Example sentences of "[conj] so [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this level of the bay there were small promontories every hundred metres or so along the main catwalk and Rostov walked out onto one of them . |
| 2 | Nine out of ten of the 2/2 Independent Company were from the dry country districts of Western Australia , used to living in the bush , butchering their own meat , and improvising motor repairs — skills they found essential in living off the country in Timor and during their first year or so as an Independent Company stationed 250 miles ( 400km ) south of Darwin in the little town of Katherine with its corrugated buildings , its one hotel and two stores . |
| 3 | Many of the larger investment managers now concentrate on institutional funds or set very high minima of £1m or so for the private client portfolios they will take on . |
| 4 | That bridges much of the spread , but not all : it is worth maybe 5% , less 1% or so for the annual management fee that keeps Whizzquid on his toes . |
| 5 | After that , the manager went through the procedure adopted : a telephone call to the reference number cited ; verification of credit card ; verification of driving licence ; verification of home address ( the last three usually completed within ten minutes or so on the International Information Computer ) ; preparation , presentation , and signing of the contract ( including appropriate insurance clauses ) ; then , paperwork now completed , the car brought round to the outer forecourt , with an assistant to give the client a quick run-over of the controls , and to hand over the keys . |
| 6 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 7 | The University of Munich has nearly 45 000 and Berlin 's free University has more than 47 000 , with another 25 000 or so at the Technical University there . |
| 8 | Some guests hired cars , others strolled the mile or so into the pleasant seaside town of Loutraki , others never left the Club . |
| 9 | The period of authoritarian rule has given way during the last decade or so to a democratic system that is still consolidating itself . |
| 10 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would appear that edited departmental lists only accounted for £800 or so of the total allocation . |
| 13 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 14 | The ‘ going rate ’ — that is the rate for unconditional offers — is usually a grade or so above the minimum rate specified there . |
| 15 | Few 24-hour races ever go the full distance — fans usually burst on to the sacred tarmac 20 minutes or so before the official end |
| 16 | As well as the presentation , Jean was also given a retirement night out by her friends a month or so before the actual date . |
| 17 | I know that it is intended to begin wiring around 1 September 1993 and that it will be a week or so before the actual switchover from room 202 to the above sites takes place . |
| 18 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
| 19 | Check with the photographer that the material has been delivered a day or so before the appointed date . |
| 20 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |
| 21 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 22 | If Glynn had wanted a cover for visits to his woman friend , his charitable trips to St Ives served him well ; New Mill involved only a detour of a mile or so from the direct route . |
| 23 | Twenty metres or so from the grass-packed hill which looks over the Rabbit Grounds I switched to Silent Running , pacing stealthily through the long weeds and reeds , careful not to let anything I was carrying make a noise . |
| 24 | Kirby Underdale is a pretty little village , lying in a fold of the Yorkshire Wolds , a mile or so from the busy road between Stamford Bridge and Fridaythorpe . |
| 25 | These other departments are situated on two sites which are each a mile or so from the Main Library , and about two miles from each other . |
| 26 | Drowsiness is first indicated by a reduction in the frequency of alpha rhythm , from about 10Hz to 8.5Hz or so In a young adult , as well as a reduction in its amplitude , and then by its disappearance . |
| 27 | A perfect way to serve them is in a tart of shortcrust pastry , mixed with three or four free-range eggs and plenty of sugar , and baked for half an hour or so in a medium-hot oven . |
| 28 | These schemes , then , can be summarized under the following heads : we run residency and award schemes , we run grants to artists and craftsmen and photographers , we run an artists in school scheme , which involves placement of and artist for two weeks or so in a local secondary school , we offer payments to artists for exhibiting in certain galleries , something akin to the public lending right , we also provide assistance for the purchase and commissioning of contemporary work , and finally we run an artists ' register , which is a slide register of work of artists within the region , which is accessible to anyone who wants to come along and look at it , whether they are organizing an exhibition or thinking of commissioning a piece for their own living rooms , or perhaps a piece for their town hall or public library or whatever . |
| 29 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 30 | The evidence for increased transmitter release is strongest for STP , that is from a few seconds to an hour or so after the inductive event . |