Example sentences of "or so [that] the " in BNC.
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1 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
2 | Check every 20 minutes or so that the water has not boiled away and , if so , replenish with boiling water . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
9 | It was only in the last week or so that the two of them had fallen out . |
10 | In this notation positive feedback corresponds to or so that the gain is increased . |