Example sentences of "[coord] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with fierce competition , many of the country 's 380 or so small and medium-sized banks will merge or be taken over . |
| 2 | At the time of purchase the fragments were erroneously assembled into a sea battle , but reassembly of the forty or so small pieces has revealed a land battle scene , the only one known painted on a papyrus , substantially preserved in two areas . |
| 3 | A simplified version of this role also distinguished the 500 or so small market towns with a population of between 600 and 1,500 inhabitants from the mere villages . |
| 4 | The Susweca Lounge consisted of thirty or so small round tables on an enormous covered veranda built on stilts over the water . |
| 5 | The village boasted a fleet of a dozen or so small fishing boats , which Ashley had seen setting sail at night and returning with their slippery silver haul in the mornings . |
| 6 | Example 18 is one of the fifteen or so melodic fragments which make up the piece : |
| 7 | For example , if the proton-neutron mass difference were not about twice the mass of the electron , one would not obtain the couple of hundred or so stable nucleides that make up the elements and are the basis of chemistry and biology . |
| 8 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 9 | Secondly , the new research and technology law itself singles out 10 or so second-priority sectors worthy of attention . |
| 10 | The thirty or so largest groups accounted for about seventy per cent of the total population in the 1948 census . |
| 11 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 12 | To her right the blind yellowstone wall of another tall building rose majestically — a perfect backdrop for the dozen or so pink-clothed tables , laid for morning coffee , their pristine china no whiter than the latticed chairs which surrounded them . |
| 13 | Suddenly she rose from the post , some 250 feet from me , and with a dozen or so leisurely beats of her magnificent wings she was angling in to land on my glove and devour her prize ! |
| 14 | Various methods are used , depending on market circumstances — the ‘ tap ’ method , where stock is issued gradually in order not to flood the market and depress the price ; the ‘ tender ’ method , where institutions are invited to tender for a given issue ; and the ‘ auction ’ method , where stock is sold to the highest bidders among the twenty or so gilt-edged market makers ( GEMMs ) . |
| 15 | The hunters are the half dozen or so experienced adult males in the group . |
| 16 | Special provision should be made for the 2,000 or so full-time adult education staff , including LEA organizers , along the lines suggested in the first Haycocks Report . |
| 17 | Others were signed with names of characters , either characters from films or works of fiction , or the kind of people that you meet in our kind of life in our kind of city , and they 're so large , or so strong , or so infamous , that you say of them , she 's a real character . |
| 18 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 19 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 20 | Temperatures will fall to around minus two or three celsius , that 's twenty seven fahrenheit , but a degree or so higher along the coast . |
| 21 | One of the major demands of the RENFE unions , achieved in 1984 , was the inclusion of the 1,500 or so higher management staff within the scope of annual collective agreements . |
| 22 | Normally , he let it through at 5.43 , except that on that particular Saturday he received it a minute or so late . |
| 23 | Dana made an exasperated sound and Claudia grinned ; it was always she who remembered their joint birthday on time and Dana , who gave elaborate presents , usually a day or so late . |
| 24 | Twenty or so low castes accounted for between one-fifth and one-quarter of the Sinhalese population ( Appendix C ) . |
| 25 | Touching : We all know when something is so hot that it burns our fingers or so sharp that it hurts to touch it — but how much do we think about the other things we touch ? |
| 26 | Warren Christopher and his officials at the State Department pre-negotiated a sequence of intricate concessions — the return of some deportees , subtle changes in the ground-rules — that let Israel get the Palestinians talking again despite the non-repatriation of the 400 or so alleged militants Israel expelled in December . |
| 27 | They include a dozen pre-Cubist works , half a dozen or so Cubist drawings and paintings , some Thirties landscapes , and end with three heads of cavaliers from the Sixties . |
| 28 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 29 | Although there is no physical limit in the number of tucking stitches , in practice most patterns do not have more than 20 or so adjacent needles tucking at the same time . |
| 30 | ‘ All right , keep it down , ’ he said , raising his voice , looking out at the twenty or so uniformed and plain clothes men seated in the room . |