Example sentences of "or so [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wild fish grows to 20cm or so but the aquarium-kept specimen is unlikely to reach 15cm . |
| 2 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 3 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 4 | In what has always been a loose network , the international conference , held every 18 months or so since the mid' 70s , has always been most prominent in publicising the cause of action research . |
| 5 | In Shetland during the last forty years or so when the seine-net fishing for haddock and whiting was profitable , most of the gulls — mainly herring and black-backed gulls in the summer , augmented by glaucous gulls from the north in winter — got a good living by attending the fishing-boats . |
| 6 | If he believes Diana and Andrew Morton 's book have brought the Crown into disrepute what will happen in a year or so when the notorious biographer Kitty Kelley delivers her tome on his life ? |