Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] so [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottom five notes or so of the violins can be enriched by adding a bassoon or two in unison . |
| 2 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 3 | The final ten minutes or so of the session will be spent discussing what has arisen , how the patient feels about it , and the way future treatment is likely to proceed . |
| 4 | I gave you ten minutes or so of the lesson to look at some words . |
| 5 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 6 | After twenty minutes or so with the list broker you start to see the world as he does . |
| 7 | When we had driven for ten minutes or so across the plain of frozen sea Harvey said , ‘ All out . ’ |
| 8 | If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained . |
| 9 | In the early years about 50% of aircrew going through the course were National Servicemen who would only serve some three months or so on a squadron before their commitment was ended . |
| 10 | There was for a period of some two months or so in the summer of 1922 a diversion which my mother and aunt enjoyed after the walk . |
| 11 | Twenty paces or so beyond the shed the road twisted out of sight , and it was from that direction the smell of burning was being carried by the breeze . |
| 12 | Burma had been starved of books and so with the assistance of W. Lockett , who had worked with J.S. Furnivall in the pre-war bookshop , I secured the co-operation of the SPCK in a plan for a general bookshop . |
| 13 | In the mud banks which rise ten feet or so above the water 's edge , you can see the strata of silt deposits brought down each year by the river in the days before the High Dam . |
| 14 | That night I had a floating flying dream and , hovering in an upright position two feet or so above the ground , I remembered the caller 's problem and immediately found a solution . |
| 15 | ‘ It can only be about thirty feet or so to the ground . |
| 16 | ‘ The water level fell by two feet or so during the night , ’ said fisheries officer Keith Fisher . |
| 17 | Hoyle suggested that this field 's lines of magnetic force manage to twist themselves up every 11 years because of the Sun 's rapid rotation ( once every 34 days or so at the Sun 's equator ) . |
| 18 | The French company currently needs four weeks or so from the IBM announcement of new RS/6000s to integrate its set of Distributed Computing Model distributed computing framework — a major differentiator from the IBM versions , claims Bull . |
| 19 | ‘ After Winston had retired , he used to give lunch parties every two weeks or so in the basement of his house in Hyde Park Gate . |
| 20 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
| 21 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 22 | As a family , therefore , we have perfectly happily left what little savings we could scrape together over the last 20 years or so with the Woolwich Building Society , whose efficiency and ethics we have never had any reason to doubt . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 24 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 25 | For the first years or so of the war , oil and gas operations , setting aside the damaged Gulf terminals and the dislocation of the northern pipeline , continued very much as during the previous decade . |
| 26 | It is as well that there is an interval of twenty-five years or so between the baking of these pies — I imagine it will take the Denby Dalers this amount of time to recover . |
| 27 | I mean to give an earlier example , when at the beginning of this century , Mendel 's laws of genetics were rediscovered and an enormous growth of genetics took place and indeed is still taking place , initially Mendelism was seen by it 's practitioners and by biologists as a whole as a challenge to Darwinism , as an alternative to Darwin , and great fights took place for twenty years or so between the Darwinians and the Mendelians . |
| 28 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 29 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 30 | But the truly irresistible and the immovable are abstractions ; great prizes warrant intense efforts and so in the case of fusion the quest continues . |