Example sentences of "or so [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gods had drawn them together , and together for 10 years or so they would make music , exploring the world and themselves , unharried by outside pressures , responding only to the more meaningful pressures of life and love . |
| 2 | Until about eighteen months or so they will typically be unable to search for objects which have been displaced invisibly ( by transposing containers , for example ) . |
| 3 | Mind you when she went home she noticed her accent was getting worse and worse and she was picking up a sort of English reticence or so they enjoyed telling her . |
| 4 | Or so they say . |
| 5 | Woodfall , the company set up by Tony Richardson and John Osborne to exploit the profits from Look Back in Anger , with the aim of proving ‘ that good films , ones that showed British life as it really is , could be made cheaply ’ , nevertheless had no particular strategy for trying to bring down the budgets of films from the £100,000 or so they were costing to the £30,000 level that , for example , French filmmakers worked to . |
| 6 | Some were wrapped in special plastic sheets that formed an airtight cover around their bodies ( or certain parts of the body , most often the belly and behind ) , so that the skin perspired all the more readily and the women , or so they believed , would lose weight more quickly . |
| 7 | Over the past year or so they have appointed a new captain , coach , and secretary . |
| 8 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |
| 9 | The Arab world , and especially Egypt , embarked upon a revolutionary process , shedding ( or so they thought ) the shackles of imperialism and colonialism , of which Israel remained the most striking example . |
| 10 | In the past year or so they have launched major design and marketing efforts for factory automation systems . |
| 11 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 12 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 13 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |
| 14 | Petrolia Cats and dogs sense the earthquake 's imminence , or so they say . |
| 15 | For the next three weeks or so they wean their babies on the frozen sea of the Gulf of St Lawrence . |
| 16 | Timing is everything , or so they say . |
| 17 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
| 18 | Taking all forms of consumer borrowing and saving in 1979 into account , private individuals saved some £21,000 million , against the £20,000 million or so they borrowed . |
| 19 | Most businesses give monthly or 30-day terms — or so they think . |
| 20 | X marks the spot , or so they say . |
| 21 | Or so they claim . |
| 22 | In five minutes or so they were back . |
| 23 | On a clear day you can see as far as Dublin from the Great Car of Donard ( or so they say ) , but mist or heat haze have always foreshortened the view for me . |
| 24 | These brought in the cash , but had to be meticulously types with no rubbing out , or so they said . |
| 25 | Or so they seem in isolation . |
| 26 | No elil for miles , or so they tell me . |
| 27 | He opened his eyes and cleared his mind of Camels and Albatrosses and Pups and Tripehounds , cleared his mind of everything but the thought of her beautiful body and the beautiful things she was doing with it , and for the next minute or so they were almost flying . |
| 28 | These were creatures above fashion or so they liked to think — their look characterized by exquisite dullness and a certain cock-eyed practicality , epitomized by the much favoured Barbour jacket . |
| 29 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |
| 30 | It 's great for squashing files down so they 'll fit on a floppy or so they take up less hard disk space . |