Example sentences of "or so [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Sprinkle the gelatine onto the boiling water in a small bowl and stir well — then leave for a minute or so to dissolve . |
| 5 | Even if the Z88 is asleep , it will wake every minute or so to carry out various housekeeping tasks ( checking the alarms , for example ) . |
| 6 | She had a neat , methodical mind and it pleased her to hunt around for an odd half-hour or so to fill with planting lettuces or doing the mending . |
| 7 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 8 | She had forced herself out of bed especially early , without waking Oz , just so that she could have a spare half-hour or so to take a walk up Back Clough Dale . |
| 9 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 10 | And er therefore er w we made the most of it , my chum and I , Sid , we were in nineteen thirty two I would think we would be o one of the first hundred people or so to go with a , a week 's f er tour to Paris by air . |
| 11 | There 's still an hour or so to go before we 're due to dock . |
| 12 | Yeah we had five hundred er a couple of days back and I would think there 's probably another five hundred or so to go . |
| 13 | I would think Frank Clarke would probably give him another minute or so to see if he can run it off . |
| 14 | The instep must travel two metres or so to reach the opponent 's head . |
| 15 | I can remember quite vividly the old tramcars running there er day and night , with the last service leaving the outskirts of Edinburgh around about er twelve er eleven thirty and you g have about ten minutes or so to reach the depots which there were many and varied at this particular time . |
| 16 | I doubt if I had the necessary day or so to spare . |
| 17 | Some , including Portland , Oregon , charge $1 or so to recycle a tree . |
| 18 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 19 | According to market researchers the Gartner Group , it costs a company an astonishing £19,500 or so to run a single personal computer over a five-year period . |
| 20 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 21 | In recent years it has become the practice in leases granted for more than five years or so to contain some machinery for enabling the rent to be reviewed , either continuously or at periodic intervals . |
| 22 | Half way up he rested for a minute or so to rest his straining arm and shoulder muscles , then continued his exhausting climb . |
| 23 | The pace was fast ; they stopped only at way stations which were situated every hundred verst or so to change st'lyan . |
| 24 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 25 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 26 | The two-piece rosewood back is reinforced inside with four spruce braces , all shaved to a sharp point , and the sides have little mahogany strips every six inches or so to prevent cracks from spreading too far should the guitar be dropped — heaven forfend . |
| 27 | Have you , technically , presumably erm , Gooch could appeal , you can be timed out if you 're not on the , on the field by that time , but then of course you 've got another erm eighty yards or so to walk to up to the far end . |
| 28 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 29 | Having once negotiated the hurdle of the initial course it was not so difficult to persuade those who held the money bags to allow me to fly the aircraft every six months or so to maintain some sort of standard in flying up-to-date jet transports . |
| 30 | Take a day or so to recite . ’ |