Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] or so " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the mathematics master , now dribbling freely , his face contorted with hatred , continued to dance from foot to foot , watched impassively by the ninety or so young British citizens of the Wimbledon Islamic Day School ( Independent Boys ’ ) . |
| 2 | But then they would have to tell shareholders why only half of the consolidated profits of MEPC comes from the 700 properties it has assembled — with the other half provided by the 20 or so Oldham properties . |
| 3 | Under pressure from the Serbian government , and sometimes violent attack by the 10,000 or so armed Serb toughs in the province , up to 100,000 people may have left Kosovo in the past couple of years . |
| 4 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 5 | Integrated circuits are available in which everything except the switching control transistor , smoothing capacitors and the necessary inductances are built in , and a supply can be fabricated by a dozen or so connections to the chip . |
| 6 | My two daughters are lucky enough to go frequently to their friends ' parties , invariably attended by a dozen or so children clutching a present which has cost their parents between £3 and £5 . |
| 7 | The implants used to replace the hip are manufactured for this market by a dozen or so companies , many of which are multinationals with their main marketing base in the United States . |
| 8 | Yesterday he was at Hartlepool Labour Hall , surrounded by a dozen or so women shoving leaflets into envelopes . |
| 9 | The arithmetic alone shows that this Government is only prone to defeat when there is an issue over which all the non-government parties intend to vote the same way ( ie including the Official and Democratic Unionists , plus the self-styled popular Unionist , Sir James Kilfedder ) and where that total is topped up by a dozen or so Tory malcontents . |