Example sentences of "or so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 2 | ‘ I told Anna a week or so ago that you 'd promised to visit her . |
| 3 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 4 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 5 | It was only two years or so later that he died — TB or summat . |
| 6 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 7 | This is again to put it broadly — that they must not exercise their powers arbitrarily or so unreasonably that the exercise of the discretion is clearly unjustifiable . |
| 8 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 9 | A year or so before that I was at a conference in America where deconstruction bulked largely on the agenda . |