Example sentences of "[noun sg] or so [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 2 | But it was a moment or so before Agnes obeyed and when she did her voice was stiff as she said , ‘ And your son has given her a — ’ How was she to put it ? |
| 3 | The selection of the correct key added on another minute or so and Sandison could only look on feeling helpless and frustrated . |
| 4 | Returning to the All Blacks ' 11-match tour to Australia , the NZRFU has bowed to Australian pressure and loosened the grip on the Bledisloe Cup , for many years the symbol of Trans-Tasman supremacy , but which has only regained popularity in the last decade or so when Australia have been able to break the All Blacks ' hold on the Cup . |
| 5 | Salaquin Mandru sent word that he wanted to see his new Ixmaritian vibrancer a week or so after Lucien had recovered from his fever . |
| 6 | Today 's organised and systematic searches of the skies record far more red-shifts in a year or so than Dr Sandage has measured in his life — and have , in doing so , found strange currents , superimposed on the overall expansion , in which galaxies flow like twigs on a stream . |
| 7 | A year or so after Prince Harry 's birth , there occurred a rather uncomfortable interview with both Waleses in discussion with Sir Alastair Burnet ( in November 1985 ) , in which it appeared that their roles had been totally reversed : the Princess had become articulate , while the Prince appeared almost monosyllabic . |
| 8 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |