Example sentences of "hour [coord] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A light meal without alcohol about an hour or so before your treatment is just about right . |
| 2 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 3 | Vice-Chancellors with a high-powered escort including the Director-Gen. of the British Council are arriving here an hour or so before we leave ( i.e. c. 40 mins from now ) so I am frantically typing a brief letter of a confidential kind that I can hand over to them . |
| 4 | Though the voice was larded with the tones owed to ‘ land in the family ’ , the man himself was decent , polite , unpretentious , and unpatronising throughout the half hour or so that I spent photographing him . |
| 5 | The TVS producer had had the idea of asking Hyacinth to play the role of ‘ guest interviewer ’ and had spent an hour or so that morning , showing her something of how it was done . |
| 6 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 7 | Carl 's Choice galloped to his seventh win of the season in the Open at Saturday 's East Essex meeting an hour or so after Rubie 's Choice had chalked up his fifth in the Confined . |
| 8 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 9 | He appeared at her bedside late that night , an hour or so after she had retired . |
| 10 | Radio and TV can react even more quickly than daily newspapers , with an item going on air only an hour or so after it has been received . |
| 11 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 12 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 13 | Once home , float their bag(s) in the tank , and after twenty minutes or so add a little tank water , repeating the process over the next hour or so until the fish have adjusted ( if necessary ) to your tank water . |
| 14 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 15 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 16 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 17 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 18 | Another quarter of an hour or so and he was solving Michael 's recruitment problems across the board , recommending a dozen good , reliable workers . |
| 19 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 20 | If it 's something you want the police there to deal with quite quickly and if , if they waited an hour or so and the police did n't come then could n't deal with it . |
| 21 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 22 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’ |
| 24 | But yo you come for an hour or so and then , tha that 'll be enough |
| 25 | But , you know she just puts it on , she does n't want to do any thing for a hour or so and just sit and recover . |
| 26 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 27 | ‘ We can leave in an hour or so when everyone is asleep . |