Example sentences of "or so [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of its 100 or so Ph.D graduates hold senior posts in academia and industry , both in the UK and overseas . |
| 2 | Later in the war they built 1,135 Mosquitos , before going on to produce fifty or so Fox Moths — and then their own indigenous designs after the conflict ceased . |
| 3 | Arthur and his knights rode here , or so Master Hopkins told us . |
| 4 | Or so Great-Aunt Alicia had believed . |
| 5 | Or so John-William Dallam 's lawyers had made clear to him when he had signed the marriage-contract a week ago , telling him what his allowance was to be , what it was meant to cover , by how much he could overdraw , to whom he would be answerable if his affairs fell into disarray , making it all sound more like an application for employment than a romance . |
| 6 | There was lots of time before he was due to meet Amaranth Wilikins for lunch at the Black Chapati , ‘ where English eccentricity adopts oriental exoticism to produce something special ’ , or so Jonathan Meades in The Times had said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 130 beta NT copies are now with UK corporates , a further 2,500 will be delivered this month : at least 10% of the 45,000 or so NT developer kits shipped worldwide have landed in the UK . |
| 9 | The demand-pull , or so Mr Waigel hoped , was the Christian Social Union , of which he is president . |
| 10 | Or so Miss Philimore said . ’ |