Example sentences of "or so [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We find that the pioneering work , the successful exporters , are really a handful of companies , maybe 100 or so right across the spectrum of technology . |
| 2 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 3 | They caught up with him a mile or so away at the Plough Inn . |
| 4 | This means that there is a healthy 240 volts floating just an inch or so away from the Spectrum PCB and the keyboard . |
| 5 | They are prone to picking up camcorder machine and handling noise and are not very good at recording speech if the source is more than a metre or so away from the camera . |
| 6 | He then waited for the wasps to leave on bee-hunting expeditions , and while they were away he moved the cones a yard or so away from the entrances ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 7 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 8 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 9 | Mr Wilson , 25 , was last seen by his family as they prepared to celebrate Hogmanay at a relative 's at the nearby Charleston estate , but there appear to have been sightings a day or so later in the city centre . |
| 10 | Almost at once they heard the music of the hunt — the pack and the leaders , running crosswind a furlong or so downhill from the path . |
| 11 | There was an unexplained delay of five or ten minutes — perhaps while the searchlight crews came back to their action stations on the great lights , including the five-foot beam on the west bank a mile or so downstream from the port , and the light commanding the river from the end of the Old Mole . |
| 12 | Some more crag rats were further proving the delights of Yorkshire limestone , holding on to ledges with their eyelashes and hanging on to spars of rock by their nostrils , swarming in a team of a dozen or so all over the face of the scar like a plague of dayglo flies . |
| 13 | By the end of 1982 , about 1000 effluent licences were granted , leaving 600 or so still in the hands of local authorities . |