Example sentences of "[conj] so of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Designated accessible polling stations , er will themselves have to cover fifty percent or so of a constituency initially and people will be allowed to have access to a designated station if their own station is one that has not qualified at that time , although the aim will be a hundred percent designated er polling stations with full access .
2 Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca .
3 The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed .
4 Itching will begin within an hour or so of the invasion , and the vigorous scratching induced may well abort the attack .
5 And study after study comes up , even in this brave new world , about the fact that only eight per cent or so of the child care is actually done by men , and this goes right across the classes .
6 The first hundred yards or so of the level were stone dressed and arched over our heads in a well-made curve .
7 ( d ) Continue to fill the basket with soil/compost to within an inch or so of the top , and then cover with a layer of pea shingle .
8 These temperatures are consistent with the apparent rigidity of the outer 200 km or so of the Moon and with the strong attenuation of S waves beyond about 800 km , and with the large area to mass ratio of the Moon .
9 During the later stages of accretion , at the very least , the outer 100 km or so of the Moon melted , large areas being molten at the same time .
10 The majority of the remaining seventeen hundred square miles or so of the county also comprises open countryside .
11 I observed him warily , waiting for the outburst I felt certain was infusing along with the coffee , but he remained impassive and finished the meal by stoically downing a litre or so of the espresso blend , a large tin box of Amaretti di Saronno and eight grappa .
12 The 10 per cent or so of the population which votes for Sinn Fein appears to approve of , or at least to tolerate readily , the IRA 's attempts to kill soldiers and policemen .
13 Presumably a twelfth or so of the population are Leos , and they are n't all self-opinionated , domineering , power-mad — ’
14 I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words .
15 Germany and Spain were eventually to become major producers of armour : within a century or so of the time of Barbarossa some of the most famous makers of armour were German , while Cologne became renowned for its swords .
16 That meant within an hour or so of the time at which Mary Penrose claimed that Riddle had left her .
17 Paul appears on the scene within a year or so of the Crucifixion .
18 The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence .
19 For the first year or so of the war , oil and gas operations in the Gulf , leaving aside the damaged Iraqi terminals , continued very much as in the 1970s .
20 For the first years or so of the war , oil and gas operations , setting aside the damaged Gulf terminals and the dislocation of the northern pipeline , continued very much as during the previous decade .
21 Initially , three sets of largely orthogonal joints develop , but as the overlying rock is unloaded by erosion the release of pressure in the upper 100m or so of the batholith generates a secondary set of joints aligned roughly parallel with the surface .
22 In the woman sensation is experienced through the clitoris and — although less intensely — in the first inch or so of the vagina ; there is also a ring of nerves around the mouth of the uterus which may or may not come into play .
23 One of the purposes of the Society , and so of the Journal , is to be a custodian of the history of the BCR .
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