Example sentences of "[coord] so [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 2 | The main reason people have been wearing Adidas Shell-toes and Puma States in the past year or so is because Nike , Adidas , Troop , Converse , British Knights , Travel Fox , Reebok , LA Gear , Hi-Tec , Jordache , etc , are producing some of the silliest , shittiest trainers known to man ( and woman ) . |
| 3 | AN OUTSIDER revisiting one of Britain 's great provincial cities — Manchester , Glasgow , Liverpool , Birmingham , or Leeds — after a gap of a quarter-century or so is set for a shock . |
| 4 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 5 | THE STORY of vertebrate life in Britain over the past 2 million years or so is fascinating . |
| 6 | The deviation of that inch or so is of no consequence . |
| 7 | BARLEY AND VEGETABLE SOUP The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time : 40 minutes or so is all that 's needed for a cheering bowl of soup from all-fresh ingredients . |
| 8 | Any material which runs for half a minute or so is worth considering , and you can stretch these times to any length by repeat-recording them nose-to-tail for as many times as needed to make up the required length . |
| 9 | Of this , 250 or so is taken up with lighting , leaving a little over 3,000 watts for water heating . |
| 10 | It has often provided dates where there was previously no method of dating available at all , and for many periods , accuracy to the nearest century or so is far better than produced by previous dating methods . |
| 11 | From that moment on , everything that happened to Pamella for the next month or so is a closely-guarded secret . |
| 12 | Another analogous body which has come into existence within the last year or so is the National Consultative Committee for Agriculture Education ( NCCAE ) . |
| 13 | But yet , the steady increase in the divorce rate over the last fifteen years or so is not the simple consequence of attending women 's studies classes . |
| 14 | Okay I think what we 've seen in American politics in the last twenty , twenty years or so is a , an in is er an increasing trivialization of politics the er the mass media , the so called er piranhas er focus on the daily lives of presidents . |
| 15 | But it 's not gon na take me longer at that time of the morning than it has done today at eleven o'clock or so is it ? |
| 16 | Few cases are quite as confusing as the zebra 's stripes , but there is always the chance that in a year or so 's time new information will have been gathered that changes our views about some aspect of animal life . |
| 17 | Elsewhere , other strategies will roll out in two to three months Pyramid says , and in a years or so 's time it claims it 'll have servers capable of competing with IBM mainframe class systems . |
| 18 | The good news is that , at last , a tape of the première of Britten 's Spring Symphony , known to be in Lord Harewood 's possession , has been re-located and , artists willing , should be issued by Decca in a year or so 's time . |
| 19 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 20 | We are shattered and so is the garden . |
| 21 | This is clearly capable of causing eye injury and so is always penalised . |
| 22 | Darts is out , and so is gymnastics , once a feature . |
| 23 | The administration is an adept player and so is Congress . |
| 24 | Another reason , of course , is that the 29-year-old Ohmachi is Japanese and so is Suntory , the company that sponsors the championship . |
| 25 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 26 | Snow conditions are perfect , and so is the view to Drangajökull . |
| 27 | We have already seen that it is common to feel tired about lunchtime ( the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ ) ; this is about 12 hours after retiring and so is another example of an ultradian rhythm with a period less than 24 hours . |
| 28 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 29 | But it 's not touching what that citizen really feels , and so is unlikely to change him . |
| 30 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |