Example sentences of "or so before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Miss Thomas was breathing and a pulse was still discernible but , according to a statement from an inspector at the station , she stopped breathing a minute or so before an ambulance arrived at 1.33 a.m . |
| 3 | DURING the two months or so before the first shots were fired in the Gulf , the dollar rose . |
| 4 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 5 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 6 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 7 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 8 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |