Example sentences of "next [noun sg] or so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 2 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 3 | The RFU sponsored yearbook , edited by Barrie Fairall of the Independent and published by Harrington Kilbride , is also due to hot the shelves at some stage over the next month or so and is very good value , as is the Whitbread Rugby World Yearbook , edited by Adrian Stephenson and Ian Robertson and produced by Leonard Associates — a rip-roaring book even if the staff of RW&P ( all contributors to this fine , fine publication ) say so . |
| 4 | I think it would be nice if we all got together so will we aim to do that sometime in the next month or so and I 'll tell Napier that that we 're doing that |
| 5 | In the next week or so until I met up with him again I was suffused with wild imaginings . |
| 6 | All should become much clearer in the next week or so when the company details its plan for USL 's Destiny desktop — see front page — and a strategic focus on SVR4 . |
| 7 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 8 | Basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting Sun 's ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share . |
| 9 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |