Example sentences of "or so [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their greater need is for explanations — or so their interest in these lessons suggests . |
| 2 | For the past 16 years or so their matrimonial home has been 151 , Farnham Lane , Slough . |
| 3 | Or so their papers claimed . |
| 4 | And the Sainsburys , Tescos and Safeways of the world are the people with the financial clout and organisational know-how to spend the £15million or so which it takes to buy the land , negotiate the planning hurdles , employ a builder and stock the shelves to open a new superstore on a good site . |
| 5 | By contrast , during the century or so which separated the Reformation from the civil war , very few English parish churches were built or substantially renovated . |
| 6 | That is being helped by the change in the turkey processing market in the past 15 years or so which has led to two-thirds of the national output , worth a total of £300 million a year , being eaten in portion and added value form . |
| 7 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 8 | For a second or so we are undecided about whether the patch is an after-image or a spot of mildew on the wall . |
| 9 | After 10 minutes or so we both got the most appalling horrors . |
| 10 | After an hour or so we reached a Slovak village with houses in the traditional wood construction with wooden roofs . |
| 11 | It was part of the mystique , or so we thought . |
| 12 | Fitzgerald then served out for the set to turn the match into a real struggle , or so we thought , but Grabb and McEnroe stepped up a gear midway through the fourth set to take control . |
| 13 | Over the past decade or so we have also seen changes in our lifestyle with dogs . |
| 14 | We believe that this common factor is so important that during the past year or so we have experimented in ways of bringing the participants together to discuss their ideas and to foster the creation of a spirit of community . |
| 15 | Or so we were told . |
| 16 | Or so we think . ’ |
| 17 | All of us would arise in due course like Venus from the waves — shining , lovely , renewed , with sharp neat cuts , elegant waves or subtle highlights — or so we hoped ; it was an act of faith . |
| 18 | A lot of us go to Exhibitions and come home with real bargains ( or so we tell our husbands ! ) . |
| 19 | In a week or so we 're due for recall . |
| 20 | I stayed like that for the minute or so we waited at the Lochgair station platform , and did n't stir again — yawning convincingly for any other passengers who might be watching — until we were crossing the viaduct at Succothmore . |
| 21 | It was one of the cleverest retorts of his childhood ; it went down in family history , and it won him — or so we are left to assume — readership of the novel . |
| 22 | The course was designed to increase the times from the 100 seconds or so we usually get at Peterborough with one section working upstream on the jet . |
| 23 | ‘ In the last ten years or so we have developed a number of ancillary services , which have grown out of our core business . |
| 24 | Ah , Mary , Mary Shelley , how dear you were and are , beyond all women — and yet what was possible then was only possible because we were mere phantoms in the world , or so we saw it , and scarcely less than phantoms to each other . |
| 25 | Maybe in a year or so we 'll stop using contraceptives . ’ |
| 26 | to ward it off , or so we gathered , |
| 27 | We were pleased to find the palace deserted ( or so we thought ) except for the usual steward and bailiffs who stayed throughout the year to clean the rooms , wash the hangings and sweep out the dirt once the court moved on . |
| 28 | Forrester seems to have played a lovely game , or so we are told by the Sunday tabloids . |
| 29 | Now if we go back to two years ago on the question of whether or not we should accept erm almost do n't think you 'll get any reply the professional advice of an officer , two years ago or so we had the professional advice of an officer , we were looking at yearly report of the er inspector and |
| 30 | and w w w we are either half controlled or we 're , we can now see that you know the civil war is , is going so quickly our way that we are going to have control within a year or so we are likely to have control over the economy as a whole . |