Example sentences of "[not/n't] so [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 2 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 3 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 4 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
| 5 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
| 6 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
| 7 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
| 8 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
| 9 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
| 10 | ‘ We played them at their place not so long ago and we drew 1-1 in a good , entertaining game so we 're looking forward to getting them back here . ’ |
| 11 | For example , we went to the thrift store not so long ago and picked up two pairs of flared pants . |
| 12 | Oh I went past there not so long ago and that radio station that 's got no listeners in Yorkshire has a huge advertising thing there . |
| 13 | According to Rupert Sutcliffe , the most senior member of the Department , and its most pertinacious gossip , there was a time not so long ago when Philip Swallow was for ever swanning around the globe on some conference jaunt or other . |
| 14 | According to Mrs Whitehouse , there was a time not so long ago when the Church was , and was seen to be , the defender of both public and private morality . |
| 15 | Alec Smith told vividly of the change he has found — from the days not so long ago when he was a rebel against all organised society , and cherishing hate against certain specific people . |
| 16 | And another instance of that was well this was not so long ago when we had a loan of a barge from just a mini landing craft sort of thing where the front of it folded down . |
| 17 | Not so much now 'cos they get a bit scared — but used to quite a bit . |
| 18 | He looked tired , in the bruised way that people who are physically slight do look tired , but not so much so that any of the congregation would notice . |
| 19 | But not so much so that we 'd junk a permanent commitment to a man in order to keep on our job . |
| 20 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 21 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |