Example sentences of "or so the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
2 | For the last twenty years or so the State has pursued a ‘ large is beautiful ’ policy but this has now been replaced by an ideology in favour of the small . |
3 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
4 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
5 | Dizzy Liston had won the cruiser on a bet , or so the story went . |
6 | I was going to finish there without saying any more because i cant be arsed writing , but basically there is a rich business man who has remained in the background because he dislikes Howard.Once Howard leaves , the money should come rolling in , or so the story goes . |
7 | No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe . |
8 | Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song , |
9 | They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total . |
10 | ‘ If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us . |
11 | Thus , true poetry is an entity to which the property POETRY truly applies , while Charlie 's old school is an entity such that the relation between it and the description CHARLIE 'S SCHOOL belongs to the time labelled by the word " old " , and a certain winner ( when not used with the indefinite sense ) is an entity of whom or which the description WINNER certainly holds ( or so the gambler hopes ) . |
12 | By the age of 25 or so the oiliness should be settling down but you may find yourself with a new problem : laughter and frown lines must finally be acknowledged as the first signs of an ageing skin . |
13 | During the last century or so the Lane 's territory has been stolen by Station Road and Hopetown Lane , although in manner of compensation it has been up-graded to a road . |
14 | In the past week or so the Sheikh has won the Coronation Cup with Opera House and the Oaks with Intrepidity . |
15 | Sure enough , after a week or so the boy 's right ankle was responding to more treatment , and the left-leg calf muscles were quivering . |
16 | How lovable we are — or so the myth goes — is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are . |
17 | The highlights , or perhaps the lowlights , have included singer James Hetfield getting himself barbecued by an over-enthusiastic pyro , while the temporary pairing with Guns N' Roses caused further turbulence — or so the press would have us believe . |
18 | IEEE 754 floating point for data sharing with other RISC systems is available and , you will all be relieved to hear that UMAX V is fully Posix certified , or so the company says . |
19 | IEEE 754 floating point for data sharing with other RISC systems is available , and , you will all be relieved to hear that UMAX V is fully Posix certified , or so the company says . |
20 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |
21 | After a minute or so the plastic card split where it bent , and Forester had to pull it out carefully . |
22 | ‘ Like Fitzosbert , he liked young boys , the softer and more pliant the better , or so the whisper says . |
23 | Suicides , or so the coroner declared . ’ |
24 | She was the girl with everything — fame , riches and most of all the undiluted love of her new husband — or so the world believed . |
25 | Or so the world calls it . |
26 | However , after 15 minutes or so the oil temperature had doubled again . |
27 | The average surface temperature on Venus is also much higher than on the Earth , 730 K instead of 288 K. The troposphere extends up to an altitude of about 60 km , and in its lower 50 km or so the lapse-rate is adiabatic . |
28 | In the last decade or so the area has become fairly well known as the centre of production of red wine which has risen in the hierarchy of wines of Languedoc : it should achieve further fame for its ponts naturels . |
29 | Or so the packet said . |
30 | It is a waste of skills , demeaning to the status of the individual and a deterrent to the recruitment of high quality entrants or so the argument goes . |