Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 2 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 3 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 4 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 5 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 6 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 7 | We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue . |
| 8 | ‘ So I 'm blindfolded again , taken to this bus stop an hour or so away and when that bus comes I 'm right on it and no mistake . |
| 9 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 10 | In the back kitchen was a dresser , three pails of water a yard or so apart and a small scattering of drawing-pins . |
| 11 | The availability of cheap and regular transport by train and tram promoted suburbanization in the United States too , though a generation or so later than in Britain . |
| 12 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 13 | It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat . |
| 14 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 15 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 16 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 17 | Correction followed a day or so later when Telegraph readers were told that the upturned finger had been employed in early-day meetings when congregations sang : The way to Heaven is straight and plain ; Will you go ? |
| 18 | I was at a concert with the children a month or so later and saw one rather pushy friend , who I could normally handle . |
| 19 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 20 | Sawyer and Darton put the position accurately and succinctly in English Books 1475–1900 : ‘ Certain editions are valued for their peculiarities , their rarity or their beauty of production , but not , from a collector 's point of view , so highly or so often as the amateur who possesses an old volume believes . ‘ |
| 21 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 22 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 23 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 24 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 25 | This is again to put it broadly — that they must not exercise their powers arbitrarily or so unreasonably that the exercise of the discretion is clearly unjustifiable . |
| 26 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 27 | These changes should allow the bureau to release the first summary reports in late spring next year , some six months or so earlier than in 1980 . |
| 28 | The great spotted woodpecker began brief but intense bursts of drumming in the second week of January which is a week or so earlier than in most recent years and many weeks earlier than was normal a decade ago . |
| 29 | They will find their enemy the skua already in residence , having arrived a week or so earlier and practising his piracy harrying kittiwakes or puffins until the terns come back . |
| 30 | So long as a group formation persists , or so far as it extends , individuals in the group behave as though they were uniform , tolerate peculiarities of its members , equate themselves with them , and have no feeling of aversion towards them . |