Example sentences of "[noun pl] or [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 2 | but you got ta do two hundred words or less that you wan na be when you 're older . |
| 3 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 4 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 5 | He is just , I suppose , primus inter pares , as a Prime Minister , and erm that 's it is , as we 've both said , the next hundred days or so that you will probably see the real John Major . |
| 6 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 9 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 10 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 11 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 12 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 13 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 14 | It 's to do with having a balanced overview of your strengths and weaknesses and not using these to the detriment of others or so that others are able to exploit you . |