Example sentences of "not so [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
2 | But it was not so long ago that many leading Tories faulted it for being mismanaged , diffused , uncertain , failing to set the agenda ; in a word , bad . |
3 | They were great fiddlers of long ago it 's not so long ago that I mind there was five fiddlers in our kitchen in Dalvaine , just each coming with a just to have a night at the fiddle . |
4 | ‘ Did n't I tell you not so long ago that there was only one area of my life I could countenance sharing with you — and that purely out of necessity ? ’ |
5 | Well I , he lived at Stowmarket for years but then I heard not so long ago that they had moved to Ipswich but where I do n't know but they must be , whether he 's than I have now I do n't know either . |
6 | Well I heard not so long ago that they were going to either pull it down or |
7 | It 's not so long ago that Kilmarnock were talking about wanting to go up as champions and look at them now . |
8 | He looked tired , in the bruised way that people who are physically slight do look tired , but not so much so that any of the congregation would notice . |
9 | But not so much so that we 'd junk a permanent commitment to a man in order to keep on our job . |