Example sentences of "hour [coord] so [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work .
2 Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them .
3 Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills .
4 Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him .
5 He appeared at her bedside late that night , an hour or so after she had retired .
6 Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received .
7 Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle .
8 Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ?
9 Another quarter of an hour or so and he was solving Michael 's recruitment problems across the board , recommending a dozen good , reliable workers .
10 Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime .
11 We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know .
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