Example sentences of "[coord] so to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Iznik pottery from Turkey dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth century explodes with colour on more sophisticated white grounds ; Iznik is now highly sought after by Turkish yuppies and prices run from £2,000 or so to £15,000 . |
| 2 | He sat in the back with him , for company , and chatted soothingly of nothing as the driver did the eight miles or so to Kirton , and swept into the riding-school yard . |
| 3 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 4 | And in the course of each evening numbers rose from a dozen or so to a hundred , and then diminished as people wandered away to supper . |
| 5 | This rugged piece of coastline , stretching for 100 miles or so to the south of the French border , is part of the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains . |
| 6 | From experience , I know it is better to walk the hundred yards or so to the rank outside Westminster Abbey . ’ |
| 7 | Jacky first took an interest in golf when he was about six years old : ‘ When I was old enough to be able to walk the mile or so to the course . ’ |
| 8 | The official plan is for oil 's share of consumption to rise from its present 50% or so to 60% in 1990 , then to drop back to 40% by the year 2000 through increased use of natural gas both in the home and for electricity generation . |
| 9 | Half an hour or so to dinner . |
| 10 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 11 | It will hover , and dependent on wind strength , the lines will be at 85 degrees or so to the ground , the kite stationary nearly overhead if it is a good performer . |
| 12 | In many cases , this delayed start will not be noticeable , especially if there is no important action right at the beginning ; the only real effect is that the shot is about one second shorter than you intended , and you will soon learn to allow for this by adding a second or so to the time before you press the button to end the shot . |
| 13 | They may take a week or so to work , but can kill most deep-rooted perennial weeds without being persistent . |
| 14 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
| 15 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 16 | Parsys does n't expect to have the SN9000 ready until ‘ late 1992 ’ — it will take three months or so to bed the new chip in when it does arrive . |
| 17 | Just a couple of miles from San Gimignano on the road to Certaldo , a turning on the left leads on amidst fields , olive groves and vineyards for a further mile and a half or so to the tiny hamlet of Pancole . |
| 18 | Two miles or so to the south lies the village of Stockerston , now shrunk almost to a hamlet , with its attractive Perpendicular church standing alone on the hillside — a sure sign of some interesting change in village history . |
| 19 | Yet in the late seventeenth century the road to Buckingham ran roughly parallel to it , a mile or so to the south-east , through Stratton Audley . |
| 20 | He made for the Druid 's Well , a mile or so to the east of the town . |
| 21 | Strangely , this is not one of the books mentioned by Mr Taylor , perhaps because the Sunday Times will be giving a page or so to it next week . |
| 22 | ‘ It can only be about thirty feet or so to the ground . |
| 23 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 24 | I wished I had a boat as we walked down the steps , through the gate and the hundred yards or so to her door . |
| 25 | From there she should be able to jump the eighteen inches or so to the towpath . |
| 26 | Just after nine she would join the throng of the prominenti and walk the two hundred yards or so to the conference centre . |
| 27 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
| 28 | For 75 years or so to 1918 , saddler William Watson occupied the foundry before moving to Skinnergate . |
| 29 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 30 | And so to tea . |