Example sentences of "[noun sg] or so [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was feeling as if she 'd made a long , exhausting hike instead of just the kilometre or so that she 'd actually walked , but it was n't a bad feeling . |
| 2 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 3 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 4 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He appeared at her bedside late that night , an hour or so after she had retired . |
| 8 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 9 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Another quarter of an hour or so and he was solving Michael 's recruitment problems across the board , recommending a dozen good , reliable workers . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 14 | ‘ We can leave in an hour or so when everyone is asleep . |
| 15 | They then wheeled in unison into a shaft of light which held them for a second or so before they soared over the car and away . |
| 16 | ‘ You just keep on for half a mile or so and 't is up on your left . |
| 17 | For a few anxious moments Franco thought he was dead but he came round within a minute or so although he remained in a semi-conscious state . |
| 18 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 19 | You should try to prevent this situation arising , possibly by exercising the dog on the leash for a day or so if it has shown a tendency to behave in this fashion in the past . |
| 20 | Do come up for a day or so if there is the remotest possible chance . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For a week or so after we moved to Cornwall , I was free to have a great time exploring my new habitat . |
| 24 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
| 25 | I made a convincing show of joining in all this horse-play and appeared to enjoy it hugely for a week or so while I thought about what I could do to our cousin . |
| 26 | In the week or so since he 'd returned to his studio it had once again become a place of work : the air pungent with the smell of paint and turpentine , the burned-down butts of cigarettes left on every available shelf and plate . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to discuss things with the owner , and it will probably be a week or so before I make up my mind . |
| 28 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 29 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 30 | 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 ! |