Example sentences of "so of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 10 per cent or so of the population which votes for Sinn Fein appears to approve of , or at least to tolerate readily , the IRA 's attempts to kill soldiers and policemen . |
| 2 | For the browsers there is Golf : The Golden Years , a pictorial anthology by Sarah Baddiel celebrating the last few years of the 19th century and the first 40 or so of the 20th . |
| 3 | The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence . |
| 4 | Unemployment is up another 17 per cent ; more houses and shops are boarded up ; burglaries and joyriding continue — and if there is less ram-raiding it is only because 50 or so of the hardest cases are still behind bars . |
| 5 | It was conceived as the highest body in the land , 1,000 or so of the most powerful figures in industry , agriculture and science . |
| 6 | Corn was shipped along the Stroudwater canal to Oil Mill , although it may well be that the last half mile or so of the Painswick Stream was once navigable . |
| 7 | Itching will begin within an hour or so of the invasion , and the vigorous scratching induced may well abort the attack . |
| 8 | Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords . |
| 9 | Sadler was expressing the widely-shared belief among reformers that , given the prevalence of machinery , the labour demand of the present , and even more so of the future , was for ‘ skilled and versatile minds ’ . |
| 10 | The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed . |
| 11 | The twenty years or so of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars produced a very rapid rise indeed in food prices . |
| 12 | Naturally enough , this called forth the response , ‘ Why speak ye so of the mirth that is in Heaven ? |
| 13 | Such was the popularity of film and such was the reforming zeal of that first decade or so of the twentieth century that there must have been every possibility that other agencies would take up the chance of producing , distributing , and exhibiting films in their own halls . |
| 14 | Most surprising of all , indeed in his teaching was his insistence that painting a complete structure picture from nature , so fundamental a tenet not only of most traditionalists , but even more so of the Impressionists , was not only undesirable , but impossible . |
| 15 | Paul appears on the scene within a year or so of the Crucifixion . |
| 16 | It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation . |
| 17 | In the woman sensation is experienced through the clitoris and — although less intensely — in the first inch or so of the vagina ; there is also a ring of nerves around the mouth of the uterus which may or may not come into play . |
| 18 | The first hundred yards or so of the level were stone dressed and arched over our heads in a well-made curve . |
| 19 | Only a dozen or so of the creeps in the black nighties , but they 've got heavy weapons . |
| 20 | Justice Model writers were also mostly sceptical of the effectiveness of deterrence and even more so of the validity of deriving a just tariff from deterrent considerations ( as Beccaria and Bentham claimed to do ) . |
| 21 | In all the instances concerned in this case , the goods were traced and the thefts had occurred within a day or so of the goods being presented to Stardust Jewellers . |
| 22 | So of the ninety two , why ? |
| 23 | I observed him warily , waiting for the outburst I felt certain was infusing along with the coffee , but he remained impassive and finished the meal by stoically downing a litre or so of the espresso blend , a large tin box of Amaretti di Saronno and eight grappa . |
| 24 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 25 | They were both guests at T'zin 's house — two among fifty or so of the Khans and Noyons who , apart from Burun , were probably the most powerful and influential men in the Khanate . |
| 26 | ‘ And dangerous , ’ said Caspar , with a backwards glance to where Goibniu was standing before the fire in thy characteristic pose , thumbs in belt , surrounded by half a dozen or so of the others . |
| 27 | ( d ) Continue to fill the basket with soil/compost to within an inch or so of the top , and then cover with a layer of pea shingle . |
| 28 | The bottom five notes or so of the violins can be enriched by adding a bassoon or two in unison . |
| 29 | That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her . |
| 30 | These temperatures are consistent with the apparent rigidity of the outer 200 km or so of the Moon and with the strong attenuation of S waves beyond about 800 km , and with the large area to mass ratio of the Moon . |