Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allows the development , at one end , of a spreading , shallow-pool arrangement 30 cm ( 12 in ) or so deep which can be readily converted into a bog garden . |
| 2 | The hermit crab partly avoids this complicated and hazardous process by having a shell-less hinder part and protecting it with a discarded mollusc shell , switching into a new one in a minute or so whenever it has the need . |
| 3 | Shortly after Anna was born her mother married , and a year or so ago her husband died leaving her the house and a little money . |
| 4 | Six months or so ago nobody thought this could possibly happen . |
| 5 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 6 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 7 | When I first wrote ‘ you ’ a paragraph or so ago I meant it in the general , anonymous sense , universal second person . |
| 8 | A year or so ago I motored for the fun of it through Latvia and Estonia , from Riga to what was then still Leningrad , and never thought to encounter such ramshackle roads again . |
| 9 | If asked 10 years or so ago I would have said Pseudotropheus elegans , Ps. livingstonii , Ps. lanisticola , and an undescribed species ( still ) known as Ps. ‘ livingstonii likoma ’ . |
| 10 | I did n't know any details , but a month or so ago I had a row with my uncle and he said then that I must n't count on anything from him ; if I did I 'd be disappointed . ’ |
| 11 | A month or so ago I sat in an excessively warm room listening to a gentleman from Intel 's processor division telling the invited audience of dealers and journalists that 1992 would see a boom in 486 sales similar to the boom in 386 bought about by Windows . |
| 12 | A week or so ago I heard — others may have done so , too — Lord Cockfield assert that ’ the British people had no moral right and probably no legal right ’ to resist the demands of a federal Europe . |
| 13 | No , what I mean is er the new one sort of thing , the new Cher , it 's in the top thirty , it was about number three a month about a month or so ago I did n't know there was anything else |
| 14 | But Spittals is going to want to see results in a day or so otherwise we 're off to do some time on that robbery job . ’ |
| 15 | An hour or so later her telephone rang . |
| 16 | But at Lambeth Infirmary a week or so later they removed the bandages from his face . |
| 17 | Yet a week or so later she surprised Wilson by returning to this topic again , beginning , ‘ Wilson , you remember the Ogilvys ? ’ |
| 18 | A year or so later she told everyone that they must make an annual pilgrimage to that city , where she had a cousin in the catering trade who was prepared to give them all cheap rates , but by that time Rose was losing her grip on the faithful . |
| 19 | A minute or so later she had been connected and the reservations clerk was asking for details of her ticket . |
| 20 | A second or so later she was giving herself a mental shake and opening her eyes again . |
| 21 | I guess that plans were already being made when I was born , for a year or so later my Dad left for London . |
| 22 | Six weeks or so later my novel The Rivers of Babylon came out . |
| 23 | The early death of a sibling is an event which Dally cites as being common in the histories of anorexics , and a year or so later my baby sister died of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 24 | A year or so later his professional technique scored another success . |
| 25 | An hour or so later he settled in the jockeys changing room to watch the National , his father having travelled to Liverpool to saddle Foinavon and Buckingham having been booked to ride . |
| 26 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 27 | A couple of millennia or so later it was momentarily the capital of newly freed Greece , when the Greeks broke away from the Turks in the 1820s . |
| 28 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 29 | An hour or so later I was beginning to feel proud of our levels of determination and achievement as we topped out over the last sand dune , then my heart sank into my boots ! |
| 30 | I 'm not sure how the connection was made , in that I build canoes ( wooden canoes-wood — dog sled ? ) , but a week or so later I had a set of plans . |