Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] so [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " After about and hour-and-a-half or so of questions etc " Macmillan spent the last hour summing up " the political and military situation ; the problems confronting the Field Marshal and HMG and the equivocal and uncertain attitude of the Americans " . |
| 2 | So I 'll simply suggest , on as yet limited evidence , that of the present nap-hand or so of offspinners with the apparent potential to elevate their status . |
| 3 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 4 | The solution also implies that and so from equation ( 9.14 ) , there is a phase shift β given by However , has to be in the range -1 to + 1 . |
| 5 | The organisation wants to increase its investments at the rate of a dozen or so per year . |
| 6 | From the dozen or so per week when the band is in the studio , there will be up to 100 per week as they go on the road . |
| 7 | It 'd be nice to have 5 or so in hand with Scum only 13 points ahead , we win em all and take the league from under their noses . |
| 8 | It is known that none of the three thousand or so of letters were received by the children until their return home . |
| 9 | Two-thirds are of South Asian origin : over 400,000 from Pakistan , perhaps 12,000 from Bangladesh , up to 100,000 from India and another 100,000 or so from East Africa of South Asian descent . |
| 10 | ‘ Fast moving ’ glaciers slid forwards in the valleys at 50 m or so per year . |
| 11 | From 12 May , Sabine Wachters will be exhibiting ten or so of Parmiggiani 's most typical sculptures . |
| 12 | It is clear that there was a steady expansion of the words used for trusts , from the basic four expressions used in the first century to the ten or so in use by the end of the third century . |
| 13 | The fact that the London fair is comparatively small ( twenty-nine dealers compared to the eighty or so in New York ) also works in its favour : at this size it is just about possible to look at every print on every stand . |
| 14 | Or rather it will be if the health-care proposals come with a price tag that requires the taxpayer to finance an extra $100 billion or so of government spending a year . |
| 15 | It is a mistake to be too ambitious to begin with , for when 50 or so near maturity they will require lots of food and it may take some gathering . |
| 16 | Incidentally , if you 're stuck without a copy of this song , it 's available on a CD released in 1988 , a compilation of some twenty or so of Gene 's recorded tracks in the ‘ Rock And Roll Masters ’ series from EMI Records , catalogue number CDP 7903282 . |
| 17 | The polymer molecules are all identical and so by analogy with equation ( 8.2 ) the total number of distinguishable ways of adding N 2 polymer molecules is |
| 18 | In a report on the future of the Falklands , Lord Shackleton said that it would take £100 million or so for redevelopment . |