Example sentences of "[coord] so [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or so says the North Korean delegation leader , Li Han Bok . |
| 2 | Or so says The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook ( Grafton Books , £4.99 ) . |
| 3 | We have a Prime Minister with un-Thatcherlike understatement , and wily pragmatism and body language of the friendly bank manager next door , or so says an article in today 's Guardian . |
| 4 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 5 | What had begun as a jeu d'esprit of a mere 30,000 words or so made Lewis a household name . |
| 6 | Part of the PhotoFinish 2.0 package is a photo-library amounting to some 200 or so colour images , one or two of which may be familiar . |
| 7 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 8 | The temperature should be in the 77–80°s ; F range for general maintenance , raised by a degree or so to promote spawning when the fish are ripe — assuming any trigger is needed . |
| 9 | The Brichardi have just bred for the first time and have a healthy brood of 20 or so fry . |
| 10 | This is a common reaction to the effect of the remedy and you should wait and expect to see an improvement over the next few minutes or an hour or so depending on how severe the illness is . |
| 11 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 12 | Even though Windows NT has not yet been released , 37% of the 1,000 or so survey participants said NT will offer benefits not yet available under Unix . |
| 13 | Of the half dozen or so packages available the two sent for test were InteCalc and InteWord ; a spreadsheet and word processor respectively . |
| 14 | The total number of Egyptian fighting men in Saudi Arabia is put at about 27,000 , with another 5,000 or so based in the United Arab Emirates . |
| 15 | She walked briskly out of the station , and set off in the direction of Bayswater , stopping every hundred yards or so to put down her dark blue Revelation suitcase ( a Christmas present from her parents ) and change hands . |
| 16 | Yet Roxborough Tower was kept well by its owners , who once every month or so gathered in the single room which occupied the top floor of the building in the name of the man who had owned this plot of land two hundred years before , and who had left |
| 17 | A snowflake or so glistened in her black hair . |
| 18 | Sprinkle the gelatine onto the boiling water in a small bowl and stir well — then leave for a minute or so to dissolve . |
| 19 | If your lounge is equipped with batteries of spot-lamps and other sophisticated facilities , you could spend an hour or so trying out all kinds of variations before arriving at the best effect . |
| 20 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 21 | Others , mainly the girls , spent the next hour or so exercising the jaw muscles — until the great white chief shouted , ‘ OK ; time to get together ’ . |
| 22 | I found some much-Tippexed poems typed on foolscap , plus about twenty or so printed A4 pages which looked like they were part of a play or film script . |
| 23 | Then she turned to speak to all the eagles there , for most were listening in silence to her except those , and there were some , who had been so long in the Cages or so affected by them that they showed interest in nothing but food , their spirit killed by imprisonment . |
| 24 | Firstly let me say that I do n't climb much these days — about a hundred or so routes a year , mostly soloed and always in trainers . |
| 25 | Journalists then get their hands on the beasts , spend an hour or so flying the aeroplane and give their readers and potential customers a definitive report on the aeroplane . |
| 26 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 27 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 28 | Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) . |
| 29 | He stood for a minute or so gazing down expressionlessly at the pale , bloodless face of the Prophet . |
| 30 | The hundred or so graduate biologists within the Rentokil pest control service represent an investment for future promotion . |