Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] so [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 2 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 3 | If it 's something you want the police there to deal with quite quickly and if , if they waited an hour or so and the police did n't come then could n't deal with it . |
| 4 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 5 | And President Gorbachev stood up there for about 15 minutes or so before the television pictures were cut . |
| 6 | Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind . |
| 7 | The bacteria reproduce every 20 minutes or so until the food source has expired and the smell gone . |
| 8 | DURING the two months or so before the first shots were fired in the Gulf , the dollar rose . |
| 9 | In what has always been a loose network , the international conference , held every 18 months or so since the mid' 70s , has always been most prominent in publicising the cause of action research . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To my disbelief I felt a resistance for a second or so and the rod sprung back over my shoulder . |
| 12 | It has assembled a team of scientists , engineers and railway experts to build a modern steam engine that will take advantage of all the advances in technology in the 30 years or so since the last US steam engines were built . |
| 13 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |
| 14 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 15 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 18 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 19 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 20 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 21 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 22 | In Shetland during the last forty years or so when the seine-net fishing for haddock and whiting was profitable , most of the gulls — mainly herring and black-backed gulls in the summer , augmented by glaucous gulls from the north in winter — got a good living by attending the fishing-boats . |
| 23 | Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop . |
| 24 | When addresses are required , these are needed only in case the clinic discovers an important infection a day or so after the patient has left and needs to get in touch in a hurry . |
| 25 | You could n't hope for a clearer sign of how things have changed in new music over the last decade or so than the sight of five eminent young , or young-ish , British composers applying their ingenuity to the art of writing divertimentos ( two of them even opting for late eighteenth-century period instrument ensembles ) as curtain raisers for last year 's Glyndebourne Mozart performances ( the promised Don Giovanni serenade by Oliver Knussen never materialized ) . |
| 26 | By the end of February , a week or so after the battle opened , the German advance had been stemmed . |
| 27 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |
| 28 | oh the timetable which I as well will , will erm , would be about two months , the first step has to be taken by the defendant because we do n't know yet whether they are prepared to oppose the structure , and if so , what sort of structure they would be prepared to oppose , erm , if and when , er a formal offer of structure came through , I would have little doubt that we could instruct accountants and get a response within a matter of weeks , sometimes one has to if they 're doing an commercial structure within a week or so because the offer is only open for ten days |
| 29 | All should become much clearer in the next week or so when the company details its plan for USL 's Destiny desktop — see front page — and a strategic focus on SVR4 . |
| 30 | The wild fish grows to 20cm or so but the aquarium-kept specimen is unlikely to reach 15cm . |