Example sentences of "[conj] so [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | A snowflake or so glistened in her black hair . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Stained preparations may fade rapidly when first examined but usually stabilize after a day or so stored in the dark at 4-C . |
| 8 | They spend the next hour or so chatting before going in for lunch . |
| 9 | Your Royal Highness , Ladies and Gentlemen my name 's Rod I normally masquerade as the Chief Racing Coach for the Royal Yachting Association but I 'm not here in that capacity this afternoon but the coordinator rather a grand title for the Year of Youth Sailing and I 've been asked to give you a short ten minutes or so briefing on where we 're up to with th this project this year erm I know there are many familiar faces around so I apologize to those of you that may know some of this information already . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead , the sites are used by local residents , of who some 25 per cent or so come by foot and use the sites like an urban park , primarily to take a walk ( Harrison , 1981 ) . |
| 12 | What we 're gon na do now , it 's just coming up to twenty past three , so we 'll take a tea break and then after tea we 'll come back and we 'll spend about an hour or so looking at identifying trainees . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That has been much nicer than paying the 5% or so charged on bank loans even when interest rates in Japan were at a record low . |
| 15 | Am I alone in questioning the wisdom of giving a gift which the donor can not afford and which must be paid at the ludicrous interest of 25 per cent or so charged by the credit card companies ? |
| 16 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 17 | Nothing is worse for young people when they start work , particularly if they join large companies , than to spend a year or so sitting with Nelly before they are trusted to do anything . |
| 18 | The ecology wall charts were to be the most recent in a series of a dozen or so published by the Natural History Museum with sponsorship from BP and featured in their educational catalogue . |
| 19 | There was still an hour or so left of debate . |
| 20 | As the last wave periscoped up , with only a minute or so left in the heat , Pottz knew he had to take it : he needed a fourth wave to beat Carroll . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 24 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They are part of the team , albeit a step or so removed from direct involvement . |
| 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 | An hour or so working at 150 feet is hard work . |
| 29 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 30 | 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 . |