Example sentences of "[coord] so [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Until ten years or so ago a bundle of similar envelopes had lain in a drawer of her desk ; one day in a fit of vigour she had torn them up and thrown them away .
2 We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph .
3 A week or so later a Miss Symes walked up the drive with two whippets at heel .
4 A year or so later the guitars that really killed the Levin came in — the first flat-top Yamaha acoustics .
5 But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school .
6 Since the progress zone 's existence is dependent on a signal from the ridge , removal of the ridge results in the disappearance of the progress zone and so effectively the clock in the cells is stopped permanently .
7 In order to buy the oil off us , they had to pay sterling and so hence the demand for sterling goes up and suddenly we were viewed as a very rich economy .
8 G. On the western lowlands Chester ( 58 000 people ) is a central place where the Romans and the Normans defended what was once the lowest bridging point over the River Dee and so also the route into northern Wales .
9 Corinne Gotch , Booksellers Association marketing executive and NBS committee member , commented : ‘ Fewer booksellers are taking part , and so clearly the sale needs to be re-examined from both a bookselling and publishing point of view to see what can be cone to encourage greater participation . ’
10 So I took the name and address and so eventually a summons came through for this old lady .
11 Erm , yeah we , we did take direct action and so eventually the ad was dropped , but if we 'd just complained and not taken any action the ad would n't have been dropped .
12 Alternatively the mother may not offer the food quickly enough and so eventually the child loses concentration and interest .
13 Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with
14 Well I would n't be here because a horse was used for a toxin to provide the anti-toxin for diphtheria whe , in my days when I was younger there was no toxins as such , vaccination as such and so therefore the horses were used for research to provide the anti-toxins .
15 And as they went on , you know , it was gradually working up and so therefore the graph , each man 's productivity you know , was rising .
16 The bonanza went on until the church thought enough was enough and so on a Sunday evening in August , a concerted effort was made and strong sermons were preached from every pulpit against bee wine and its evil effects .
17 And so on the whole the unions in Britain have seen this as a way of catching some people who otherwise would fall through the net entirely .
18 Depending on the company , excluding any one or more of these items could have a dramatic effect on the volatility of its results , and so on the element of risk in its PRP scheme .
19 And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait .
20 Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected .
21 And so far the buses and the trains seem to be running rather well .
22 Still , they were making an effort , putting on cheap food and jazz bands and so far the locals from the high rise flats across the road seemed to be accepting them .
23 Apartheid arguments over , the Commonwealth 's now seeking a new role spreading democracy , but the assembly lacks stars and so far the Cypriots have stolen the show .
24 And so far the revenue have been going yeah , yeah , go away go away .
25 The days for R&D are over : we need demonstration , and so far the Prototype Fast Reactor has demonstrated only that the non-nuclear bits of the technology do n't work particularly well .
26 The Sackvilles were considerable landowners and so quite an inheritance was at stake — enough at any rate to turn Richard into the classic professional litigant before both lay and ecclesiastical courts .
27 Such rocks are rare in the forest , and so sometimes a queue forms to use one .
28 A deserted Disneyland-style House of Horrors , populated by ghosts , vampires and Frankenstein 's monster , proves equally useless in delaying or confusing the Daleks , and so reluctantly the Doctor decides they must stand and fight .
29 This reduces the advantage to the raider , and so too the likelihood of a takeover .
30 In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity .
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