Example sentences of "or so [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And despite his hectic intercontinental schedule — commuting from his home in Paris to his musical duties in Chicago and Berlin ( where he has recently been appointed head of the Berlin Staatsoper ) — he always tries to set aside an hour or so every afternoon to sit in a cafe , nursing a coffee ( while , of course , veiling himself in a cloud of cigar smoke ) . |
| 2 | Well once I 've got you know once I 've got the shape of the story in my mind I can it down in an hour or so every time you know it 's in long hand , then it takes me hours to type it but er you know the actual once I 've got the idea I I find it necessary to get it all down you know in long hand as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads . |
| 4 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 5 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 6 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 7 | The company has only two attractive businesses now , the AS/400 at $14,000m or so a year , and the RS/6000 , at barely $2,000m — which means that in the rankings above , the truly viable computer businesses of IBM lie between Hewlett-Packard and DEC . |
| 8 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 9 | This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers . |
| 10 | Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue . |
| 11 | If you look for strips of young geraniums at the garden centre , you should be able to get F1 hybrids for around 60p or so a plant . |
| 12 | Currently , organically grown wheat fetches farmers about £70 or so a ton more than conventionally grown grain , the premium more than compensating for substantially lower yields . |
| 13 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 14 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In 1050 or so the abbot announced that the body of St Mary Magdalene , no less , had been discovered in the crypt . |
| 18 | Certainly during the first five hundred feet or so the pilot should be aware of possible fields ahead . |
| 19 | Dizzy Liston had won the cruiser on a bet , or so the story went . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No surprises here , Galliano are neo-modernists , or so the style pundits would have us , and them , believe . |
| 22 | Every minute or so the telephone operator intoned in a bored sing-song , |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ If Anyone Can Canon Can ’ , or so the TV commercials tell us . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the past week or so the Sheikh has won the Coronation Cup with Opera House and the Oaks with Intrepidity . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | How lovable we are — or so the myth goes — is tightly interwoven with how beautiful we are . |