Example sentences of "[adj] or so [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the half dozen or so packages available the two sent for test were InteCalc and InteWord ; a spreadsheet and word processor respectively . |
| 2 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 3 | The two dozen or so airframes which were completed were simply test- flown and put into storage , awaiting buyers who never came . |
| 4 | It 's the main ‘ motorway ’ through the city , and there are a dozen or so stalls on the Rialto selling souvenirs — including the painted masks you 'll see on sale all over the city . |
| 5 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 6 | An assistant education officer is in charge of one of the half dozen or so branches into which the work of the education service is divided , such as secondary education or further education . |
| 7 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 8 | It is a weakness in Dunn 's useful book Baptism in the Holy Spirit that he sweeps aside these dozen or so references to the Spirit in the first three chapters of Luke and insists that the kingdom did not come until the baptism of Jesus . |
| 9 | The 15 or so parties that claim to speak for British Muslims are constantly at war with each other . |
| 10 | They still had another 40 or so runs to get . |
| 11 | Valladolid , Salamanca , Toledo , and Segovia were administrative and ecclesiastical capitals , glorified market towns with hat and soap factories , a hundred or so looms , flour mills , and brickyards . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |