Example sentences of "ten [noun] or so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's why it may be a good ten minutes or so before a man can lift a finger ( if you 'll forgive the phrase ) . |
| 2 | Very often I sit in my chair for ten minutes or so as soon as I arrive at the water , just relaxing and taking in everything around me , appreciating my surroundings and thinking about what I am going to do . |
| 3 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 4 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 5 | They do this by guarding the female , staying close to her during the ten days or so when she is fertile . |
| 6 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 7 | It was ten seconds or so before I realized I was supposed to be looking at the inside of the wooden door . |
| 8 | Nails took his usual Ford Escort that night from the parking lot outside the gasworks where the night shift was working , the one he had a key for , and he and Gary went for a drive round the back streets where they would n't meet a patrol car , out into the country for ten miles or so and back again . |
| 9 | They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch . |