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Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] so [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1	Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish .
2	There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well .
3	She thanked me every five minutes or so until we 'd finished .
4	Erm it is a social gathering and whether people get er , er get rooked er , they get done or whether they get a bargain or whatever happens , they , they seem to enjoy it , but nevertheless it 's done according to whether you want to make money , the person owning the land wants to make a bit of money , there are a number of entrepeneurs who actually arrange and the middleman who actually goes round booking up the sites and so when you 're talking about charity a charity will get it organised for you by an entre , entrepeneur and then there 's the er the er the traders themselves , some of whom may be purely independent , some the , some may be obviously dealing with that ta erm that kind of aspect which is not exactly possibly legal .
5	We were at Speke only three days or so before we got our orders for embarkation .
6	They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile .
7	The odd day here and there is not important , but if you could let me know within the next couple of weeks or so when you intend to take a major part of your holiday away — if you know — I do n't myself know erm yet — but if you do know then I can have a look at the overall picture and see that we 're not all dispersed .
8	Psychoanalysts themselves undergo five sessions of analysis a week for five years or so before they can practise .
9	It will need renewing every seven years or so as it is not long-lived .
10	In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer .
11	‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared .
12	You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble .
13	Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing .
14	Still in his pyjamas and with his foot in plaster , he would hobble 500 metres or so across some fields until he reached a track , then carry on for another 500 metres or so until he reached a proper road .
15	It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door .
16	Then when we come back to stand down , we came back to Tolbertstead well we was in Tolbertstead so the Tolbertstead canteen staff got some hot prepared some hot drinks and so when we come back we was able to have a hot drink and erm it was the duty of er the sergeants to see that the rifles were empty free , no am no , there was n't er there was n't one up the spout , one bullet left in the , in the rifle and er Sergeant , the barber , was checking our rifles anyway he , he was check , check , check , check and er alright he mischecked one and pulled the trigger and there was a bullet through the roof in the , in the he was holding it up or otherwise there 'd have been somebody on the floor but er he , he missed this one bullet through the canteen roof .