Example sentences of "[num] [noun] so [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the Gallery has extended the show 's run to eight months so that school children can see it this autumn and has moved the scheduled second venue , Detroit , to the end of the tour . |
| 2 | As well as carrying food , the CARE airlifts , which will soon be taking in enough seeds and tools for 50,000 families so that people can begin to help themselves . |
| 3 | The vials were changed every 10 minutes so that fractions of 4 ml were collected for each time interval . |
| 4 | Air traffic has doubled in the last 10 years so that Singapore is now served by 57 airlines , linking it to 110 cities in 54 countries . |
| 5 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 6 | The Founding Fathers declared that an ‘ enumeration ’ should take place every ten years so that members of the House of Representatives can be fairly apportioned among the states . |
| 7 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 8 | The consumption function is lagged one period so that consumption in the current period depends on national income in the previous period . |
| 9 | In northeastern China , Leeming ( 1985 ) reports that in the vicinity of the Great Wall in Shaanxi Province the desert margin has advanced markedly in the last 150 years so that sand now extends 70 km south of the Great Wall , and in the nearby Yulin area grazing land and arable fields have been engulfed . |
| 10 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 11 | The announcement of the England 12 for Lord 's was delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 12 | Coroner Nicholas Gardiner opened and adjourned the inquest for two weeks so that funerals can be held . |