Example sentences of "or so that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 2 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 3 | For the thirty seconds or so that the video lasted , John was alive , but I could n't hold on to it for any longer than that . |
| 4 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
| 5 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 6 | Holyfield came under such prolonged assault in the first minute or so that the crowd were reduced to a state of suspended animation , tensed for the moment when he would drop . |
| 7 | In this notation positive feedback corresponds to or so that the gain is increased . |
| 8 | 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 . |