Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] or so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 2 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 3 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 4 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 5 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 6 | I am not due home for another year or so and I hope that by then a little more of the Peruvian culture and faith will have rubbed off on me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's probably best not to feed your fish for the first day or so as they settle in ( though some fish will feed within a few minutes of being stocked ) . |
| 9 | RIVER CROSSENS : Good fishery but often slow for the first week or so until fish located . |
| 10 | It is tempting to lop off a discreet year or so but be careful with other dates ; will they believe you took your degree at 15 ? |
| 11 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 14 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 17 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 18 | The RFU sponsored yearbook , edited by Barrie Fairall of the Independent and published by Harrington Kilbride , is also due to hot the shelves at some stage over the next month or so and is very good value , as is the Whitbread Rugby World Yearbook , edited by Adrian Stephenson and Ian Robertson and produced by Leonard Associates — a rip-roaring book even if the staff of RW&P ( all contributors to this fine , fine publication ) say so . |
| 19 | I think it would be nice if we all got together so will we aim to do that sometime in the next month or so and I 'll tell Napier that that we 're doing that |
| 20 | In fact I have made one very important friend in the past week or so and it 's ironic that your last letter is responsible for this friendship ! |
| 21 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |
| 22 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Always rehang the hooks about every twelfth row or so and never leave them in place if you have to leave the work . |
| 25 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 26 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 27 | Well , she 's been having an affair with this bloke for the last year or so and then out of the blue he turned round and … |
| 28 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 29 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 30 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |