Example sentences of "[coord] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village boasted a fleet of a dozen or so small fishing boats , which Ashley had seen setting sail at night and returning with their slippery silver haul in the mornings . |
| 2 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 3 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |
| 4 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 5 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 6 | From 1982–90 SCAWD ran a small investment company , one of the fifteen or so international support associations of EDCS , raising in that time some £250,000 in investment capital for the WCC development bank . |
| 7 | Previously , only the top forty or so top-winning show dogs were invited to compete . |
| 8 | The other three ( Vela , the Crab and PSR1509–58 ) are all associated with supernova remnants ( SNRs ) , whereas very few — perhaps four — of the remaining 500 or so galactic radio pulsars have convincing associations with SNRs . |
| 9 | IXI Ltd , Cambridge , claims that over 50% of the estimated 400,000 or so existing Motif users are running its X.desktop manager on top of their Open Software Foundation-based windowing environments . |
| 10 | A second approach Bush mentioned was that he would meet the 150 or so new House of Representatives members before they become captives of the leadership or the lobbyists . |
| 11 | These were a dozen or so stoppered glass bottles containing a selection of Wakelate 's most virulent and inventive poisons . |
| 12 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 13 | Its strongest American card is its 44% stake in Amdahl Corp , and while IBM appears to be playing into Amdahl 's hands in the short term , Amdahl knows it has to build a big new business almost from scratch out of Unix and its Huron applications development and delivery environment if it is to grow much beyond its present $2,500m or so annual business . |
| 14 | The government estimates that an additional 11,250 reports will be required each year , on top of the 250,000 or so social inquiry reports that were being called for in the years preceding the Criminal Justice Act 1991 . |
| 15 | Or so British Rail confidently predicts . |
| 16 | In the urban fringe it has already been shown in Chapter 3 that recreation can have an adverse impact on farming , but other work has shown that the 500 or so informal recreation sites which cover 5.7 per cent of London 's Green Belt ( Ferguson and Munton , 1979 ) are not heavily used by either car-owing suburban dwellers ( who leapfrog over the green belt into so-called proper countryside since they perceive the sites as being too near to be worthy of a special car trip ) or by carless inner city residents ( who spurn the use of public transport ) ( Harrison , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
| 18 | In nursery schools and classes , in England in 1985 , there were approximately 6000 qualified nursery teachers , 8000 nursery assistants , 3000 nursery students and 100 or so unqualified teacher 's aides or helpers . |
| 19 | Or so common sense should have suggested . |
| 20 | All the 1,000 or so retinal ganglion cells that are maximally excited by rotation about one particular axis , whatever their positions in the visual field , project to one of the three divisions of the nucleus of the accessory optic tract ; similarly all those excited by rotations about the other two also go to their appropriate subdivisions . |
| 21 | This has the same view as Philip Swallow 's , but is smaller — indeed , rather too small for all the furniture it contains : a desk , bookcases , filing cabinets , a table and a dozen or so unstacked stacking chairs . |
| 22 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 23 | The $10m trial of the wireless communications system based on very low-power , digital radio communications will involve personal handsets and microcellular technology to enable users to be immediately and constantly accessible — 1,000 trial participants will use the pocket phones to make and receive calls within the coverage area , on both home base stations and 500 or so public base stations in the downtown and other densely-populated or widely visited parts of Boise . |
| 24 | Going northwards along the Via Flaminia , about five miles or so past Spoleto , a signpost on the right points to Poreta . |
| 25 | This order specifies how the twenty or so different amino acids are arranged in a protein , how much is to be made , and when . |
| 26 | erm you know the each , I mean , basically we are , we are a world of a hundred or so independent sovereign states and each sovereign state can do what it wishes within its territory with the exception of Iraq of course |
| 27 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 28 | This is also true in connection with spelling , and so phonic knowledge remains an essential element in the language learning programme . |
| 29 | Expenditure by one party will be equivalent to income for another , and so total income must be equal to aggregate expenditure in the domestic circular flow . |
| 30 | The prediction would be for the ownership of cars to rise by 52,000 in 2 years , and so total market demand for cars in Panaragua in this period would be about 52,000 ( or slightly more , allowing for old cars being scrapped ) . |