Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] or so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amid the stark , and in places green-hued contours of the half mile or so of cliff and tumbled boulders that is Froggatt , there exists a wealth of entertaining and varied climbing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Cold predominates : the mean temperature in some months in the North American tundra may be -30°C , and in Siberia an astonishing -50°C ; and in summer , the ground may remain frozen solid ( ‘ permafrost ’ ) except for the top metre or so . |
| 5 | Up to the sixteenth century or so , most people in Britain lived in the countryside . |
| 6 | THE retinal fovea , which corresponds to the central degree or so of vision , is spatially over-represented in the visual cortex . |
| 7 | Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so . |
| 8 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 9 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 10 | It has often provided dates where there was previously no method of dating available at all , and for many periods , accuracy to the nearest century or so is far better than produced by previous dating methods . |
| 11 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 12 | For the first day or so after the flight you might find it helps to retire to bed one or two hours earlier than your normal time — but no earlier than that ! |
| 13 | A ‘ lie-in ’ of one to two hours but no more is permissible for the first day or so . |
| 14 | After the first day or so some people are able to operate their own catheters . |
| 15 | But only for the first day or so ; after a week I ca n't wait to return to Koraloona . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | And from a bonding point of view , breastfeeding — even for the first day or so — is very valuable . ’ |
| 18 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 19 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 20 | For the first year or so some of the people , particularly in the big independent television ( ITV ) companies , were incredibly scornful of both Liz Forgan and myself . |
| 21 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 22 | AT&T says it expects ‘ several hundred ’ of its 11m million business customers in the US to ‘ express interest ’ in the new services in the first year or so — but will that interest be turned into contracts ? |
| 23 | There may be a significant fall in volume in the first year or so , but while the third party suppliers to Technology may feel that they have no alternative but to withdraw their products , they look like being the net losers as a result , while ICL sheds crocodile tears all the way to the bank . |
| 24 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 25 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Oh yeah cos I was a couple of years later than that , so I managed to , sort of , avoid the first year or so |
| 28 | There were an awful lot of teething troubles in the first year or so , but it is working very well . |
| 29 | If you neglect to make this allowance , the first second or so of each shot will be lost as it is assembled onto the copy . |
| 30 | 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 . |