Example sentences of "[noun sg] or so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 2 | To ensure you get a full charge , just leave on for a half hour or so longer than normal . |
| 3 | ‘ So I 'm blindfolded again , taken to this bus stop an hour or so away and when that bus comes I 'm right on it and no mistake . |
| 4 | The first culprit had been Paul Azinger an hour or so before but his slip had gone unpunished when Seve Ballesteros did the same with his approach to the green . |
| 5 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 6 | It allowed me to work for up to a minute or so rather than seconds , as with a sable , before reloading . |
| 7 | Correction followed a day or so later when Telegraph readers were told that the upturned finger had been employed in early-day meetings when congregations sang : The way to Heaven is straight and plain ; Will you go ? |
| 8 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 9 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 10 | The matches used to be held little more than a week or so apart but soccer has since switched to the Lent term . |
| 11 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 12 | The same applied a week or so later when I won the 100 metres at Gateshead against France and Czechoslovakia . |
| 13 | The great spotted woodpecker began brief but intense bursts of drumming in the second week of January which is a week or so earlier than in most recent years and many weeks earlier than was normal a decade ago . |
| 14 | They will find their enemy the skua already in residence , having arrived a week or so earlier and practising his piracy harrying kittiwakes or puffins until the terns come back . |
| 15 | We we saw him come on against Birmingham about a month or so ago and save that penalty and it 's ironic that that 's how Nigel Spinks started at at Villa was n't it when he came on for Jimmy Rimmer and if Bosnich does the same job as what Nigel 's done over the past ten years then no one 's going to argue . |
| 16 | I was at a concert with the children a month or so later and saw one rather pushy friend , who I could normally handle . |
| 17 | After about a month I rang and was told I 'd be hearing something soon , and when I did n't I phoned again a month or so later and was told the same . |
| 18 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 19 | The agreement stated that ‘ in consideration of such dfesire ’ the executors would convey the cottage to the widow for her life or so long as she should continue a widow . |
| 20 | In the back kitchen was a dresser , three pails of water a yard or so apart and a small scattering of drawing-pins . |
| 21 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 22 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 23 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |
| 24 | Growing in a neat upright habit no more than a metre or so across and two metres high at maturity , ‘ Yellow Hammer ’ produces a magnificent spring display of butter yellow , narrowly tubular flowers . |
| 25 | But Baldersdale does have one extra visual blessing rarely seen in the Dales — water , Hury Reservoir was built a century or so ago and it stretches sinuously up a major portion of the valley . |
| 26 | The availability of cheap and regular transport by train and tram promoted suburbanization in the United States too , though a generation or so later than in Britain . |