Example sentences of "[coord] so [vb pp] " 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 | Some of the 150 or so cast and production crew he gathered together at a local hotel broke down and wept as he confirmed their worst fears . |
| 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 | I found some much-Tippexed poems typed on foolscap , plus about twenty or so printed A4 pages which looked like they were part of a play or film script . |
| 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 | Down on Eagle Creek a hundred or so lit craft bob decoratively like candles in a Japanese water bowl . |
| 8 | Stained preparations may fade rapidly when first examined but usually stabilize after a day or so stored in the dark at 4-C . |
| 9 | As a home service company , or so called ‘ industrial ’ life insurer , it has specialised in arranging policies and collecting premiums on a door-to-door basis , with its sales force collecting small amounts of money on comparatively small life insurance policies . |
| 10 | These issues have been termed ‘ politicization ’ , contrary to the founding state 's intentions that the UN agencies should restrict their activities to closely defined and well managed scientific , and technical or so called ‘ functional tasks ’ . |
| 11 | The NHS indemnity however will not extend to any work , such as voluntary medical advice or so called ‘ Good Samaritan ’ work at road accidents , performed outwith the contractual working day . |
| 12 | Having said that I mean I think there there has been obviously some concern about some security measures , other than terrorist or so called terrorist threats in relation to staff personal security in the building which is why we 've actually moved towards more one stop per section area so there are limits to where the public are actually free to move around the building . |
| 13 | The middle years of the fourteenth century saw the change from mail armour to plate , while the coming century or so witnessed many improvements in design , so that arrows , bolts , and pikes were met with glancing surfaces which , like the changes in architecture intended to counter the effect of the cannon ball , caused the deflection of the missile away from its target . |
| 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 | Diving below the dusky water 's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | There might be three candidates or so left , bulling into clients . |
| 20 | There was still an hour or so left of debate . |
| 21 | To give a brief example , in Nepal population pressure has in the last decade or so brought about many intensifications of cropping patterns such as the introduction of wheat as a winter crop . |
| 22 | However , it is also possible that the outer 200 km or so cooled and became rigid whilst they were deformed by internal turmoil which destroyed hydrostatic equilibrium . |
| 23 | They are part of the team , albeit a step or so removed from direct involvement . |
| 24 | An hour or so spent talking with other women about how weak , cruel , uncaring , lazy and insensitive their husbands were always made her tired . |
| 25 | In addition , these holiday centres are increasingly catering for second holidays — a few nights or a week or so spent off-season — taken in addition to the main holiday abroad . |
| 26 | They usually manage to survive a day or so buried in a snowdrift . |
| 27 | But experts warned computer users that Friday 13th viruses are only a tiny proportion of the 30 or so known types of virus which exist , and that they would be wise to keep taking precautions . |
| 28 | Sergio Benedetti , the Florentine chief restorer at the National Gallery in Dublin , has identified a ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ high on the walls of an Irish religious college as the missing original version ( of some ten or so known ) of ‘ Christ taken into Captivity ’ by Caravaggio . |
| 29 | Or so terrified of what she knew she could no longer hold back ? |
| 30 | first the base budget , an this and return to give increase the expenditure is the five million pounds or so needed for the increased number of pupils . |