60 or so firms such as British Gas , National Power , Debenhams and BMW which issue childcare vouchers ( worth an average £27 a week ) must pay tax on what is treated as a perk . |
| 9 | Of the 370 or so firms to which Barclays is lending under the scheme , about 50 are developing new technologies . |
| 10 | In fact only about thirty or so states in the world today regularly hold competitive elections and of these only a small number provide an outcome in which one party forms the government . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 12 | He trod on a patch of ice and slipped , falling down the dozen or so stone steps . |
| 13 | To the right of the lodge were a dozen or so stone steps leading to a half-moon beach . |
| 14 | It is not generally known that nearly 90% of the 3,500 or so complaints received yearly are cleared up by the secretariat without the need for disciplinary action . |
| 15 | The Dutch government has now asked the Arts Council to allocate funds and the 300 or so galleries are now grouped into two categories . |
| 16 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 17 | In financial terms the sale will be justified if private sector ownership improves efficiency by more than the huge point-of-sale loss to the Government plus the £175 million or so privatisation costs . |
| 18 | After taking five or so minutes , they shared their designs with the writer . |
| 19 | BP is among the 40 or so member companies which subscribed to the formation of the training body . |
| 20 | He also contends that the senior rugby nations do not disseminate enough information on rugby injuries to protect everyone playing this game in all 120 or so countries . |
| 21 | Of the seven or so countries that secretly have ( in South Africa 's case , had ) nuclear weapons or are close to having them , only three are thought to have conducted a test . |
| 22 | But common monetary , defence , foreign or social policies will be hopelessly ineffective if designed to fit all 20 or so countries that could be members of the EC by the end of the century . |
| 23 | Ken chatted Belinda up so she said she would n't come round any more , or so Brenda reported . |
| 24 | This is — and we can say the same about a dozen or so batsmen in our region including Somerset 's luckless Ricky Bartlett and Gloucestershire 's Mark Alleyne — a crucial summer for him . |
| 25 | At the other point the primary experiment UA2 has been put together by 50 or so researchers from France , Denmark , Italy , Switzerland and CERN under the leadership of Pierre Daulat . |
| 26 | Accordingly , with 15 or so investments on his books , he stresses : ‘ It 's not the sort of job you can switch off from . |
| 27 | ( To understand the violence of this explosion , we can realize that a supernova may temporarily shine brighter than all the rest of the 100 billion or so stars in its galaxy put together . ) |
| 28 | Puzzles are abundant and are only put there to stop Zack walking freely around the 60 or so factory rooms . |
| 29 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |
| 30 | He then waved us towards a table where large fluted glasses of champagne were already poured , and Toby 's experienced eye reckoned that there were sufficient reserves of his favourite tipple to get the three dozen or so visitors totally blotto several times over . |