Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Two-year-olds are learning so much all the time — and are eager to learn more .
2 I remember at the time that all the crews felt a great deal happier being so much nearer the rest of the Lancs and Halifaxes , and no longer were in great danger of our oppoes dropping bombs and incendiaries on us .
3 So far all the work on policy optimisation procedures has been restricted to the time domain .
4 Nothing more complicated or obtuse ; just that , Ajayi thought it was a joke , but so far all the castle 's inhabitants , all the attendants and waiters , one or two other subsidiary characters they had discovered , the seneschal himself , and even the ever-facetious rooks and crows which infested the decaying upper storeys had treated the question with extreme seriousness .
5 Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster .
6 This , dear reader , is just the tiniest tip of an absolutely enormo iceberg : there 's heaps more stuff about the macabre , the theatrical and the perverted ; the awkward , the romantic and Suede 's ‘ extraordinary intensity ’ ; not to mention fairground mirrors and all the other fevered topics of conversation and how Suede are so quintessentially English the term could have been invented for them .
7 A three-bedroomed semi costs around £80,000 , so about half the population rent instead .
8 And then the third and then the third and a fourth and a fifth and so on all the way through .
9 Different animals may spend 99 per cent of their time in water , 98 per cent , 97 per cent , and so on all the way to 0 per cent .
10 ‘ It 's sure to happen sooner or later , so why all the fuss ? ’
11 ‘ It 's sure to happen sooner or later , so why all the fuss ? ’
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