Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] or so [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However Crewe came back into the game a scored after 30 minutes or so when Strach misplaced a pass in the midfield where upon some Crewe player broke away and rolled the ball past Beaney and Hodge ( who only just missed intercepting it ) . |
| 2 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 3 | Once initial control has been achieved , a maintenance sclerotherapy programme should be instituted with repeated injections every three weeks or so until thrombosis of the varices has been achieved and subsequent periodic checks every three to six months to ensure maintenance of variceal occlusion . |
| 4 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 5 | The appointment of a chaperone enabled four women teachers to accompany this early party which spent eight strenuous days completing walking climbs of twenty miles or so and evenings listening to lectures on Ruskin and places of interest . |
| 6 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 7 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 8 | Snow associated the occurrence of cholera with the source of the victim 's water supply 20 years or so before bacteria were identified as causing the disease . |
| 9 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |