Example sentences of "[coord] so a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you look for strips of young geraniums at the garden centre , you should be able to get F1 hybrids for around 60p or so a plant . |
| 2 | Only one of the brand-new lifts is working , or so a smudged note scrawled in chalk on a blackboard attempts to tell us : ‘ Due to a defect , certain lift operations suspended . ’ |
| 3 | Though his proposals could cost the taxpayer another £18m or so a year , they might help produce more effective constituency MPs . |
| 4 | Currently , organically grown wheat fetches farmers about £70 or so a ton more than conventionally grown grain , the premium more than compensating for substantially lower yields . |
| 5 | Every ten minutes or so a larger swell came at them out of the darkness . |
| 6 | In the last ten years or so a group of enthusiastic breeders has been attempting to locate and rescue some of the coloured cattle of Wales and in 1981 a breed society for the Ancient or Coloured Cattle of Wales was set up ; its Welsh title is Gwartheg Hynafol Cymru . |
| 7 | Over the last 20 years or so a large theoretical literature has been developed to provide tools for the solution of many problems associated with emergency planning ( Kolesar 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads . |
| 9 | The fame of his treatment spread , bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income . |
| 10 | Finally the survey revealed that worldwide information technology spend in the wholesale finance market will hit some $20,000m during 1993 , increasing at 9% or so a year over the next five years . |
| 11 | The company has only two attractive businesses now , the AS/400 at $14,000m or so a year , and the RS/6000 , at barely $2,000m — which means that in the rankings above , the truly viable computer businesses of IBM lie between Hewlett-Packard and DEC . |
| 12 | It means the new Control Data Systems Inc company will start life as a $600m or so a year business , leaving its bigger sister , Ceridian Corp running at about $700m a year . |
| 13 | During the past decade or so a number of investigators have used electrophysiological techniques to study hemispheric specialisation of function , usually in right handers . |
| 14 | During the last decade or so a wide range of what were once considered to be mundane or esoteric problems concerning the English countryside have been thrust to the forefront of public attention by the apparently sudden and widespread increase in anxiety about ‘ the environment ’ . |
| 15 | The ground rose slightly , then dipped ; after a hundred yards or so a shallow outcrop of rocks hid the house . |
| 16 | Johnson grasped hold of some solitude and became for an hour or so a noble savage and a member of the armies of medieval romance , communing with nature on the bank of a stream : ‘ The day was calm , the air soft , and all was rudeness , silence and solitude . |
| 17 | Royal Commissions had been appointed , and had recently reported , on the state of rivers ; they had investigated the ‘ comfortable doctrine ’ that in twelve miles or so a river however foul would purify itself , and found it untrue . |
| 18 | At £26 or so a square yard , Cottage Collection may not leave you with a lot to spend on lavish celebrations . |
| 19 | AT £26 OR SO A SQUARE YARD , COTTAGE COLLECTION MAY NOT LEAVE YOU WITH A LOT TO SPEND ON LAVISH CELEBRATIONS . |
| 20 | Over the last 12 months or so a new microwave product has been made available to the caterer — the combination microwave . |
| 21 | This is in spite of the emerging medical consensus that people who drink up to four drinks or so a day live longer and are less likely to suffer from heart disease than either abstainers or heavy drinkers . |
| 22 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
| 23 | Remember that blocks do not score , however well they are executed , and so a follow-up punch , kick or strike is essential . |
| 24 | Ideally , farmers would like to grow the larvae from eggs , and so a new industry — prawn hatcheries — has grown up to meet the demand . |
| 25 | And so a thrilling , virtuoso display of the art was the first spectacle the Prince and Princess of Wales saw when they stepped ashore here last night to be greeted by a modest but affectionate crowd of 4,000 . |
| 26 | In those days Womblemania stalked these islands , and so a large audience had gathered to witness Uncle Bulgaria and Co as they strutted their stuff . |
| 27 | And so a sanitized canon of soul and funk was drawn up : James Brown 's ‘ Say it Loud , I 'm Black and I 'm Proud ’ , Curtis Mayfield 's ‘ Move On Up ’ and ‘ We 've got to Have Peace ’ , Timmy Thomas 's ‘ Why Ca n't We Live Together ’ , Gil Scott Heron 's ‘ The Bottle ’ , Grandmaster Flash 's ‘ The Message ’ , Brother D and the Collective Effort 's ‘ How We Gon na Make the Black Nation Rise ’ , James Brown and Afrika Bambatta 's ‘ Unity ’ . |
| 28 | For example , it is unfortunately true that many people experience a burglary at their home ; this usually means things being stolen and so a significant loss occurs . |
| 29 | It turned out there were large surpluses in the BTR pension fund and so a good chance that the transfer value , as well as the potential pension , would be increased in the not too distant future . |
| 30 | Consolidation and centralisation have been effected to a much greater degree than here , and so a reaction to their effects may be expected to be stronger . |