Example sentences of "month or so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DURING the two months or so before the first shots were fired in the Gulf , the dollar rose . |
| 2 | In what has always been a loose network , the international conference , held every 18 months or so since the mid' 70s , has always been most prominent in publicising the cause of action research . |
| 3 | King cobras curl around their pile of eggs , encircling it with their coils , and crocodiles stay alongside their nest of decaying vegetation for the two months or so that it takes the eggs within to hatch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |
| 6 | This gentleman visited Miss Mack every 18 months or so and put up at the Bell for the week of his stay . |
| 7 | Terry became Personnel and Training Officer at Wembley after 18 months or so and two years later he moved to Birmingham as Assistant Company Secretary of Johnson Matthey 's UK jewellery companies . |
| 8 | Well I think I would wait Stefan until the oily film had gone off the top of the water for tender plants but then I am one of these people that would always tender plants with tap water anyway because you never know what 's in do you in rain water , anything can congregate in a pot , it can be infected with all sorts of things and I would just use this water on the garden in the first twelve months or so or use it on shrubs and things like that if it was required and then go on to er things like perennials but then you could use it on almost anything but with the proviso that you may have contamination in that water if it 's from Water Board . |
| 9 | A month or so before this was due to be delivered , however , a curt memorandum arrived from the Energy Department warning the group that it ‘ should resist getting drawn into the fray ’ . |
| 10 | There was no light apart from a guttering candle , because the war had ended only a month or so before and the electricity supply had not been restored . |
| 11 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |
| 12 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
| 13 | The hostel could be tolerated for a month or so and during the interlude I would concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere more permanent to live . |
| 14 | He was never at the hotel after a month or so and that 's why it failed . |
| 15 | The RFU sponsored yearbook , edited by Barrie Fairall of the Independent and published by Harrington Kilbride , is also due to hot the shelves at some stage over the next month or so and is very good value , as is the Whitbread Rugby World Yearbook , edited by Adrian Stephenson and Ian Robertson and produced by Leonard Associates — a rip-roaring book even if the staff of RW&P ( all contributors to this fine , fine publication ) say so . |
| 16 | This version should be available in a month or so and will possibly be followed by a Solaris version . |
| 17 | This version should be available in a month or so and will possibly be followed by a Solaris version . |
| 18 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 19 | I think it would be nice if we all got together so will we aim to do that sometime in the next month or so and I 'll tell Napier that that we 're doing that |