Example sentences of "[conj] so [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The water level fell by two feet or so during the night , ’ said fisheries officer Keith Fisher . |
| 2 | They arranged to meet at half past four at a village a kilometre or so beyond the cemetery . |
| 3 | Twenty paces or so beyond the shed the road twisted out of sight , and it was from that direction the smell of burning was being carried by the breeze . |
| 4 | A hundred yards or so beyond the house there were steps down to the shore and , curious , he went down to look more closely . |
| 5 | Alsopahok is a charming village about a mile or so outside the spa town of Heviz and about 6 miles from the shore of Lake Balaton . |
| 6 | ‘ T is a mile or so outside the town , past the meaner suburbs to the east . |
| 7 | A mile or so along the sand , she sat on a rock , looking at the grey/indigo streak of Italian coastline . |
| 8 | Half a mile or so along the valley bottom , the path converged with another which led down the hill from the village . |
| 9 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 10 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 11 | After a decade or so as a librarian , and a spell as editor of Books and Bookman in the 1960s , Smith travelled around America with a suitcase full of samples of remaindered copies , which he sold to bargain book shops . |
| 12 | Employee trusts have increased in popularity over the past decade or so as a method of providing incentives for employees . |
| 13 | Andy takes the branch we hit the man with and wedges it under the grating ; part of it sticks through but there 's a stump where a smaller branch has broken off and the grating rests on that , held a half-metre or so off the stone rim . |
| 14 | When I 'm boat fishing I use a plain , bodied waggler , which I shot down to a quarter inch or so off the surface . |
| 15 | We came round , a quarter mile or so off the reef , and headed south on a parallel course , one eye on the depth sounder , the other on the maelstrom to starboard . |
| 16 | When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’ |
| 17 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 19 | After twenty minutes or so with the list broker you start to see the world as he does . |
| 20 | Another kind of formal link between sentences is the substitution of words like do or so for a word or group of words which have appeared in an earlier sentence . |
| 21 | Then they must find £20,000 or so for a cab . |
| 22 | Agfa 's P400PS runs at 18 original pages per minute but you pay £18,500 or so for the privilege . |
| 23 | Last year the economy in Penang province grew by 11% , compared with 8.5% or so for the country as a whole . |
| 24 | A successful tour is the priority — the icing on the cake would come if wife , Wendy , could hang on a week or so for the birth of their second child due a month before the end of the tour . ‘ |
| 25 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 26 | well I have n't discussed this with my learned friend , but it seems to me a date sometime next term would be appropriate , er which would give another term , or so for the plaintiff side to investigate these matters |
| 27 | The experiment involves injecting 2-DG into methylanthranilate-trained and control chicks , waiting half an hour or so for the 2-DG6P to accumulate , killing the chicks , removing and freezing their brains , and subsequently counting the radioactivity present . |
| 28 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 29 | After a mile or so on the highway Hugh 's pace slackened as though he were tiring , and Marian noticed that the colour had gone from his face . |
| 30 | There is an invisible frontier just a mile or so on the road north out of Luanda , but it is more of a feeling than anything else . |