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| 例句 | We flew for an hour or so out into farm country. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After another ten minutes or so, I detect that Marv might want to head back inside. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner’s head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z After an eternity or so, she let me go and held out plastic fangs, the same ones I’d given to her at the beginning of summer. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We have conquered ours, or so we believe. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z "Come on in and let's talk," Otto had said, or so the story went. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We formed a circle about the first arrivals, some fifty men or so, who were unloading bricks from the bullock carts. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The room buzzed with activity for the next hour or so. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As far as I could make out the last mile or so of the new road where it started to level out would be able to be shelled steadily by the Aus- trians. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I wonder for a second if anything I see was left behind by my family thirty or so years ago. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After a dozen or so trips to the white world, I began to feel somewhat comfortable amid the sea of white faces. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lord, where do I start? I guess by sayin’ how bad I feel for keepin’ out of touch the last ten years or so.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A few of the half a hundred or so people gathered there nudged each other and sniggered. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all about my age, maybe a year or so older. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We lie there in silence for fifteen minutes or so, and then, out of nowhere, Russ says, “Tell me what happened to your mother and I’ll tell you what happened to my parents.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran the last twenty yards or so, even though running in the halls is one of the deadly sins at Camillo Junior High, right up there with pride, envy, wrath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Most children rode the city bus to school or walked, as I did the dozen or so blocks from where I lived, in a two-room basement apartment. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Aunt Loma really didn’t want to go, or so she said as we waited at the depot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The next hour or so was a blur of sights and sounds for Thomas. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And I'm only really counting weekdays there, which means tack on another fifty or so for the times he stopped by on the weekends. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And over the next week or so, as the tapes move on, I’ll be doing the same to the rest of them. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Every thirty feet or so there is a neat, paved driveway going fifteen or twenty yards to nowhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He groped his way forward for twenty steps or so, and there the tunnel ended in a securely locked door—he couldn’t see it, but he felt it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z From the river to the ceiling of the main tunnel must be thirty feet or so, he thought. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And then, after a dozen or so times, it was sucked into the dark recess, and when it came out, it was torn and lifeless. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be dark in an hour or so. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She was frustrated that she hadn’t known any of this, that she’d been blind to the faith of a billion or so people. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z An older witch, maybe sixteen or so, was jogging toward them with a huge smile on her face. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z If I drift around for another hundred years or so, I might find another fish as big as the one that got away. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The cables kept coming every few minutes or so, reporting more torpedo attacks and bursts of automatic-weapon fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I drove the knife down into his body and as I did this I was suddenly covered, or so it seemed, with a countless number of leeches, sucking at my skin. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They are sane, or so I like to think. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She took a break every three hits or so, then every two, then after every ball. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It wasn’t terribly high—thirty feet or so—but it was steep and very unstable, the edge loose and soft from the rain. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z They cheered and booed me in equal amounts for a minute or so, enjoying my failure more than they had the song itself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For a week or so he just stood outside the basement door and looked in. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I will not hush or so handle my heart. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For a day or so they were safe. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeitoun had worked on a dozen or so homes on this street, and knew he would return when the waters fell away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z You were left to your own devices or so you thought until you were at your very wits’ end, at which time she would step in and rescue you. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Night will fall in about an hour or so, and I have a wounded stranger added to my duties. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Emily continued to flip pages, stopping every third page or so. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Nearly half of the 180 or so major insect enemies of plants in the United States are accidental imports from abroad, and most of them have come as hitchhikers on plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Today it isn’t as easy to get to the house who made the call, but after an hour or so, Dr. Martin’s red pickup truck pulls its nose to Axel’s fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For the first twenty minutes or so of motoring, I cannot say I was seized by any excitement or anticipation at all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z South Africa was also banned from Olympic competition, international track and field, swimming, World Cup soccer, cricket, rugby and a dozen or so other sports. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, Rue presses a gloppy green wad of chewed leaves and spit on my knee. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Captain Newport also takes all of the food stores except fourteen weeks’ worth of wheat and barley for the one hundred or so of us colonists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Every year, Alex, June, and Nora fill up the East Room on the first floor with three hundred or so of their friends, vague celebrity acquaintances, former hookups, potential political connections, and otherwise notable twenty-somethings. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He remarried a young girl, and the new woman turned him around, or so MamS thought. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I urged him up to a canter after another mile or so. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “If the two of you will be quiet for a minute or so I’ll tell you the whole of it. Fair?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I came out of the booth, after about twenty minutes or so, and got my bags and walked over to that tunnel where the cabs are and got a cab. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I might have to put up with him for a day or so, but sooner or later, I’d find a way to get rid of him. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Life couldn’t have been better, or so I thought . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "The little kids will be home in twenty minutes or so," she said, "and we'll eat dinner around four thirty. I like to have everything settled before Richie comes home." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It would only take a minute or so. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I thought I’d call Hulle tonight. I’d like to talk to him about us spending some time, oh, only a week or so, in the Blue Mountains. It’s just an idea ” “The Blue Mountains!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The first result, though, is a YouTube page called Stella Grant’s Not-So-Secret CF Diary, filled with at least a hundred videos dating back six years or so. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z But it was no use — the spider was either so large, or so magical, that the spells were doing no more than aggravating it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They’re going over my first test results since I started the trial a week or so ago, and as usual, nothing’s changed. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, he drifts off to sleep. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She looked a trifle dazed and who could blame her, but after a minute or so she was on her feet again and tottering back towards the playground. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The gentleman who was shown in was still fairly young - perhaps around forty or so - tall and thin; tall enough, in fact, that he was obliged to stoop to enter the doorway of the cottage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z A direct hit—just an inch or so over—would have gone right into his spine and paralyzed or killed him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn’t weigh much more than 100. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In the minute or so when it was coming closer, the light became fiercer and brighter, and he saw the witch’s face, quite calm, almost amused, and utterly fearless. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z As Z grabbed a fistful of wires and tugged them another foot or so out of the ceiling, Frankie stepped toward the window to see what was happening. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The next day, even as he pondered the question, he ran into Old Chao, who raised an eyebrow at his shoes — or so Ralph was convinced. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After half a minute or so he turned his head to me like he was gonna say something, but nothing came out of his mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z During my first twenty or so years in prison, I accumulated very few possessions, but in the last few years I had amassed enough property — mainly books and papers — to make up for previous decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A week or so later, I had learned enough about the layout of the camp to guess where my mother was. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z His EVA had lasted only twenty minutes or so, but he had enjoyed it so much he had hated to get back inside the spacecraft and close the hatch. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen or so Specials stood in a cordon around them, watching their captives with empty expressions. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The antiaircraft fire was so tough over Japan that many were shot down or so damaged they couldn’t make it back to Guam. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a hoarse, muffled sound broke the thick silence of the night, as if it was coming from the bottom of a coffin, or so Blanca thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Something fairly big—as big as a rabbit, anyway—moving clumsily but trying to keep concealed, or so it seemed to me.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The particular program she was in required her to stay off the phone and offline, but she was encouraged to write, and we’d exchanged a dozen or so letters. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The woman, who was an inch or so shorter than she was, looked up into Gilly’s face with a sort of peculiar expression, whether frightened or hungry, Gilly couldn’t have said. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z It was probably noon or so when I made it to the kitchen. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been a hundred or so in this wagon. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Choking out a cough, Mark sought more places for his hands and feet, dropped another yard or so. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “His name is Doc,” she says, her thumbs tucked into the waist of her pants, either to hold them up or so she can easily get to her piece. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z One evening a week or so later, I went into the kitchen to get a handful of Oreos to eat in front of Gidget. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Dad liked working his first hour or so in the dark because he could beat the wind that way. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It turned out to be a member of the campus security force, or so he said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z But after another hour or so of this I realize it’s futile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When Lyra had been living there for six weeks or so, Mrs. Coulter decided to hold a cocktail party. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z A few guys crashed with them, and we ended up with not much more than forty or so kids, so—I mean there could have been more—it wasn’t bad for a cocktail party. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Wash asked as they walked the last dozen or so steps to the bank of the river. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After walking for what seemed like a couple of hours, we reached a motel billboard that we had passed only a minute or so before the car broke down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We have another month or so to go. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I slept terribly that night, especially since Otto woke up every hour or so to eat. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The box contained curried leftovers, bruised mangoes and a dozen or so books, which my mother said she had bought at a flea market near where she worked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a week or so, the nurse says Erin has been moved to a different building for rehab. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two or so years, I think,” Mike answered. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Listen my boy, we’ve talked about this before. Just be patient. You need to give Lorren more time to cool off. It’s only been a term or so ” “It’s been half a year!” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At the end of the block there were soldiers on watch in front of City Hall; a dozen or so men standing around a campfire, with more dozing on the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The second option is to drop by my house when I’m not there and spend half an hour or so looking around. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The phone goes silent, and a minute or so later she comes back. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He opened an eye, found the mold an inch or so from his face and his fingers gripped into it, light filtering between the fronds of fern. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, the lightning stops. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Children are precious to 13, or so it has always seemed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “West. To the coast. Thirty miles or so.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Within another minute or so the round piece of land was exactly vertical, half in the ground and half out, still rotating. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Prince would manage an hour or so of spectating before he and the Count would leave, the Count still oddly silent. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Now they were gassing Jews to death in trucks and boiling their bodies to make soap, or so it was said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She thought for a minute or so, pushing back her kids like they were a tide about to flow out the door. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z At home, my mother and I picked up nearly identical stacks of clothing every six months or so. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z But we went on talking, and when we finished he said, “Well, let me give you a call in a week or so.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t say that. Good chance you’ll have a wonderful accessory in the next minute or so.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He knelt in the dirt a moment, tenderly feeling his mouth, while the hundred or so spectators cheered and honked some more and clapped and bammed their hands against their hoods and fenders. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that I could not possibly answer all the letters—there were over forty—and I had to select a dozen or so to write to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I have also, no doubt, been prompted to think along such lines by the small event that occurred an hour or so ago - which has, I admit, unsettled me somewhat. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In the wide arena in front of the main group of buildings, a hundred or so people, adults and children, were milling about: some in excitement, some in irritation, many just bewildered. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the end I personally killed a dozen or so chickens before moving on to try another station. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z For the physical I was herded into a large room along with thirty or so black men, mostly migrant workers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The ceremony took only a minute or so because Archie insisted on getting it over quickly before anyone knew what was going on. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A month or so after that, Cindy Sindy took the strip job at the club because I was drinking our rent. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Once a week or so, if I found a quiet moment, I’d pick up the phone and dial the number for our apartment on Euclid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Those tracks still carry a dozen or so freight trains a day, which rattle windows and stop traffic. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Not yet. Lord Asriel wouldn’t be dining here if it was going to break out in the next week or so.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Could you work somewhere else for a month or so?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Just add water, it said on the packages, and cook for half an hour or so until everything was normal-size and done. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z In the ten years or so since this group was first identified, economists have gone to great lengths to understand them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It does smart a little,” she admitted, “but it’ll fill in in a day or so. Things like this always do.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes Father walked with me, but sometimes he mounted Grey and rode on ahead a mile or so. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, she didn’t get up until the afternoon and was active for only an hour or so then. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My grandson’s about your age. What are you, fifteen or so?” he asked me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z An hour or so later Mama came home, and she looked at me and asked me if I wanted some ice cream that she had bought me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A mile or so out to sea, a huge tanker is steaming north. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d disappeared from my life a month or so back, but before that, surfer boy had been making a real effort to be there for me, after school, once, even twice a week. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A week or so after I came back from the National Tournament, my eyes began to hurt. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, he looked down at Harry again, a cruel smile twisting his snakelike face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The hooks were attached by a yard or so of leather cord to a bell-shaped iron weight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z After a half hour or so, this made Mark realize that they were combing the area between the camp and the direction they’d gone last night. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But the truth is—or so they taught me—that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task—to bring about what must be. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of us kin take a furrow or so while the other one rests; we’ll save each other a sight of weary achin’ by day’s end,” she told her mother. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The road led out along the side of a ridge, and after a mile or so I saw the house that must be Leper’s, riding the top of the slope. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z After twenty minutes or so of sitting between us in silence, Didu finally pulls herself together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We’ve seen the infiltration over the last two months or so,” he said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, I am pleased to recall that by the time dinner was served an hour or so later, nothing but efficiency and professional calm was exhibited on the part of my team. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z We crossed the frozen Ey a mile or so north of town. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “We have to get there as close to six as possible, then stand on line for four hours or so. And it can be dangerous. Riots. Shootings. It isn’t fun.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z They may be so deeply mired—or so happily ensconced—in their relationship that they have no perspective on how it works. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Nothing seemed to change much in the week or so after that trip. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And after another five minutes or so, the sandman's got me. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an hour or so of polite, go-nowhere small talk, accompanied by a hot, hearty South Carolina meal, which we shoveled in appreciatively, tired as we were of dining-hall food. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My mind had not only snapped during the first killing, it had also stopped making remorseful records, or so it seemed. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “The Palmerian Professor mentioned a name,” he said after a minute or so. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t desert, I just came home for a couple of days. Captain Champion had to go over to Waterbury for something so I decided to slip home for a day or so.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I crept away along the path, and for the next day or so kept dreading what Miss Emily would say when she saw me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen or so white tennis players were staying at the hotel, which was an ornately furnished place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We are in a world very different from Phnom Penh, yet we have traveled only ten miles or so. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And soon they saw them, too: twenty or so men, women, and children, all moving as Dirk Jansen had done, uncertain and shocked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Sometimes, probably about once a week or so, when food got low, my folks would send me over to the Coals' farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen or so people made it that far and now hang from whatever provides a handhold. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “A couple weeks ago. But there was only one then. On my left toe. And then a week or so later, there were a lot more. Or at least that’s when I noticed them.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, Karkaroff seemed to decide that he had hit some sort of animal; he was looking around at waist height, as though expecting to see a dog. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as “irreproachably Americanese.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The Berg stopped up ahead, its blue thrusters pointing downward now as it hovered fifty feet or so above the Town Square, a roughly square-shaped area they’d left bare when building the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They ran like this for fifteen minutes or so, at which point the boys began to clap in rhythm with their strides. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The heart of a stallion would make her son strong and swift and fearless, or so the Dothraki believed, but only if the mother could eat it all. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A week or so later, a hearse came for Miss Lilian. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The cells were perfect—or so it seemed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly Headless Nick chortled so much that his ruff slipped and his head flopped off, dangling on the inch or so of ghostly skin and muscle that still attached it to his neck. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z An hour or so later, Fred’s head was in my lap. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I don’t know if she’s so tired or so intent on dreaming. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But these dozen or so cover most of the territory. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They made a fire by the entrance and slept there for an hour or so, until they were woken by a noise. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z We smiled at the notion of Yutar poring over the hundred or so volumes of Treason Trial transcripts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It led through a vast talus field and then, a mile or so farther on, into woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Ogion went on a half mile or so, and said at last, “To hear, one must be silent.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z If a stranger discovers their existence, he is killed or so absorbed that he is never seen again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve never felt so proud or so Iranian for that matter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Every hour or so some medical person or other came in to take Jeffrey’s temperature or attach a new bag to his IV or do something that would ruin our rest. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah. I’m sure I’ll be there for the next forty years or so,” I joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The police arrest his dad every few months or so. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a wooden hall on a hill, a mile or so from them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Why not spend a decade or so exploiting nature’s gifts before building an expensive machine to generate the same energies? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “A green light? Pulsing every three seconds or so?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It was only after a year or so that I figured out the key to making black Mends in the suburbs: the children of domestics. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The main difference, of course, is that this tiny town would be circling the earth every two hours or so. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t been so happy or so sad for almost a decade. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she held out a little bunch of flowers, a dozen or so anemones bound with a cotton thread, and began to speak in a rapid, nervous voice. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But she just kept walking, a dozen or so steps ahead, then went in through a door—into “The Portway Studios.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z New tasks arise, such as bunching up the carts left behind by customers and steering them to their place in the front of the store every half hour or so. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I waited ten or so minutes, just to be safe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There must have been a thousand or so students in that huge room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I fooled for an hour or so brewing this dish, adding this and that, when I heard the mouse in his tunnel. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so overwhelmed with grief that when he himself went down with pneumonia a month or so afterwards, he did not much care whether he lived or died. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “If we meet no winds, we shall be over Svalbard in twelve hours or so.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Feral had outgrown it first, then Sarai, and the girls a year or so later. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After the first half hour or so I realized that he was not listening at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Ten days or so in the hospital and then home for the long recuperating period. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She prophesied for five minutes or so and then stopped, sweating as though she had been running a marathon, her face drained of all expression. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, who’s this?” he inquired, his voice rising an octave or so. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The stairs creaked with every shift of weight as they descended the dozen or so steps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After an hour or so of waiting, she opened her unbandaged eye. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For the last hour or so, he’s sat quietly, his brow knitted in concentration, staring at the Nut through the window glass. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Give it to me, or so help me, I will kill you in your sleep.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I worked on my homework while Samira pored over job applications for a dozen or so retail stores at the posh Valley Fair mall in our hometown of San Jose, California. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Nat twisted his head the inch or so that the boards allowed him and stared at her without the slightest recognition. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I keep my hands behind my back, since the ghosts of children have been known to bite off fingers, or so I’ve been told. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Because of the time lag in communications, the general prisoners probably did not learn of our participation for a day or so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I return to the studio an hour or so later, all’s quiet. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z A week or so later he was wakened by the same stealthy squeak. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The closest thing had been her wedding, and that had been only fifty or so friends and family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Rising a hundred feet from the forest floor, its soaring boughs spread out in a canopy of incomparable lushness, an acre of leaves per tree, a million or so in all. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My father was a year or so older than his brother Oscar, but they were exceptionally close, and soon after they left school, they went for a long walk together to plan their future. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never had to work so hard or so tiringly to clear an Appalachian impediment, and this was just the first of a series. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Was it just a month or so ago? Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For a year or so after the first landing, one of their ships hovered above Wrigley Field to mark the spot where they first greeted us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had a strange face that, little by little, grew unsettling to me: it was a face, or so it seemed for an instant, from a dream I had almost forgotten. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, a dozen or so of these young ladies in party frocks descended on my room with cake and punch and gifts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I only get every third word or so. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Still, he had to admit that the evidence for his claim might be murky, since the margin of priority could not have been more than a day or so. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some sat on the stone worktables to get a good view, while a dozen or so students gathered on the iron catwalks in the rafters among Kilvin’s hanging lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I never saw so much food or so many smiling people. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Down the bridge a hundred feet or so were the blackened remains of tires that had been burned there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z After a minute or so Mary said, “Can you see Dust?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z After an hour or so of highway driving, we’re on a road with many trees, passing horses and cows even. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived like uglies, a hundred or so together in a big dorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Then not far inside, or so he thought, he heard the two captains’ voices talking again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But what I’d rather do is take you up this road a mile or so and then turn you loose. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so of silence, Russ says, “If I get into the game tomorrow, would you mind if I used my extraterrestrial powers?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z So he could not call for help, and they would not worry for another week or so, when Derek did not call in. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The car drove off and I could see the white man looking about anxiously, fearing a trap; or so it seemed to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited a minute or so before getting up and brushing himself off. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Zoe didn’t like the idea of marrying someone either so religious or so diminutive. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My gift to Mamaji one birthday, I must have been thirteen or so, was two full lengths of credible butterfly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Buffalo Bill, resplendent in white buckskin and silver, was there to greet him, along with the rest of the Wild West company and ten thousand or so residents of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, I started to leave. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty meters to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls; from her pocket she pulls Hubert Bazin’s iron key. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The plastic sheet before me was peeled back a foot or so and weak light filled the space beyond. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The landlady, a woman of around forty or so, appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday's Ford and the high quality of my suit. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The guards, also in disarray, are too busy trying to sort out the power situation and help people up to notice the twenty or so of us who slip out the door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A guard coasted off of a rail to a floating stop a foot or so above the ground, his forebear humming as he balanced on it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “So, we’re gonna close in the next few weeks or so,” Momma says, “but since it’s the end of the school year, we’ll wait until you guys are out for summer to move.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Several times I carried on alone for a half hour or so, but without Francis’ reassuring chatter my inability to think in three dimensions became all too apparent. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He then propped the manuscript against his now wet knees, an inch or so above the waterline, and began to turn the pages. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I've got to call that doctor back in an hour or so and tell some more lies. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, I drove to Pennsylvania, thirty miles or so to the north. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “It will only be for a month or so,” Mama says in a shaky voice that gets stronger the more she talks. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Bucky’s father was killed by prison guards a year or so earlier. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z No, it was only a minute or so... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Nicholas, there’s only a hundred or so of these left. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Under the dolls were books, a dozen or so, that her mother must have grabbed at random; she wouldn't have known which were Eleanor's favorites. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z They saw farmhouses burning, and then they came across a dozen or so dead English soldiers in the road. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Finally she went back to bed, and to sleep, or so we thought. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He clearly got a line up within the last day or so. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “It’s nice to have a glass or so,” he said uneasily. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bobby was World Champion—or so he still claimed—and she aspired to be. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so of waking up and thinking and remembering, I tell him what happened. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the orthodontist to see, and I needed new legs made every nine months or so as I outgrew them. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Pimple’s idea was to grind more and faster, or so he said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Frank would stand ten feet or so in front of me as I delivered a bowl. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Ben came over after dinner and we played Resurrection, pausing every half hour or so to call Radar, who was on a date with Angela. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Harry crept past them to the portrait hole and waited for a minute or so, keeping an eye on his watch. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He used these to calculate life expectancies for each age group, and to estimate the population of London, which he concluded was 460,000—not, as had been claimed, 7 million or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A dozen or so people stood in a loose group at the side of the road. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten or twelve below zero every morning, and when it warmed up to zero or so in the afternoon, it snowed. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He goes on for another minute or so, until I have to cut him off. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In that mood of lazy righteousness he wallowed in Guitar’s bed, the same righteousness that had made him tail his mother like a secret agent when she left the house a week or so ago. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z —Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe twenty seconds or so before the seizure I slip into this thing called an aura. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Why should I not, then, offer to talk to him, if he wanted me to, say for an hour or so in the evenings—he on the porch, I on the road? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Every hour or so, we’d change places so as to give someone else a turn in the front seat with them. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In July 1969, a hundred or so black women crowded into a room, their attention commanded by the sounds and grainy images issuing forth from a small black-and-white television. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In the next ten minutes, I managed to anger or amuse most of them, or so it seemed, by trying to enforce my hopelessly outdated porter list. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z First he and Grover put a lock on the door; then Ralph began to spend an hour or so in there alone, every night. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z From what Milkman could tell, after fifteen minutes or so they were going up to high ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z A day or so later, she left me and Trey at our grandparents’ house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The restaurant was a dozen or so blocks farther than that, near Elmhurst, a new Korean barbecue house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z For the last week or so it's like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z And by that time the prisoners—a dozen or so men, shivering and blinking and huddling together—had come out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I buy us tickets to Vancouver, which has the advantage of being warm, or so I suppose. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the dozen or so photos in Google images, mostly head shots of Sarah with her violin and Rotary award ceremony groupings, she is slim, like Vivian, with an alert, guarded expression. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Volpe, a day or so later, asked me if I would want to play the role of the shy younger brother in his upcoming play, Neil Simon’s Come Blow Your Horn. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He pushed the car so hard it broke down about every hundred miles or so. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The black snake slunk forward, and Pinmei saw it slide through the air, only an inch or so above the floor. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Forty-five minutes or so after I start working, Chloe comes home. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had parked it on Fontainebleau, thinking that because the road was a foot or so higher than Vincennes, the truck would be spared. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "I may as well go with you. It's only an hour or so until curfew anyway." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z After another minute or so, I began to feel well enough to go back inside. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “We had to rest every mile or so. I thought she was better last night, but she began to vomit after the party.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like a fungus itself. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He had hung a dozen or so kerosene lamps from the ceiling at various heights around the old slave quarters, and you had to watch your head. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I have no idea why it’s called that, but it’s only a block or so away from my first house. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He indicated a neon sign that stood out against the night sky—YMCA, only a block or so away. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Shasta, who had lived all his life in an almost tree-less grassland, had never seen so many or so many kinds. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z I spent another pound or so on food. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So behind the motorcar came a dozen or so rickshaws, bouncing up and down like crickets following a large shiny beetle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They were fifty feet or so in the air, high above a main road busy with traffic. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Each morning he would drop the bike at a finishing point ten miles or so down the trail, drive the car back to the start, hike between the two and cycle back to his car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I have been for the last couple months or so—last guys got transferred, I moved up.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z One Gobstopper would provide about an hour’s worth of non-stop sucking and if you took it out of your mouth and inspected it every five minutes or so, you would find it had changed colour. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z "I heard it was a week or so after you guys met." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He was quiet for a minute or so, and then he said, “I think Lyra’s braver than me. I think she’s the best friend I ever had.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Penelope’s eyes shined with a feverish light, and Ophie turned away in discomfort, focusing on the bit of window that she had been cleaning over and over for the past minute or so. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was just another one of many, or so I’d thought. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I could go further, I still have 15 percent battery power or so, but I want to get as much daylight on my solar cells as I can. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After half a kilometer or so, Helena slid from my nearly numb arms to the ground in front of the Zielinskis’ gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He tossed his rock just a foot or so farther out than Thomas had. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z And there, only a mile or so away, was the volcano. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them were freshmen and had been in Leon’s class only a month or so but the teacher’s pattern had already emerged. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She glanced around for a minute or so in silence. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were large, dark and long-lashed and intense, and every minute or so his sharp, dark-pointed tongue peeped out at the corner of his lips and flicked across them moistly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After a hundred feet or so, they turned a corner and found Hazel. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I knew that if one continued south a week or so, one would end up in the vicinity of London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Still he manages to find illegal transmissions, one every two weeks or so. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Moonrise was early, half past six or so, and because of Double Summer Time we had to wait for it to get dark. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He sits beside me on the riser, a foot or so away. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z To the last battle at Fornost with the Witch-lord of Angmar they sent some bowmen to the aid of the king, or so they maintained, though no tales of Men record it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A week or so ago, Tariq was talking about the Kings again. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was everything I wanted—or so I was trying to convince myself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Perhaps it is even more remarkable in Verdi’s case, since his was the field of musical theatre, so transformed, or so it was claimed, by the Bayreuth ‘revolution’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, she yells, “Just everyone stop touching me—okay?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone assumed he’d get in trouble someday for the twenty-seven or so rattlesnakes and copperheads his congregants passed around each Sunday. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But a dozen or so family members would dutifully show up at each hearing, some traveling from as far away as California. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He has blue eyes the color of fresh toilet water and a dozen or so freckles flung across his face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z After she showed me what being a good wife had taught her—her words, not mine—I fell asleep under the watchful eyes of a dozen or so porcelain dolls. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Robin had been listlessly working on her shrimp, which she nibbled and then replaced on her napkin for a minute or so before taking another nibble. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Later, when I came back together Julia told me that I had blanked out for about eighty-four-thousand miles—seventy minutes or so. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “In a month or so I might be behind bars,” he told himself, “probably for the rest of my life.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He planned to be away from the seat of the federal government for fifteen days or so and did not take any official papers with him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a cloud of horses, Pollard spotted daylight five feet or so off the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just for an hour or so. Don't you want to? If you don't want to--" "I didn't say I didn't want to," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z One Saturday morning, a week or so after she resigned, Abigail babysat her granddaughter while Anne and Joe met with yet another counselor—perhaps hoping this time they would hear something different about their relationship. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Hours later—or so it seemed—they were allowed to stand up again. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rondell looked back and forth between us for a minute or so, and then he went up to the fence too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They have come here to say good-bye to Ruth May or so they claim. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But as my luck in life seemed only to snowball from there, I thought more about the twenty or so kids who’d been marooned in that classroom, stuck with an uncaring and unmotivated teacher. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "No. But a man gets bored wearing the same colors day in and day out, or so I've found." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the other side of the gate a field sloped down very steeply so that it fell out of vision only twenty yards or so in front of me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The Shire had seldom seen so fair a summer, or so rich an autumn: the trees were laden with apples, honey was dripping in the combs, and the corn was tall and full. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Even from that distance, and even in that urgent second or so, Will felt himself searched and scoured from one end of his being to the other by some vast, brutal, and merciless intellect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I looked down at the dozen or so keys hanging near my hip. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of the boys look to be about my age, seventeen or so. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In truth, I slept only an hour or so past matins; then several of Mr. Pope's orphans invaded our room, begging for stories and horseback rides. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z With incomes of more than $1 million or so, they would get the biggest share of the breaks, in total amounts and in the drop in their share of federal taxes paid. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As for her face of elder years, it was pale and haughty, and did not—or so it seemed—take in the world about her. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z After a few weeks and many blisters, they softened a little, and she was able to forget them for an hour or so at a time. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In the last month or so, I have read The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, the hoodlums left, but the violence revived old fears; once again I longed to be invisible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I had to wait around for at least a week or so until the spirit rally to know if I was the winner or not. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Dawn was beginning to make its mark, the sky seeming to have lightened considerably even in the last minute or so. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If McCandless had walked a mile or so upstream, he would have discovered that the river broadened into a maze of braided channels. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It gazed for thirty seconds or so before gently sinking under. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She had never seen Lexie look so tired, or so serious. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Sixty or so people had successfully hiked the trail from north to south. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She was wrong about Oakland: human beings have lived there for 20,000 years or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That would move us three miles or so—less if we were driving against wind and waves. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Schlesinger was a man of thirty or so, lean, with fair hair cut very short and a vivid alertness in his expression. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Up ahead, a dozen or so men have gathered. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We spent an Hour or so beating more Livestock out of the Brambles, where Pigs & Sheep were fled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z An older couple lived with us for a year or so. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I also showed the people on earth how our water gun worked, holding it out in front of me a foot or so and squirting the water into my mouth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Every ten minutes or so her moaning would stop abruptly and she would vomit a foul black bile. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z And a week or so later, I wasn’t actually eavesdropping or anything, I was just passing by, really, when I heard my parents talking in their room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He seemed unable to prevent himself from glancing upward every minute or so. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But even the rich have their problems, or so Molly’s heard. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He was a gentleman, kind to little children...or so everyone thought until that sunny afternoon when he inveigled a little girl into his dismal back room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Every week or so, I had gotten into the tradition of bringing her things I found while emptying the office’s rubbish bins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The spots there haven’t joined together yet, but there are a dozen or so sprinkled around. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z But in the dozen or so attempts I saw or heard about, not one man made it over the first fence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z We stayed like that for ten or so seconds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Call out my relative velocity to Mark every two seconds or so." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty or so people were pacing around and around, carrying big signs painted on old planks and on big banners made of sheets. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For ten minutes or so Ron tapped and muttered, Hermione turned the pages of her book, and Harry continued to practice with the blackthorn wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Every fifty feet or so he would turn it sideways, stop, and listen to the earphone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, Dr. Tamba arrived with another boy and asked me to follow him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Every day or so, I stopped at the portrait with a fresh flower and a little talk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, they drove off into the sunset with their “forever families”—or so they thought. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We’d text, or tag each other in summer photos, especially in September, but we’d inevitably fade out after a month or so. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z After a minute or so she figured out that what I wasn’t saying was not a happy ending. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Five or so weeks ago, he had talked of the unconscious and of dreams almost as a child talks about his first tricycle. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She filled it with water, just an inch or so. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A hundred yards or so from the house I became aware of another set of footsteps behind me, even swifter than my brisk pace—some fellow player late for morning rehearsal, I guessed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They were always half a month or so behind, and talked endlessly to him about paying ahead—after they had a preliminary discussion about what he was doing back so soon anyway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d pick up a new nickname every six months or so. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Her father’s totem—and therefore hers—was shumba, the lion, or so Grandmother believed. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I said nice things about her too, and for the next half hour or so, I think we were genuinely delighted to be with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about all that had happened in the last month or so. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z After half an hour or so, Hermione, growing tired of the endless Quidditch talk, buried herself once more in The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 4, and started trying to learn a Summoning Charm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Adding it all together—the lunch money, the taken-from-her-wallet money, the loose bills and change—might give me another $250 or so, depending on when I left. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z More important, a dozen or so black-clad figures suddenly appeared on the avenue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It became apparent when I was young, twelve or so. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After a minute or so of walking, he heard a shriek from ahead, followed by another, then another. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It looks to be about eight miles or so. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z And after a moment or so I would glance at my watch under cover of my glove, and say: “I’m afraid I ought to be going, it must be after four.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I guess a week or so in custody will do that to you. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Fang never did come back, but Faith really surprised me by returning an hour or so later, with her face back in place and ready to sell more shirts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z After the first fifty words or so of the recording, she switched the passages, such that what had been coming through the left ear was now coming through the right, and vice versa. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Usually my pole was only a foot or so in the water, but then suddenly it would go down three feet and I knew I had found the gut again. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There might have been no war at all for an hour or so, as the men ate and joked in the mellow sunlight of the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither could I see far ahead, the lane winding quite sharply twenty yards or so in front. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After a week or so, I could walk just about normally and I could wear shoes if I didn’t lace them up. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I stood there, half-panting, and it was a moment or so before I realized that nobody was there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It now stretched out for another good ways, maybe forty rods or so. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z For the first time in a decade or so, I blush. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I remember one of our customers, Mrs. Mayfield, they found her son out there, he wasn’t more than seventeen or so. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at my book for a minute or so, making like I was already back into the story, but when I looked up Rondell was still mad-dogging me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, I was rewarded. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Around a bend, we see a large white farmhouse with Greek pillars, a barn, a silo, and a fenced yard where a dozen or so pickup and farm trucks are parked. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes hiding out away from the dead for an hour or so can mean the difference between life and undeath. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Not babies, exactly. But by age two or so they had expressed who they were and what they cared about most. We just sort of—interpreted.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And for the month or so that we lasted, and everywhere that we went, the kisses were wonderful. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z There were three hundred or so chickens floating in the big steel tank of ice water. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The crowd began to thin after an hour or so. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was worth wasting a hundred or so of their highest-level avatars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But after a minute or so, it ground to a stop. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Anyway, after she leaned into him for about four movie scenes, which I guess is about ten minutes or so, he started crying. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Then a year or so later he had received an emergency call to attend Lancy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The sheep—there were four hundred and fifty or so—were kept outside in a small forest-sheltered pasture to the rear of a large metal barn. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z An hour or so later, a nurse showed up. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When they got down to the last five or so someone yelled that the cops were coming and they all ran. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The trees in this area were thinner and richer in color, their roots carpeted with the delicate pink petals of flowers that looked to have finished their bloom a day or so before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “That means I can’t ask you if you could make me invisible, or so small that you could carry me to Capricorn’s festivities.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She twenty-three or so, same as Miss Leefolt and the rest of em. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z After an hour or so Dr. Hoskins, who so far had said nothing at all to the passengers in the back of the wagon, slowly pulled over to the side of the road. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next two years or so Mompesson’s house was haunted by a poltergeist.2 There were drumming noises but also strange levitations of objects and alarming noises. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The old man had challenged the Lord of Light and been struck down for his impiety, or so the gossips told each other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Over the next month or so, Ophelia saw Farmer whenever she could, both in Mirebalais and Port-au-Prince, and they enjoyed each other’s company. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Or if I drew shot, he’d give my bowl a nudge, knock it back three feet or so, and claim the round. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I followed the épée group into the adjacent cafeteria, where we were broken down into smaller groups of ten or so based on our ability. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Helena needed to rest every kilometer or so now. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z That girl is named Kaede, or so the crowd's chants tell me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Are you allowed to use his name in public now?” she asked quickly, trying to keep them there for another minute or so. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Only a dozen or so students are there, fumbling with notebooks and syllabi. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so he realized that they had, after all, come to the right place, for here were Bill and Fleur, Dean and Luna, gathering around him as he knelt over the elf. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It won't surprise me if she moves to a new town in a week or so. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d turn up at the Ex-Services Bowls Club every week and bowl our hearts out for an hour or so before we were packed back onto the bus and sent home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z For the first year or so, I crashed on sofas and rented different flats in the area with the other immigrants who had come to the city with no money. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The first part, getting sick to your stomach, lasts only a day or so, then goes away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “He seems okay. I saw him about a week or so ago.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z About a dozen or so tributes are hacking away at one another at the horn. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The doctor told me to go home and sleep a lot, but to make sure and have someone wake me up every four hours or so. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The school itself consisted of a cluster of two dozen or so graceful, colonial- style buildings, which included individual homes as well as dormitories, the library, and various instructional halls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A girl who looked a year or so younger than me was staring at us from a corner of the room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z But she loved that he’d rebelled against us, or so she thought, and she thought it was something that you rebelled all over again by becoming a classical musician. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus stop was a mile or so away. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Scoob doesn’t move a muscle as they glide to a bumpy stop on the “shoulder” of the highway, or so Dad calls it. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z A dozen or so Gypsies had come to join our guard. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It could only be an hour or so from dawn, yet it was pitch-black. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But he knew this first mile or so, from before, from the day the crow had followed him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Only the ten or so people behind you. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z My eyebrows were gone and the front inch or so of my hair was completely burned off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For the past day or so, he’s just been making them up. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Ours was a baby blue Pontiac Trans Am, which flew past, then screeched to a stop on the shoulder a hundred yards or so down the road, in a cloud of gravelly dust. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Even in getting to know Reggie and Terryl in the past month or so, I could tell they were deep wells—open, accessible, injured people. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He looked high school age, fifteen or so. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z On the last Sunday of spring break it snows again, and for an hour or so, everything is white. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He also stayed long enough in each town to form the most enthusiastic of his converts into religious societies, which in turn he subdivided into smaller classes of a dozen or so people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is doing fine, I believe, though it’s been an hour or so since I heard any news. It will make for a memorable birthday for the twins, I should think.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the last year or so of the war they started giving us something new called K-rations that had a lot more in them, sometimes even fruit drinks, toilet paper, peanuts, and chewing gum. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z You were supposed to stitch a hundred or so of these squares and then sew them together to make a bedspread. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days later, the forest arose, the ice melted, and for about a day or so we had warm, glorious weather. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He read a page or so, then peered out toward us. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z If she left, even just to see the cabin and visit for an hour or so with Charlie, she would lose her position. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z I take some satisfaction in the fact that I’m only under her supervision for another eight hours or so. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Back in the big four-room house, there were many visitors for another week or so. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them, a mile or so away, mountains rose up to a sharp blue sky. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Every week or so my son over in Virginia comes and brings a lady to vacuum a little. It’s really all I need.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z He’d worked off it for a half hour or so but never came on to 58 or 56, never fixed himself properly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z No one had ever seen him so waggish, or so happy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I had feared this was coming, and had my face ready so that it did not betray me—or so I hoped. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A dozen or so people were seated around a large table. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The past week or so, Percy had imagined a lot of scathing things he might say to Nico when they met again, but the guy looked so frail and sad, Percy couldn’t muster much anger. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I look at her, and she looks at the ground about a yard or so from my right ankle. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “He’s some better than yesterday, they think. But it’ll be a day or so before they can really tell for sure.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z They were living with a circus for a day or so. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, tomorrow morning, you will begin the march of the final fifty miles or so to the east. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The remaining eight hundred or so are refugees in District 13—which, as far as I’m concerned, is the same thing as being homeless forever. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “It’s just there—look,” he said, pointing back fifty yards or so. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z After keeping the beat going for five minutes or so, I burst into a big solo. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There were still only a dozen or so headstones; few had been added since her father’s funeral. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself, and he would not allow himself to smile until the job was completed. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z For the first month or so, Helda would shuttle back and forth between all-night diners, drinking coffee to stay awake. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She put a plastic doll’s cup every foot or so, at the edge of the well, and she weighed each cup down with water from the jug. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z It was a lovely thing to do, though such flowers always looked rather wrinkled and hurt for a day or so. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Every forty, fifty years or so there’s a monstrous flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Instead, two or three members of the Fugees would drop in five or so yards behind him, to form a safe area between Zubaid and the goal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z After his return to his home he never spoke of it again to anyone, save Gandalf and Frodo; and no one else in the Shire knew of its existence, or so he believed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He looked a few years older than Stick, maybe twenty-one or so. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “Yes. Until nine or so. Then it started burning off—was mostly gone by the time we set out in the launch, if that’s what you’re driving at, sir.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A dozen or so trolls began to smash apart the chamber with their clubs, while hags glided about the place in search of children to eat. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She used lean-cut meat, dark kidney beans, carrots cut small, a bottle or so of dark beer, and freshly sliced hot peppers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A few days later he was up and to my astonishment for the next year or so he had no further trouble. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Thornbushes grew thick upon the low banks, and under them they made their camp, two hours or so before the middle of the night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Why not? You don’t seem to know Mrs. Cadaver and Mrs. Partridge very well—” “They haven’t lived there very long. Only a month or so.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I was pretty far away from him, about ten meters or so. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The bodies sometimes arrived, a dozen or so at a time, in barrels labeled tmpentine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Thomas looked around and saw there were a dozen or so other graves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The children agreed, and for thirty minutes or so they perused several cookbooks that Justice Strauss recommended. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Though I’d taken only forty minutes or so for lunch, both the Yoshotos were at their desks and at work when I got back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z By the time I had been swimming for a month or so, I was ready for my first challenge. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z For one thing, he was the only white sergeant of the dozen or so there who wasn’t waiting to transfer somewhere else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And then Beans started having to go to the bathroom, or so he said. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z After a hundred yards or so he turned back, sniffed the plate again, and lay down not far from the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z By the time they are twenty or so, we’ll be gone. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He stopped and began to move slowly sideways, the branch tip scratching a yard or so ahead. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At first the miles seemed to pass faster than they had on the trip into town, but for all that, Jethro began to grow tired after three hours or so had gone by. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z A single campfire burned near the center of town, where the night-watch gathered to warm up every hour or so. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But even with radiometric dating, as decay measurements became known, it would be decades before we got within a billion years or so of Earth’s actual age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z About a mile or so down Mong veered us across this little bank, past an old unused road with mad weeds shooting up where paint used to be, and into the thick sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “It’s an aeronautical flare. I thought it looked familiar. I was reading a book on the civil air patrol just a month or so ago.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, she lifted a corner of the blanket and peeped out. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Fort Hare had only one hundred fifty students, and I already knew a dozen or so of them from Clarkebury and Healdtown. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After twenty minutes or so of playing around on my phone, I was ready to go back out to the party. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Jeffrey banged around on my drum set for twenty minutes or so and things felt normal again, for a little while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a parking lot beside the road and a factory a hundred yards or so beyond. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z That was enough to begin trying to solve them—or so she hoped. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z "See that Esther gets a comfortable seat on the train. She'll stay a day or so, maybe." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Our amphibious boats turned around, roared back down onto the beach, and churned their way out into the water fifty yards or so. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour or so after the cops leave, Dad's on his way back to work, and I'm in the kitchen after lunch with Mom, and the phone rings. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z David had discovered a new railroad track a year or so earlier. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z That could be Expect or Expert or so many things. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He fled Virginia around 1927 or so, with Jim Crow hot on his tail, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Union position was approximately three miles in length, or so it seemed from here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he had gone halfway around the lake, and had jumped up twenty or so birds, he finally gave up and sat at the base of a tree. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z And after that, for the next million years or so, the universe would have just continued expanding, without anything much happening. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After a tense half hour or so he guessed the Farm Patrol had seen nothing. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We use the fence to help us climb up onto the garage and then we look up at the three or so stars we can see through the light pollution and smog. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, his calves became numb and he lowered his feet to the ground. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z "You can pretend you found it first thing in the morning. Then you can get the whole day off, instead of just an hour or so this afternoon." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Eight feet or so below her, she saw the black water churning by. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I flopped face first on his bed and stayed that way until he came in an hour or so later. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z For the first week or so, she and Margaret would sit on the porch playing cards or bingo, talking about the men, the cousins, and the children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It whittles you down to lie up to fifty times in the space of the fifteen minutes or so it takes to do a “survey,” even when there’s a higher moral purpose to serve. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “They only rode in back the last mile or so. They was walking and we picked them up.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Being a night game in the spring, it was just perfect Texas weather, 80 degrees or so. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the past month or so Tree-ear had filled his idle time by molding clay. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z From the time she first arrived at Darlington Hall right up until perhaps a month or so before that incident in my pantry, Miss Kenton's days off had followed a predictable pattern. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z If I played like a normal person, I’d probably be at Level 90 or so by now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Each time I think of it, every ten seconds or so all day long, I faint inside. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I don't know how long it has been, maybe an hour or so, when Cato hits the ground and we hear the mutts dragging him, dragging him back into the Cornucopia. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Tree-ear rose before first light now, spending an hour or so in the fields before going to work. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She put her hand on her hip and leaned seductively—or so she thought—against the door jamb. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A hundred or so tufty little plants, purplish green in color, were growing there in rows. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She is perhaps ten years old or so, with wary eyes and a shy smile. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Lying facedown beyond the pile of earth was a boy of fifteen or so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes, standing in the Square under the tree that touched the cell window, they smiled and signaled to him—or so he imagined. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long all thirty or so bears and all their armor were on the narrow shore. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She visits us here in Harlem once a month or so, spending a couple of nights on the sofa bed in Mom's office. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the living room, about thirty or so Bengalis have taken their seats. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Jack was too busy to keep a watchful eye on me, or so I thought. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I realize that many of them are dead, or so near to being dead it’s almost the same thing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The very thought of being married to Tata Ndu seemed to contaminate Rachel’s frame of mind, so that every ten minutes or so she’d stop whatever she was doing and scream with disgust. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Clever. I can see why you’re in the Arcanum. Are you busy for the next hour or so?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z One night, I was on duty when it was pouring rain, and I caught quite a few students — perhaps fifteen or so — relieving themselves from the veranda. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The times demand sacrifices, Anne. Just for a week or so. Women will soon come to the city looking for work, and you and our aunt will be able to hire a full staff.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "America's had two hundred and twenty or so years of independence; India's only had about fifty." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Herr Ribbentrop not being expected for a further hour or so, his lordship had suggested to his guest a tour of Darlington Hall - a strategy which had helped many a nervous visitor to relax. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When, a week or so later, she woke up in pain, a sharp stinging on her side and a great, sickening nausea pervading her body, she panicked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It must have been about an hour or so later that the BFG began to slow his pace. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, he hears her sigh and say, “All right, Ruby Jean. Pull it together. Grab ahold of these granny panties and buck on up, now.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Tree-ear wheeled the cart down the road from Min’s house—a step at a time, or so it seemed. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Hamlet was now alone, or so he believed himself to be. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Presently three of her dozen or so students are Asian. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Every minute or so she comes back to the table to read a part of the article again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They trudge along doggedly, or so it seems to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Zed, without a word or so much as a glance in our direction, crawled to his truck, backed out of the driveway and headed down the street. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a year, Luke, Richard and I would help Grandpa round up a dozen or so to take to the auction in town, where they’d be sold for slaughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I decided that eggs and milk can be gotten from animals without hurting or killing them—or so, at least, I thought. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I really didn’t know her well at all, certainly not well enough for her to dislike me — or so I’d thought. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Others remained in groups, gossiping, or so I supposed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Some nights, at ten or so, they climb a steep, winding path to the top of another hill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I only need enough for a week or so. But I need to borrow a sleeping skin and ground cloth. I’ll mail them back when I get where I’m going. “They’re a wedding present.’’ Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, he pulled the Invisibility Cloak on again and resumed his efforts to get into the Room of Requirement, but his heart was not in it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They might have been scared, or so shocked they could not really know how selfish they were being. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Scott will be home in an hour or so, and I’ll have to tell him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Newt was taller than Alby too, but looked to be a year or so younger. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It is true the event was still a month or so away, but then it had always been our habit to talk over such events from an early stage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He lay back and breathed in deep draughts of splendid Norwegian ocean air, and in another minute or so, he was sitting up again and was on the way to recovery. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first hour or so Lyddie watched, trying mostly to stay out of Diana’s way as she moved among the three machines, two opposite and one adjoining. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We heard that the rebels were stationed in Sumbuya, a town twenty or so miles to the northeast of Mattru Jong. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was the year when computational power became infinite—or so close to infinite that it could no longer be measured. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps if the captain of the Putnam could advance a small sum—say a thousand or so silver dollars? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On the appointed day, an ominous hive of an inch or so square popped up on the colt’s coat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, let’s just say I’m borrowing it back. For a week or so.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z For the first minute or so after my phone died, I just sat there, frozen in silence. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Harry got out too, and after a minute or so, Ron seemed to regain the feeling in his limbs and followed, still stiff-necked and staring. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The last time I saw someone inject Tobias with something, it was Jeanine, putting him under a new simulation, one that was effective even on the Divergent— or so she believed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I walked to the dump, just a block or so from our house, wrinkling my nose as I got close, swatting away flies, and making sure I didn’t step on anything in my nice shoes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the next minute, ten or so cockroaches plopped into the water on either side of the bow. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Belgium and Denmark are only an hour or so apart by airplane, for example. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Violet will want milking in another hour or so! Thanks for the ride.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “For the next week or so, we are going to dig into some Black poetry!” he announces as soon as we are seated. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In flip- flops, he pads to the door every fifteen minutes or so and summons someone for a return call. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Takes me an hour or so to coil it just so in the tub, the way I seen my dad do when he was harpooning tuna. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I figure it’s probably the costliest portable item in the entire Clearview Inn, so I hesitate to leave it in my room for the nine or so hours while I’m away at work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He held his big muscle-man arms across his chest, and even though he was an elderly man of fifty or so, he looked like he could still beat the pants off anybody in the room. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the crest of the field, some way off in the distance - perhaps a good mile or so as the crow would fly - was a small village. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When there had been no sign of her behaviour abating after a fortnight or so, I think you will understand that I started to become a little impatient. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After a mile or so they arrived at a bizarre encampment, where some two hundred people had gathered to spend the winter living out of their vehicles. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d been thirteen or so, doing her homework on her bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He had spent the past hour or so thinking of a way to move forward. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I understand. Please get out of here, the lot of you. Let me have an hour or so.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The overall size of these environments was relatively small, usually just a single world, or a dozen or so small planets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Surely she would have chosen something dignified at the age of ninety or so—maybe a quick cerebral hemorrhage after a full day of work. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I'll be able to dig them out with a day or so of work. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Galileo appealed to sensory experience, but sensory experience established, or so they claimed, that boats float higher in the water when far from shore, and lower as they approach port. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The two hundred or so patients are lined up on straw mats or cots on the floor, their cries echoing off the cold stone walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he disappeared again—I could guess he had gone in through the back door—and for fifteen minutes or so I could not see him. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z These stars shine for ten million years or so, a period corresponding to only 5 percent of a galactic rotation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone only a mile or so from the cliff when the land sloped down into a wide shallow depression, where the ground was soft and wet. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Otherwise feel free to come back in a span or so. We should have things updated by then.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Whilst we were walking for the first mile or so, Mr. Leroy would grunt and nod his head every once in the while, like he was paying some mind to what I was saying. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z I watched for what seemed like an hour but it was probably only fifteen minutes or so. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z But it was only a half hour or so until I was relieved, and it would take me a while to write the report. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But, thanks to these translations and the printing press, Galen’s work was disseminated more widely than ever before over the next ten years or so. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z For a century or so his pod designs had leaned toward the futuristic—plenty of neon and rubber. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, she hears the door to the hall open, and she looks up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z It was a year or so after the wedding, when Mother was expecting her first baby, that Dad confided to her his secret conviction that all of their children would be girls. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Across from me sit these two kids who are about ten or so . . . maybe 11 or 12 but not very old. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The antibiotics will take a day or so to kick in. This’ll bring down the fever.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There is a flat place where the road first reaches the top of the hill—a stretch of about a hundred yards or so before it starts descending again, into the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Every month or so, Frank would find another player from Wynnum to compete against me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He looked like he was fifteen or so, tall and skinny. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He downed six hot dogs, then a can of baby carrots, and gratefully accepted a dozen or so Oreos, one after the other, and ate them with great savor and particularity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z On Alex’s map, nevertheless, the broken line meandered west from the Parks Highway for forty miles or so before petering out in the middle of trackless wilderness north of Mt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “There!” said Ron, after a minute or so. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The first dozen or so were from my parents’ wedding. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so, Madam Pomfrey came over to tell the team to leave him in peace. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He wondered whether he could fight them all off with one hand, while he cradled half a dozen books or so with his free arm. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It usually takes me an extra hour or so to walk as opposed to taking the bus, but it’s worth it when the weather is nice and cool like it was today. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The sickness didn’t last long, but kept him doubled over for an hour or so and left him weak enough to want to sleep again— and that ended another day. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The five hundred or so people who had come out for the five-minute speech then left to go home, happy and satisfied. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a slaughterhouse on the farm where fifty or so pigs were butchered twice a year, exclusively for guards and their families. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Max alerted me when Shoto arrived an hour or so later. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Werfel figured it would take another hour or so to get out of the city. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z An hour or so later she was woken by a shake on the shoulder. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Only seven or so blocks from our homes, drug dealers hang out by the town courts and old men sit around drinking from brown paper bags. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Above deck, she tried to keep her eyes fixed on the horizon—the white cliffs that always seemed just a mile or so to the east. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If they haven’t already lost interest by the time they are twelve or so, their education is over and out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But if we let some of the hens brood, to increase our flock, we might get away with frying a rooster once a month or so. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll go lay these clothes on my radiator and try to sleep, anyway. We only have a day or so to save the world. We’ll need all the rest we can get!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Billy, give me a call in a month or so.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bright and sunny Monday morning when I took the black bus to Rosebank, where the Wanderers Tennis Club was located, about a mile or so from where the Smiths used to live. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Like everyone else, he began in one of the two double-bunked cells but after six weeks or so was moved to his own cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I’ll join him on his beach in a hundred years or so,” said Scythe Curie. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “I’ll be back in an hour or so,” he said, glancing at Mack. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sides, maybe if you were better at hunting you’d catch one of the dozen or so animals that are around here.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z For the next twenty minutes or so everything had gone quite normally. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I rested all the time, I rarely slept longer than an hour or so at a stretch, even at night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Blue blazer, size fifty-two tall? Said he left it here a week or so ago?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z For a second or so more, he was still her own dear soul. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I wrestled with different ideas for a week or so before I finally shared my dilemma with my mother. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z So I started a column called “Birthday Corner,” listing the names of the eighty or so people who had their birthday in the coming month. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The forty or so girls crowded into the small room looked almost like a sewing circle, so many of the girls were doing mending or needlework. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z In this world of dog eat dog, it is rare to find a friend ... a really sincere friend ... or so I thought. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes he left the other two for an hour or so at a time, but they had ceased to pay any attention to his absence now, as sooner or later he always reappeared. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The spike of the past hour or so began to plummet into a crash, adrenaline abandoning her body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She had a birth mother who wasn’t sure whether she wanted to keep her baby or put her up for adoption, and she needed a week or so to make the decision. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid was small and scared, about six or seven years old—maybe just four billion miles or so—with thin buckwheat hair that was plastered down against his ghostly skin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I continued for another half-mile or so, the disturbing smell now growing stronger by the moment, until at last I came out on to a stretch of open road. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z From some way off, or so it seemed, he thought he heard a cry: ‘Hoy! Frodo! Hoy!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z That must have been in 1964 or so—whatever the last year was for the New York World’s Fair. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Clustered in the left corner of the room stood twenty or so black men, all wearing work coats and dungarees, a few sharpening their outfits with newsboy caps or brimmed hats. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A dozen or so tables are spread around the room, their smooth green-felt surfaces looking pristine. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When a dozen or so persons all attempt to broadcast in this manner, and all of us preferred sending to receiving, the accumulation is loud and nerve-shattering. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can you program the flashlight app to flash once every thirty seconds or so?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A crowd of a dozen or so others were lined up in two rows on the other side of the fire, singing the weird chant that Mark had been hearing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Some rules of grammar may shift every eon or so, but you can bet the bank that this one will never change: Subject and verb must agree. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A month or so after the fire, I was setting down a clean pitcher of water in Lady Seymour’s bedchamber whilst Madam read the newspaper aloud to her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z After its path is further changed by gravitational encounters with Jupiter or Saturn, it tends to find itself, once every century or so, careering toward the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And that was how Miss Kenton and I talked for the next two hours or so, there in the pool of grey light while the rain continued to fall steadily on the square outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After dinner we were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks that had just been finished a day or so earlier—although finished was hardly the word for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I wait a full minute or so before climbing to my feet and going to the back of the yard. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The shelter—a basic, three-sided affair with a sloping roof—looked crowded, and a dozen or so tents were scattered around the open ground. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z After a week or so, though, Jeffrey and I made a game of it. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been there for an hour or so. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She was about twelve or so, he thought, and seemed to him pitifully unattractive. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel forked, or so it seemed, and in the dark they could not tell which was the wider way, or which kept nearer to the straight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had dreamed—or so he thought—of a magnificent church with a great, reaching spire that would rise from the city’s tallest hill. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Na Bramie was only a block or so from my little room, but my windows faced the other way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z At any rate, after a few months, one would leave and a week or so later another would come. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “It’s been a bit of a climb,” the man in black explained, “and I’m weary. I’ll be fine in a quarter-hour or so.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Since then, I've gained twenty pounds or so—I'm not ashamed, but I no longer have a mannequin's body. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Never in my life have I been so tired or so cold. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And Mong just keeps peeking his shaved head around the Dumpster every ten minutes or so, to make sure we don’t miss his cousin’s car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Another minute or so of not saying anything went by. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Good idea. We’ve got everything we need, plus a figgy bonus. Now we just need to boil the willow and the mint for twenty minutes or so, then let the tea sit awhile.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Fifty steps to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls to the mouth of the alley that grows ever narrower. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This is the fiftieth time I've been made to scrub this same patch of floor over the three or so years I've been at Miss Preston's, so I know it well. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Among the hundred or so students who were having dinner, I saw Chas sitting with Megan, over where all the seniors hung out. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly two mud-covered jeeps swerved out of a corner three or so blocks from where I stood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Kote guessed the travelers had been together a month or so, long enough to become comfortable with each other, but not long enough to be squabbling over small things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes Amari was rescued by the redheaded sailor, but on most nights she was just another female body to be used by one of the forty or so sailors on board that awful ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The circle was contracting because it wanted to touch the knights—not now, not for half an hour or so, not until the examination was over, perhaps never. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s an idea that came to her a week or so earlier when she’d gotten a visit from a local sheriff, Sergeant Tony Hudson. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And, really, maybe the best idea is to go check into a nice hotel under her maiden name for a week or so—at our expense, of course—would she mind terribly? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “I know you must be starving, but if you can hold out for another half hour or so Mr. Jimmy’s going to make everyone’s lunch. Think you can wait?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z If we became free of disease, we would make a much better run of it for the last decade or so, but might still terminate on about the same schedule as now. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t think he was ever going to forgive me, but an hour or so later, after he talked to Noah, he asked me to go for a swim with him, our first in years. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The dozen or so riders of the hunt passed them, with the sight hounds running lightly alongside. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she made some more coffee and drank it this time, and then she felt a little more on top of things and managed to read for an hour or so. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Two weeks ago, just days after his fourteenth birthday, Lon would never have believed his life could change so drastically or so fast. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Five admirers on every street corner, twenty or so friends, the favorite of most of my teachers, spoiled rotten by Father and Mother, bags full of candy and a big allowance. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “The sun is only a little while away. About an hour or so, I’d say.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He was probably doing thirty or so when he tried to cut between two barns. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When he dreamed of the shadow or so much as thought of it, he felt always that same cold dread: sense and power drained out of him, leaving him stupid and astray. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z And they did remain silent about their services for a decade or so. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “It’s a mile and a half or so back,” Annabelle says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, Harry heard the clunks of Moody’s wooden leg growing fainter in the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z First we would walk to my village, and then they would continue on to theirs—another 25 miles or so. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, a year or so earlier, Tree-ear had asked him how long he had lived there. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Around her were scattered twenty or so pairs of shoes, in all sizes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In the photos, her mother was young, a girl of seventeen or so, and her face was not so tired. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Once, while Theresa was taking his history, a glittery-eyed patient grabbed her waist and put his mouth to her ear — or so she gathered later. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z For a minute or so, we sit and eat. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The lagoon now flooded Venice more and more often, something that in the past only happened every five years or so. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Every day or so after that, Dad would leave a piece of paper, containing a Morse code message, on the dining room table. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them were another dozen or so monstrous creatures, no two alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was impossible to tell how high, or in which direction it was flying; but the sound was there for a minute or so, and then it was gone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dinner is in an hour or so, I need to get the girls fed before fellas start arriving.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The 150 or so inmates gathered there were suddenly shouting, running, in disarray. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen or so of the birds are piled at my feet. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And for the first time, or so it seemed, I noticed the piece on the right-hand side. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, more breaks in the walls led to other paths, and farther down, maybe a hundred yards or so away, the straight passage came to a dead end. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z In a minute or so, there came three quick jerks on the string, and Mr. Little carefully hauled it up. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z I knew from talking to other astronauts and from my own Gemini flight that this feeling was normal and would pass within an hour or so. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They had made a schedule that said they would check in once a week or so—it was very loose—and that they would call if there was an emergency. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so I got restless. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Forty or so parents had gathered on the home team’s sideline to cheer their boys on, and they clapped as their sons walked onto the pitch. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The water was cool but not icy, and it had an unpleasant taste, at once bitter and oily, or so they would have said at home. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z With another hop and a bound there came into view a man, or so it seemed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “My passport should come in a month or so,” I said, unfolding a photocopy of the application for her to see. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The bite takes anywhere from a few minutes to an hour or so to change a person. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It was thirty feet or so deep, with a dry floor: an ideal den for a bear or a wolf, but the only creatures living in it for years had been birds and bats. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There were only a dozen or so tents, nowhere near large enough for an emperor’s army. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Every ten minutes or so, a drunk girl or boy would stumble in my room to see if they could make out there or something. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so at 170°, I would be red as a boiled lobster, but feeling good—relaxed, drowsy, and healthy. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He can put a load on while he’s washing that shitheap dog of his—that’ll take at least a few hours or so.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They were a big help and let me use my lower limbs to provide some extra momentum, but they would only stay on for a minute or so before starting to slide off. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The officers sat there with their light pointed at me for a minute or so. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “An ordinary common or garden rat like this can’t be expected to live longer than three years or so,” said the witch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A few months later, I boarded a flight to Paris with my teacher and a dozen or so of my classmates from Whitney Young. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He better not be a serial killer or so help me...Nah, he’s chill. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He stood thinking for a serious half a minute or so. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Steadily the other dishes were brought in, a half dozen or so of them, one varied and progressive course. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten minutes or so later came the sound of another car and I opened the door to Herr Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, by now no stranger to Darlington Hall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so of this, Matt rode off to the oasis. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you realize that we may be another hour or so just finding the dining room?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z About twenty or so men and women occupy a U-shaped table. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z A bearded man of thirty years or so was brought onto the stage by Stanchion and introduced to the audience. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Here on the Stroll, one black man commented, “for a minute or so one forgets the ‘Problem.’” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For the first mile or so, I feel high and excited, like I just ran into a burning building and saved lives, like I’m some sort of hero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Trouble was, when I got within ten feet or so, he would just move away and graze on another patch of grass. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He cited the conclusion of Lawrence and Teller that “several score of inspection stations would be required to monitor testing in the Soviet Union,” not the dozen or so proposed by Stassen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I can come get you in an hour or so. You can’t get into the labs without me anyway.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, Luma blew her whistle and called everyone in. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Her eyes were closed for twenty minutes or so, and she was not quite asleep, when suddenly, from very close by, there came a resounding crash that shook the ground. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They continued until they got within a hundred yards or so—the singing was crystal clear and the shadows from the flames circled and flashed in the canopy of branches above them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We were a bit worried about the twins, but of course it wouldn’t have posed a problem even if they’d had to wait ten days or so and follow us down later. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The hour or so after I woke up was my least favorite part of each day, because I spent it in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Hours turned to days, or so it seemed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Every thirteen steps or so, they came to a landing and an iron door leading to the inner core of the building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Strong lost his hearing and ditched the gang to work in a tannery in Canada, or so the rumor went. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z How many times had he faced death in the last year or so? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The shelter, a simple wooden affair, open on one side, stood in a snowy glade—a little winter wonderland—150 yards or so off the main trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z After that, she began having a child every couple years or so. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After an hour or so I got restless. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Monsoon season was almost here, so she only had a week or so at most. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I stayed out in the game room for another hour or so, to give the kid some space. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z A foot or so from the hole she stopped, stood still, and watched and listened. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z As I continued running across the field and up the ramp of my ship, I spotted a large squadron of gunships, about a hundred or so, descending from the sky directly above my location. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After a seizure, I usually need to sleep for twelve hours or so, just to give my atoms a chance to settle in and hold hands again like good neighbors. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A dozen or so students are chatting at the foot of the stage. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, an officer blew a whistle and everyone jumped to attention. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I would sink the gaff to a depth of four feet or so, sometimes with a fish speared on the hook as bait, and I would wait. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I get it all rigged with an hour or so to spare, so I figure to cook supper for me and Dad while I’m waiting for the tide. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Fadi skimmed over the page and saw that the results of the competition would be announced December first, and the awards ceremony would take place in San Francisco the following week or so. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He flipped open a compartment under his car’s CD player, pulled out one of thirty or so CDs that were jammed into the small space, and handed it to me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It takes Mark only ten minutes or so to realize that Alec is the person he wants to be close to until they’re back safe and sound in their homes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, I find it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Over a single week, the hundred or so remaining citizens of Bithynios packed their belongings and set out for main-land Greece, most en route to America. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z After having to get by on less water for a week or so, Stanley now felt like he had all the water he could want. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I stay put for a half an hour or so, trying to figure out what to do about the supplies. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I screamed and begged for her to leave my journals alone, but she went through them anyway and left me with only a dozen pages or so. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Roger and Billy were still on guard, and there was still a noise of shrieking and laughter from the arena, because only a minute or so had gone by. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Of the five hundred or so new people in our village, there are only two or three babies among the families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the month or so that they are visible, all that distinguishes them from the other stars in the sky is that they occupy a point of space that wasn’t filled before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One hundred and twenty folding chairs were taken, and the forty or so people standing near the entrance were told to move near the podium and sit on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We refugees divided ourselves into circles of a dozen or so. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The night watchman had already made his rounds at 10 P.M. or so, and this was after 11 P.M. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But for the first fifteen seconds or so, the noble was uneasy. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z After a mile or so he turned onto a gravel road that mostly followed the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The extra rope, ten feet or so, I looped around the footrest oar. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z If you go in the wrong door you get the strap, or so everyone says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Neither of us had felt so good or so dean since we had been aboard die Hato. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For an hour or so, all we saw was seaweed drifting by. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Changing the jars was no trouble to anyone but the men who watched them changed every hour or so and were baffled by the procedure. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I don’t want to go to sleep, I just want to exhaust myself and rest a little bit so I can make the trip at the appropriate time, in an hour or so. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Will stood back and held out the knife, searching, touching the air with the most delicate movements, until after a minute or so he found a point at which he could cut. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Making brand-new models might take all of a week, whereas an answer was possible within a day or so. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I feel tears welling up again, as they have every hour or so since yesterday, and I push them away, swallow them down. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Want to take a walk for, like, twenty-four-thousand miles or so?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, the crowd thinned enough for him to see me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Just as a top-quality family was growing out of a top-quality house; or so Helen believed. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Just twenty-one or so, both of them, and they had the biggest ship chandlery in Salem. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re not mine. Not really. I’m just holding them for a day or so.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z A small ship with big sails, she was faster than any warship afloat, or so her captain had claimed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It sounded like three or so uglies, talking in low tones as if still wary of the ghosts of the Rusty ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z ‘Elves do not walk in Ithilien in these days. And Elves are wondrous fair to look upon, or so ’tis said.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As his absence sank in, I said Otto’s name less and less frequently, finally calling only every minute or so. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His sister had oft called upon the High Septon of late, to seek the blessings of the gods in their coming struggle with Lord Stannis ... or so she would have him believe. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z About a month or so after the big loss, on a Saturday, Russ and Mr. Allen pick me up. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing that the gaze was only going to intensify as we moved into the last six or so months of the campaign, we agreed, finally, that I needed real help. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, Malcolm thought a lot about the strange half hour or so with Lord Asriel in the moonlit priory garden. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “I saw a Help Wanted sign in their window and I’m going down there to check it out. I know I’m only going to be here for another month or so but, hey, why not?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It was heavy for them, even in this way, so that they had to stop every twenty yards or so, to change over. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the next two decades or so, most of his educated contemporaries gradually came to the same conclusion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Instead, after fifteen minutes or so of motoring, I found myself out on a long road curving across bleak, open moorland. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Today we have "120 or so" known elements–ninety-two naturally occurring ones plus a couple of dozen that have been created in labs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He’s a short man with an unruly strand of hair and a limp, who may have been in the war himself, or so rumor goes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I would save my rejection slips, and every six months or so I would put them into a neat pile to check my progress. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We marched another mile or so Silent, w'ith the dire Expectation of Grapeshot & Cannonade. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Gall led the charge and Crazy Horse followed, and forty or so mounted warriors were close behind them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z A colonel’s horse boy might very well know a day or so, or even a few hours, before a colonel marched. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Conventional electrodynamic theory demanded that a flying electron should very quickly run out of energy–in only an instant or so–and spiral into the nucleus, with disastrous consequences for both. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That might take a bit of time; even the bravest would be dismayed after watching a thousand or so of his fellows consumed by wildfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I had no idea the mountains could be so big or so cold or so beautiful. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have only to wait a minute or so and then we can walk straight out the front door.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z That is why Miss Charlotte Mortimer had sent the herbal poultice; at Swanburne her headmistress used to apply it to Penelope’s head every six weeks or so to maintain scalp health and repel lice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Ibis and Jacquel was a small, family-owned funeral home: one of the last truly independent funeral homes in the area, or so Mr. Ibis maintained. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z After another minute or so, Noodles stopped walking. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “We were just there the other day. It took about an hour or so.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z We felt like the case was open-and-shut, but then one day, after a month or so, we got a call that he’d made bail. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He set off down the lane, and after a hundred yards or so, he took a key from his pocket and opened a door in the wall on the right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was a bachelor, a man of sixty or so, plump and sharp-witted. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” he said, pouring the remaining inch or so into his teacup. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He would disassemble the fifteen or so pieces and spread them at random on the table or floor, then see how fast he could reassemble them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Usually I’d find the core dozen or so that I was coming to recognize on sight. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A month or so later, I received a four-page letter from Martin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She hadn’t gotten very high, maybe ten toadstools or so, when she felt herself losing her grip. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Seven thousand husbands and fathers, wives and mothers, brothers and sisters, and children had been taken to their deaths—or so we heard from survivors. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The warmth of the thirty or so people inside, the familiar aroma of spices and good cooking, and the hushed play of children was extraordinarily comforting, the way wakes were, or weddings or baptisms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She was “fed up with the little monster,” or so Beatrice overheard her say on the telephone. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked for a mile or so down the shore, the water cool and calm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z After repeating “are” a dozen times or so, that particular shape disappeared and another one came on the screen, still under the picture of the rat. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The team celebrates by eating a dozen or so pizzas. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, the muscles in my legs relaxed to the point where walking was no longer painful. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “More like the lion, or so they tell me,” he said lightly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Quite clearly and emphatically, and only a yard or so away from the back of the shelter, a stick cracked. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It is conveniently situated on one comer of the village square, a rather charming ivy-covered manor house capable of housing, I would suppose, thirty or so guests. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z And the goals get reinforced, or so it seems, by the buzz of an incoming call or text, alerting us to a new development in the narrative of our lives. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, only a plywood foot or so away in the women’s restroom, Vera, Flossie, and Nancy almost collided trying to get in out of the storm through the same door at the same time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are only about twenty-three thousand people living in Arles, a huge change from the two million or so he just left in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I wonder Maxim did not stay a week or so in London and get you something decent to wear,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so, he gave up and turned to sit with his back against the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Another dozen or so students had filtered in since I had arrived. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So he focused on the dozen or so hand mirrors levitating just beyond A.M. and P.M. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I woke an hour or so later in the velvety space where you don’t yet remember what you’ve dreamed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A walk down to the village could be accomplished in a half-hour or so and there I could surely find accommodation and a can of petrol. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I could go back to the pile of blankets that passes for my bed and wait for morning to come, which by my estimation would be another few hours or so. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She put the dozen or so bottles of insulin that Rahel brought her in the cheese and butter compartment. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the interpreters are Eyes, or so it’s said. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a year or so older than Charles and growing like red birch, and to hear the mistress carry on, about as useless. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Besides, something very good was about to happen, or so it seemed. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z By the fact that Milton took hundreds of baby photographs of Chapter Eleven and no more than twenty or so of me? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you try to take a nap, dear. Only another hour or so and then we’ll be at the farm, and you and Granddad have some work to do before supper.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z After tripping and cursing and generally feeling miserable for another mile or so, I started to see light up ahead: the colors of a neon sign. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Two workers, a young man in a nurturer's uniform and a volunteer, a girl of ten or so, were tidying things. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’m standing in front of twenty or so people in the lobby. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z That wasn’t even two years ago, and now he was one of the richest men in Monroe County, or so he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Of the fifty or so children, most were under the age of five. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The neighborhood grew hap-hazardly a century or so ago and today looks hardly urban at all. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But I got up every hour or so to see how he was, and to check the fire. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Go down the street to the beauty supply and pick up some relaxer for me,” says my mother every two months or so. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It had been a decade or so since I’d eaten pork, but suddenly that seemed irrelevant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But I had heard hundreds of such speeches—or so it seemed to me at first. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z And she didn’t have much to say for the next week or so when she came into the drugstore. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d walk slow, smiling and swaying her hips, and Jim would take unauthorized leave, run up to the flat and they’d be very happy together for a half hour or so. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She runs another mile or so away from that awful place, and when it is no longer visible behind her, she slows, and then stops. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I was open, and I figured I had about a second or so before I’d be surrounded by Shirts. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For the next hour or so we took turns getting each other beers, until she came back the last time with a plastic cup full of tequila. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I started it a week or so after the sinking of the Tsimtsum. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His design called for “a hundred or so pieces,” he explained, “which had to fit together to within a precision of a few thousandths of an inch.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The first sailing vessel dates back to 7,000 years or so ago, and so does the origin of writing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, Colonel Marx stopped the car in front of a small shop on a quiet street. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The art had become ordinary, the way you rarely look out a window to take in the view after a month or so of living in a place. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In the cases where the Supreme Court had previously granted relief under the Eighth Amendment, the number of sentences challenged usually totaled fewer than a hundred or so nationwide. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She seemed to think she needed to have it all finished up in the next week or so. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His best option was to join the dozen or so kids who were already scattered over the bleachers, heads bent together in clusters of two and three, and blend in when they left. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The creatures flew around Will’s head, sometimes only a foot or so away, but they always swerved aside or upward at the last moment. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “And what will become of those whom you command? What will happen to those who call themselves — or so rumor has it — the Death Eaters?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At the table right next to me, there were these three girls around thirty or so. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z As for me, my place was in the house of study, or so they said. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We gave the inmates twenty minutes or so to finish their meals, then set back down the gallery wearing latex gloves and bearing huge trash bags. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “A full dose would have killed her, yes, but a small scratch will make her weak and drowsy for half a day or so.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A week or so after Richard was robbed, Jasmine came into his room to talk to him as he got ready for school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She lived by herself in the old slave quarters out past Granddaddy’s laboratory, and though it had once housed a dozen or so slaves, it was the perfect size for one person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Another nun, Sister Katarina, was coming to keep an eye on the baby while Sister Fenella went to the oratory for a private service of her own, or so Malcolm gathered. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Mark thought he might explode, so confused was he by what had transpired over the last half an hour or so. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z And if, after a hundred years or so, water was still there. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It was similar to the dozen or so shacks strewn irregularly, like lumps on a leper, upon the cracked greenless piece of ground named yard number thirty-five. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Meanwhile, this daughter of his has been fetching and pouring, a fat little thing, eighteen or so—" "Thirteen, more like," Raff the Sweetling drawled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She might have doubted what she had done, and what she could still see on the screen, but she had passed in the last half-hour or so beyond doubt and belief altogether. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, his sore muscles seemed to loosen up a little bit. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Within twenty feet or so of the gate, the cameras started clicking, a noise that sounded like some great herd of metallic beasts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When it gets too old, perhaps 20 or so years old, you can slaughter it in a special ritual in your boma, the corral that surrounds the cows at night. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about ten after twelve or so then, and so I went back and stood by the door and waited for old Phoebe. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z It’s a franchise: there are Soul Scrolls in every city center, in every suburb, or so they say. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she boils them for another hour or so. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After a day or so, you would meet your family and your official period of visitation began. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Going westward a mile or so they came to a dale. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Well,” she said, turning to Mrs. Parry, “I’m sure it won’t matter for a day or so. You can have my daughter’s room, dear. She’s in Australia. She won’t be needing it again.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I left it to fly here and find you. I came with the gyptians, all the way from our world. They will be here in another day or so.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication; my father, I recalled, had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z We were still jammed in twenty yards or so from the car by all the people on the wide sidewalk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was a flash of inspiration and ambition—which was, according to Shakespeare, what Macbeth was feeling a day or so before he murdered Duncan. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z At stun setting a sonic gun can locate its resonance-field only within a hundred feet or so. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She settled herself at once to walk the mile or so to the bus station, stopping to put on her thin jacket against the November wind. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z After another minute or so of arguing, I give up and head back down to the cinema. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z He started to move along the bank, and did well for fifty or so yards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z We're joined by others along the way, but they split off once we grow to fifteen or so. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Before me, the crowd of twenty or so surged along the brink of the pit. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Garden plots were planted in random spots between the buildings, twenty or so one-story structures made from long planks of wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z An hour or so after we finished eating, Rondell fell sound asleep on his bag, and Mong motioned for me to follow him closer to the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z That is to say, it was towards the end of the day during a quiet week and I had been enjoying a rare hour or so off duty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z At least three of the thousand or so ads I scanned promised “fun, casual” workplace environments, and I pictured flannel- shirted teams bantering on their afternoon cider-and-doughnut breaks. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can we work on it later? Maybe around four or so?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He had died a day or so earlier at Nairobi Hospital with a combination of extreme symptoms that suggested an unidentified Level 4 virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After an hour or so, Daddy would pull up, get out, hand Constantine a dollar. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Gwydion had called out to him once—or so Taran believed—he could not recall his friend’s words, perhaps even that had been part of the nightmare. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z But as we walked out, following thirty yards or so behind all the seniors, I was nervous about what I was going to do that night. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Most of the displaced white students have found somewhere to go to school. Like ninety percent or so.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “You still have about fifteen or so minutes until the first bell rings. Stay as long as you want. But can I ask you two what’s wrong?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z For ten minutes or so, Mrs. Bradley rattled off statistics—local statistics—that surprised us all. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z My mother held to her idea and one night a week or so later I found myself standing in a room in a frame house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We had made light of all the advantages we had been given and had treated the school with disdain, or so it seemed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Of those, there were two dozen or so scores under 20, eight over 90, and four more over 100. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So there's like a hundred million people or so who know exactly how far south it goes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, he was satisfied here, he had said so, and men disliked change, or so Old Rit had told her, saying also that women thrived on it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept a perimeter of about ten feet or so around me, and stayed in Mrs. Sidman’s line of sight. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Joel climbed onto the tractor, threw it into gear, and slowly towed the rickety henhouse fifty yards or so. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She’s fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z An endless series of cattle pens stretched to the horizon, each one home to a hundred or so animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was able to show fair patience for the first day or so of waiting for the grains of gold to accumulate in Ibni’s next wineskin. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was well past lunchtime, so I drove the five miles or so to Mt. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z What happens is this: After a minute or so, Mr. Kiley steps out onto the stage and gets everybody quieted down. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z The Doctorita is with a patient in her office, and I’m not expecting her to be done for an hour or so. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She had just met a small girl who possessed, or so it seemed to her, quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The town had been a resort destination, new and planned, for only a decade or so before the invasion. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Put the pan on the stove and turn on the stove to medium or so. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Probably no area in the developed world has undergone a more profound change in just a century or so, at least not in a contrary direction to the normal course of progress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the last half-century or so, sensibilities have changed, and the old practice now strikes us as lopsided. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Such events occur only once in a thousand years or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I walked and walked, down the hill and through the endless groves of trees, back over ground that I had gratefully put behind me forever, or so I had thought. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The dozen or so people in this car are all like me, going through the motions, stepping forward, trying not to run screaming from the train into the arms of Exclusion Guards with large guns. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Eighty or so cattle were bunched together in a section of a much larger field. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Ten or so troops surround it, taking aim at a sniper on the fourth floor of the Beaumont Hotel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The police would never know it had been unfastened for a night, or so we thought. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z On one side of the room—to his right—-there was a row of forty or so large white pods that looked like enormous coffins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Zeitoun sat and stared at the photo for a minute or so before putting it back in the box. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And Winifred’s neck went back to her head Though she had the scar always — or so it is said. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Joe was right that he could make more money with mushrooms in a few days than he could in a week or so on his paper route in Pittsburgh. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z An hour or so later, when I made an inmate return an extra helping of bacon that Cueball had bestowed, he glared at me anew and pointed at the inmate I had stopped. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her skin became so hot it gave Xan blisters, or so cold that she made a frostbitten imprint of her body on Glerk’s chest when she gave him a hug. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Out of a dozen or so people, she’s the only one in a suit. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I checked the talent every dozen steps or so to reassure myself that my numb hand was still gripping it tightly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was dark, maybe eight o’clock or so, and the drummers and singers were loud and wonderful. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I say it because every morning since he turned eleven or so he would wake up before anyone else in the house, go out onto the porch, and read a chapter of a book. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He calculated that he could just make it in the hour or so left before he should be back on the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time the palisade was also intended to welcome the citizenry—anyone could freely pass through its dozen or so wide gates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a fullish half minute or so, there were no other words, no further speech. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It would be dark in an hour or so, but he thought that it wouldn’t matter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The man, already a foot or so inside the shack, cleared his throat while the woman stood silently by the doorway, and said, “Can we sit down?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so, he pulls the blinds, turns out the lights, and sits next to me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was big and glittering and had everything in the world in it...or so it seemed to an eleven-year-old girl. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For the blast of a supernova explosion to kill you, he explained, you would have to be "ridiculously close"–probably within ten light-years or so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We ate the dust of the road for a mile or so. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Every twenty sleeps or so it was time to change the bedding. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z But a year or so later, when Samira was in college, I reluctantly agreed to keep her most severe act of rebellion to myself. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She lifted her head only an inch or so and right away I saw her. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The roof was only seven feet or so off the ground, and unlike the other buildings, it had no roofed tunnel to connect it with the rest of the station. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Here Zooey stared blankly at the plaster ceiling for a matter of ten seconds or so, then closed his eyes again. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z In 1928 a group of thirty or so Native American Indians had been living on one of the large ranches below the St. Francis Dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Please," she whispered as she opened the book, “please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z At the time, the Maya realm consisted of sixty or so small, jostling statelets scattered across what is now northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatan Peninsula. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s been in progress for a week or so. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Sauron knows all this, and he knows that this precious thing which he lost has been found again; but he does not yet know where it is, or so we hope. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She had been there only a moment or so when a slave rushed out screaming, “Treason! Our master! Treason!” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A minute or so passed, and another, and then the white door opened just a crack. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A year or so earlier, I’d sat with my parents in their living room, bursting with pride as we watched Santita and her siblings introduce their father at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Minerva lived in a little nothing house—or so Mate had described it to me—in that godforsaken town of Monte Cristi. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later he let out a reverberating belch, and ten or so bees flew out of his mouth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Kabarak is in Nakuru, in the Great Rift Valley about 90 miles or so from Nairobi. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard there were enemy troops. Fifteen, twenty or so. Where are they going? What are they trying to do? Something happen?” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z More money than anybody in the world needed for seven months or so away from home. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ruthanne pointed ahead to the wrought iron fence that surrounded hundreds or maybe fifty or so graves. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z So they opened another section, called the observation unit, where they could put a patient for half a day or so under the most basic care. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z After an hour or so with my mother, I left to spend the night at Mqhekezweni. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been one of the enormous boys who sat in the back of the schoolroom—sixteen or so when she was a tiny one in the front row. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He came home at three o’clock or so and was captured by two detectives in the hallway of his house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The smooth black bumps he had taken for rocks were actually the backs of another dozen or so enormous cockroaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, after a few months or so, I got bored enough with the sneaking about to jump the barrier fence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He’d never smelled such fresh air or so many trees and flowers. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Her rule is that we just have to check in with her every half hour or so. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z This phrase, ‘immutable mobiles’, sums up neatly the epistemological paradox of the fact: facts can be moved around, transferred from one person to another, without being degraded, or so at least the story goes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She was a beautiful, dark-haired woman of thirty or so. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Fifty or so students lined up on the sidelines along with Stephanie, wearing the shirts. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z To examine the individual particles composing the rings of Saturn we must approach them closely, for the particles are small—snowballs and ice chips and tiny tumbling bonsai glaciers, a meter or so across. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been suggested that the major ice ages on our planet, which recur every hundred million years or so, may be due to the interposition of interstellar matter between the Sun and the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ricky bought it from the town dump with a jar of quarters—or so he claimed—a pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he’d hung from the mirror couldn’t mask. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It must have been twenty minutes or so later that I encountered Miss Kenton again, this time while I was busy with preparations for dinner. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Twenty or so men and women dressed in deep purple robes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I thought if she could get through the next day or so, she would be all right because of the Christmas break. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “A hundred and fifty miles or so; we’ve come farther over worse ground. There are roads all the way; people will take us in; we may get a lift on a power-sledge.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z He went on: “The sick ones were being killed, or so I thought.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And there were twenty, no, thirty, no, fifty or so people making themselves at home in our yard. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood there for another half a minute or so, just nodding, waiting for an eastbound bus when she knew I was headed for the west side. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Ever’ six weeks or so,” George continued, “them does would throw a litter so we’d have plenty rabbits to eat an’ to sell. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands a foot or so back from the fence, totally sweaty, with a white turtleneck under his soccer shirt. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We were real worried about them for a day or so. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Of the thirty or so kids in my class, almost all of them were white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If I extended the radius another two dozen blocks or so, I’d take in numerous other Pulitzer recipients, as well as the chief justice of the U.S. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the meantime, my father returned every six months or so to see us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z As it was, I waited a week or so, then pulled myself together enough to copy the poem out on clean notebook paper and mail it to Lyrics Unlimited. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, every other day or so, usually in some public place, they would flash the badge to search me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He fled Virginia around 1927 or so, with Jim Crow hot on his tail, so to speak. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My resolve is almost immediately broken at the first table, which has twenty or so soups, when I encounter a creamy pumpkin brew sprinkled with slivered nuts and tiny black seeds. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In a minute or so I felt myself being lifted up; and swinging back and forth in the net, I was carried with my three companions to the white truck I had seen earlier. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z A minute or so later she joined her goose dæmon again, and the dæmon kept silence with her as they soared and wheeled above the foggy mountains. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was black, stood about five ten, and carried a muscular 210 pounds or so. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A silence followed for a minute or so. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z For ten minutes or so all was quiet. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Storms rage within the walls as well as without. More ffeedmen died last night, or so I have been told.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When three cubs were born ten weeks ago, rangers visited all fifty or so of the inhabited islands to share the good news. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He indicated the son who seemed around twenty or so. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s a relief when one of the ten or so men on the stage orders us to stand and start singing, because the folding chair is torturing my overworked back. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All over Harlem during the hour or so before that, Christian church services were dismissing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, smoking thoughtfully, he listened to the radio and allowed his eyes to drift half-assedly around the landscape as he drove the fifteen or so miles to Dona Luz. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour or so later my shoulders ached and the hearth was clean. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My feet sink an inch or so into it. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We also know that it reverses itself every 500,000 years or so on average, though that average hides a huge degree of unpredictability. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was a ditch thirty or so yards distant that we employed as a latrine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But the Pirate’s Den has existed in one form or another almost as long as the internet’s been around, and every decade or so, there’s an assassination that actually goes through. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Davis darted up a flight of floating marble stairs, leaving me alone with Noah—or so I thought—until a woman I hadn’t seen called out, “That’s a real Picasso.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Every six months or so, my mother would contact him because she missed him, only to disappear again. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He kept having to wade into the foot or so of freezing water to retrieve his arrows, so eventually Pinch’s attention turned back to the camp. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z A year or so later, my baby brother, Andrew, was born. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Even if it is one of her tamer songs—or so she says—I am not taking the flak for that.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I wanted her to ask for divorce, which she did after about a year or so. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “No more than a week or so,” I promised. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He pulls out ten or so round beads from his shirt pocket and lays them in a row in the dirt. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z An hour or so into the serving there was a commotion at Gaines’s table, and the mess hall grew silent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyddie had never seen harvesters eat so much or so noisily. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But it is true, I had been considerably distracted during the last hour or so of motoring prior to the petrol running out. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Galileo had been an experimental scientist for some time, a decade or so—in fact, since he had read William Gilbert’s On the Magnet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For the next eight years or so Jojo lived in a small cell with steel bars and a cement floor. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Anya took her bow from where it hung across her back and nocked an arrow into it, aiming at the boy, who walked a dozen or so paces behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He is not to be dazzled with trimming or fins or doodads and he is not required by his status to buy a new model every year or so to maintain social face. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m with them for half an hour or so, an endless agony for them as they deal with the surprise of what’s unfolding in their minds, the realization that they’re the ones this time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents, a generation or so removed from these earliest settlers of Alexandra, had, too, come from the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Come August he’d lay up the Mary Rose and mate on Fin Chaser for a month or so. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I had only known Jim Lovell for a year or so. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A month or so after Lydia left, Laydee saw one of Dill’s videos in Lydia’s Twitter feed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In two weeks, she had memorized the two thousand or so names or headings on the file box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is very good,” I said, half a minute or so later, just as the first euphoric sparkle was starting to hit my synapses. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I remember sitting on the sofa, set on the stage like a throne, Soraya’s hand in mine, as three hundred or so faces looked on. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Beyond it a mile or so away stood a red-and-white-striped lighthouse. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily continued to flip pages, stopping every third page or so. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Liszt was moving away from the idea of music as an abstract entity, something to be listened to attentively for forty or so minutes, towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Since the galleries are all locked down at night, mainly her job is to check, every hour or so, that every inmate is still breathing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have a radius of only ten miles or so and a density of hundreds of millions of tons per cubic inch. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The first half hour or so focuses on the pre-arena events, the reaping, the chariot ride through the Capitol, our training scores, and our interviews. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When all the two hundred and fifty or so boys and girls were settled down in Assembly, the Trunchbull marched on to the platform. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “According to my readings, they were once quite popular among the upper classes, though I’m sad to say they’ve gone out of fashion in the last century or so.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A dozen or so soldiers dashed down the middle of the street, their boots thudding. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling from King's finding to Dome by way of Braavos was scarcely the most direct of routes, but it was the safest... or so he hoped. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Back then they had their whole lives ahead of them, or so they thought. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The sun had set, and I could hear my younger brothers preparing for bed, so I reckoned it to be eight o’clock or so. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It was from the Bible, or so they said. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But probably—or so Aunt Chipo said—he had found himself another wife and forgotten all about his daughter by now. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they didn’t feel so sick or so scared, as if they’d already handed their fates over to someone else without even realizing it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He and his mother went back to the fields after they had rested for an hour or so. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z It took me a second to remember that there were a dozen or so steps up to the stage and she was walking up them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z After an hour or so of drinking, these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages - a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “He was home about four or so,” she said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Certainly, it was quite a strenuous walk - though I can say it failed to cause me any real difficulty - the path rising in zigzags up the hillside for a hundred yards or so. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He preceded me to the shower, and I locked him in for his ten or so minutes of allotted bliss. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour or so later I heard Tillie clear her throat with a grunt, saw her cough, and spit into the boiling soup. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Strange beds have rarely agreed with me, and after only a short spell of somewhat troubled slumber, I awoke an hour or so ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z And now it is a cool, gray October day a week or so later. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You can take off that suit now. The field is UV-filtered, or so I’m told.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z I would reach it by eight or so. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z After ten minutes or so, it stopped, pulling toward what looked like a blank wall. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Courage without caution makes for early death, or so you tell me daily,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon another thousand or so townspeople joined the small army at the station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A half an hour or so of Web research revealed an agreeably tight labor market, with entry-level jobs advertised at $8 an hour or more and studio apartments for $400 or less. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with Mrs. Weasley checking her watch every minute or so, they headed farther along the street in search of Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, the joke shop run by Fred and George. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Down there was an empty space of fifty feet or so between the last stump and the stockade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Start cutting rectangles, about the size of the Maps. Newt and Teresa, you can help me grab the first ten or so Maps from each section box.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z For a week or so they spoke cautiously of what they’d seen, and then it faded out of the realm of the discourse they shared together. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It turned out to be the wrong office for our purpose, and it wasn’t until an hour or so later when it was our turn at the window that we found out. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an answer, or so he thought; but it seemed to come from behind him, away down the path further back in the Forest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “In a week or so, we can see how things are going,” my father continued. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z That’s when the rope dropped from the sky, a thick length of rope with knots tied into it, expertly, every foot or so. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z After a dozen or so starts, the horse was bouncing all over the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The black cat sprang out of Belet's arms and onto the marble stairs to join his half a dozen or so companions on the landing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Each man could stand only five minutes or so of this cold and perilous job at a time. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I look around at the dozen or so people enjoying themselves in vaguely psychedelic stupors. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z For a decade or so, Marsh and Cope’s mutual dislike primarily took the form of quiet sniping, but in 1877 it erupted into grandiose dimensions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He moved away impatiently to the adjacent wall, a distance of seven feet or so, and leaned against it, arms crossed, looking from Briony to Cecilia. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “With her cats. There’s always a cat or so around. People say she’s a witch.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Patuxet was one of the dozen or so settlements in what is now eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island that comprised the Wampanoag confederation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the top, Sophie grabbed the remaining leaflets—one hundred or so—and flung them high into the air over the balcony railing. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "Either that or find a tree. But let's give him another half an hour or so. Then we'll take cover," I answer. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Bull was actually an inch or so taller than the pirate, but it didn’t help him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There was very little traffic now: a car every minute or so, no more than that. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This woman, with whom she sometimes spent an hour or so in the afternoons, and her landlady, were the only people she saw. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z For instance, “Q” is a rare letter in ordinary messages, but it makes up a whopping ten percent or so of this one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z After a certain age, maybe nine or so, Bengali girls are never seen naked by others, not even by friends. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We take this for a mile or so, and Finch has turned up the music and is singing along. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Harry asked Ron as a dozen or so girls walked past them, sniggering and staring at Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z So the witch was fine—or so the story goes—most of the time because everyone else lived on the other side of the river and didn’t bother her. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Then it took her a day or so to look through them all. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Seconds later, or so it seemed to Harry, he was awakened by what sounded like cannon fire as the door burst open. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The thousands of miles I had crossed were nothing compared to the last mile or so between the docks and the town of the Tang people, Chinatown. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time I got solitary was a month or so after I’d gotten here, and at first I was like, “Is this all you’ve got?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We didn’t see an awful lot of Charles for the next thirty-six hours or so. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her parents were dead—or so the woman said, and why would she lie? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Up until then I had never been particularly disturbed about seeing a corpse—even when I’d have to sit for an hour or so at a funeral parlor when some relative had died. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z White’s desperate search for a witness soon led him to Henry Grammer, the rodeo star and gunslinging bootlegger who, every year or so, seemed to draw down on another man because of a dispute. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Looking up the slope of the southern face of Kostor, on which we had been infinitesimally crawling all day, I saw a queer rock-formation a quarter mile or so above the road, a castle-like outcropping. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a big room, with about...I dunno, maybe twenty or so beds and cribs.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He got a few issues of the Chicago Defender every month or so from his cousin Lewis, who sometimes worked as a porter on trains from Chicago to Dallas and was something of a radical. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Momma decided Bailey couldn’t accompany us, since we had to use the pass during a set time, but that he would follow within a month or so when outstanding bills were paid. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two summers later, a dozen or so blacks struck a deal to work on a lumber dock. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z First to suffer, or so the sketchy evidence suggests, were the Hopi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Directly in front of them, a row of twenty or so darkly tinged windows stretched across the compound horizontally, one after the other. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She had a little money in her account, enough to keep her modestly for a year or so. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But something was missing, and he wasn’t ashamed to admit that the only way to remember what it was like was to pull out that worn video every month or so. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had meant—or so word at church had it—to build an elaborate bungalow of the sort his father had built years before on the family farm at Island Center. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I suppose there’d be a dozen or so, sir. About normal.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Lelia removed the dozen or so shoeboxes of pictures from the top shelves and lined them up between us on the white shag carpet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “You had lunch with us here just a day or so ago, didn’t you, Father?” he asked meaningfully. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I am delighted to say that I am ahead of schedule on the dishes and I will continue to wash them in an hour or so. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Please, Mola? I promise it won’t take more than a half hour or so, but we have to go now. I’m worried I might be too late already.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Helena goes to the window, and after a minute or so, calls, “She’s gone!” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was already a man with two families, his attention divided between me and the girls and his 200,000 or so South Side constituents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When Daedalus died in the Battle of the Labyrinth, the entire maze had collapsed—or so Annabeth believed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The test continues for the next thirty minutes or so. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I was only gone for an hour or so, and she just drove right up and stole my chickens, and no one stopped her. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Glumly, I watch my grandmother and about one hundred other people from forty or so different countries line up to become citizens. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In Officer Delinko’s experience, kids weren’t usually so persistent, or so daring. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “There must be a village a league or so ahead,” Bear cautioned. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Mother gave her cool sponge baths every hour or so. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They had ears everywhere in the city, or so we’d been led to believe. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This was the thought I returned to a year or so later, when the drumbeat truly got loud, when the pressure on both of us felt immense. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He couldn’t believe how heavy the boy was, and it took only ten feet or so for Thomas to realize that it just wasn’t going to work. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Landed here to found New World about twenty years ago or so. But there were aliens here. The Spackle. And they...didn’t want us.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “But you’ll probably be hearing from us soon. We may be at war with the Russians in another year or so. You fellows will certainly be needed again then.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This one I just finished for the tenth or so time—Little Women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A day or so later he would often realize that his theory did not work and return to experiments, until boredom generated a new attack on theory. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z They came to Mars and now, first thing, or so they said, they were going fishing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z My problems began when they returned, an hour or so later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was that the wives stayed in the villages, seeing their husbands every five years or so if they were lucky—though sometimes there were longer separations, as with Mother and Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z No one saw me, or so I believed—except the foxes on the shoulders of some of the ladies. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Takes me another hour or so to locate a keg that looks the right size. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the half dozen or so times he’d gone to a game with Papi and Carlos, sitting in the bleachers, worrying, shouting, eating, thrilled to be there with his father and big brother. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He saw tents there, and military vehicles, and a dozen or so police officers and soldiers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Much more of her radical doings and she would have been blacklisted, or so the rumors went. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z These occasional meetings went on for a month or so. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s a long car ride between Bridgeport and North River Heights, and eventually we only got together every couple of months or so. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But the sun, which had perhaps two hours or so to go before it set, was in his eyes and he couldn't make things out distinctly. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “Troops of them in the air, armed and shining. They haven’t been so common in the last years, though in my grandfather’s time they passed through this world often, or so he used to say.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “All right If you come up early tomorrow morning, I’ll have something for you to do to earn a shilling or so.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She would keep him hidden on defense for the first half or so of a game, then switch him to offense as the other team tired. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I walk off the porch onto the grass, so as not to overhear her conversation, or so I tell myself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The race would never finish in finite time—or so they thought. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Finally we escape from the mall and I've got enough new clothes to last me, as Grim points out, a week or so. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Pushed against one wall were various bits of furniture heaved out over the past year or so—broken tables, old fridges, that kind of thing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The first day or so I was content simply to sleep away some of the accumulated exhaustion of the winter. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke a stronger light out of the staff, for the world was utterly black, and then leaning on the staff he went on, stumbling and halting, half a mile or so inland. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They asked what he’d done with the $7,500 or so his records showed he’d earned since getting back from his mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What I ended up grabbing was a round, mossy-topped rock—or so I thought, until the rock started speaking. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A young girl of thirteen or so looked around nervously and scurried inside, closing the door softly behind her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the days after Christmas, with just a week or so left in the Iowa campaign, it seemed as if half of the South Side had migrated to the deep freeze of Des Moines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z During the last year or so, in the New York Times, Arnold Toynbee used the word “bleached” in describing the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She scrutinized him with a mixture of pleasure and pity; or so he read her expression. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I watched them go by, a few hundred or so, their heads bent low and every one of them silent as the grave. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z At this point both benches emptied and converged, and the twenty or so fans watching joined the fray. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran a hundred yards or so along the shore before turning in. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Nicole put up a happy front for a second or so, until her hand went to her hip to grab her phone. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Also, every ten seconds or so, Chestnutt wanted me to stop so she could take notes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I'd just get on the subway and dash from train to train a dozen or so times, and before long I'd lose them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The door was opened by a pleasant-featured woman of forty or so who looked North African. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A month or so later my mother defied my father and secretly took us to the local Full Gospel Church, where we were baptized. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Park stayed awake for another hour or so, fueled by Coke and hurt feelings. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z After another half mile or so, we emerged in a cavern the size of a Super Bowl stadium. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A hundred or so people slowly filed into the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They did not even breathe, or so it seemed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is. This has bin Eb’s home since he was a lad of ten or so.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Various skits were performed, and I gave a reading of a dozen or so verses from Tennyson’s “In Memoriam.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z With Richardson’s curve and the simplest extrapolation for the future growth of the human population, the two curves do not intersect until the thirtieth century or so, and Doomsday is deferred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow’s a Saturday, but if I wasn’t home in an hour or so, I’d be getting a hell of a What time do you call this? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He stood head and shoulders taller than me, twenty or so, tall and blond. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A year or so earlier these same girls had been porcelain figurines, gingerly dipping their toes into the disinfectant basin at the public pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Friends for life, or so it must have seemed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After a minute or so she called, “He’s gone!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I moved through the shots in around-the-world fashion, starting in the right corner and moving to my left, taking a shot every yard or so, until I ended up in the opposite corner. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z After an exhausting hour or so of this melodrama, v.L. took a break and sauntered over to have a chat with me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Suzume was there for about two years. I was there for a year and a half, and Lee was there for a year or so.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The sign above the business, which was one of the dozen or so boxes of storefronts along Old Mill Boulevard, was an enormous, perfectly round pizza with a grinning face painted on it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The king approved, but a week or so before the visit I received a letter from him saying I must come alone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But how could they know, they’ve never been in the middle of a war . . . or so I thought. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I walked a few steps farther so that I was about a hundred yards or so away, and then I spun around. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z In a week or so, everything would be sleeping under a thick comforter, but for now, the cabin stood out in all its sturdy homemade ugliness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Like, that’s seriously all I remember about it. It was, you know, last September or so.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Thinking of Jackson and the things he used to smuggle me makes me think of my mother—the silence from the postmaster every time Jackson came calling, or so I thought. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z After five minutes or so, Boy21 turns and says, “Is it okay if I call you by your Earthling name—Finley?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Zooey watched her for a full minute or so, then said, not precisely kindly, but without importuning, “Franny. What about it? Shall I try to get Buddy on the phone?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “By river it’s forty miles or so. Could take more than two days depending on if you’re on a barge or a billow- boat, and what the weather’s like.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The hovercraft appears a hundred yards or so away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The deer, whose name was The Deer, was born about a year or so ago and grew up freely in the woods. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shin fiddled with its dial nearly every morning, switching among the dozen or so Korean-language stations that broadcast daily into North Korea and northeast China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When I asked him where he’d been, his explanations were either so vague or so improbable that I stopped asking. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He pressed the shutter button and took a dozen or so shots. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Seventy percent of the Eastern European Jews who came through Ellis Island in the thirty years or so before the First World War had some kind of occupational skill. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If it were distributed evenly throughout the stratosphere, it would form a layer just one eighth of an inch or so thick. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For the first ten or so minutes we spent walking around the store, Zu kept turning to look at our linked hands, as if she couldn’t believe what she was seeing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe it was still raining, that it was the same day, that we had only been talking for an hour or so. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z An hour or so later the dog vomited, went into convulsions, and died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Must have been just after my dad—so, I guess three years or so.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Beneath the peninsular fort of La Cite, across the river from the old city, there are rooms of bandages, rooms of ammunition, even an underground hospital, or so it is believed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z We had traveled for about an hour or so and then the train started to slow down. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They stumbled along in the dark winding gully for a long time, or so it seemed to the tired feet of Frodo and Sam. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sand flowed out, and the balloon lifted gently to clear the tower by six feet or so. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And almost every time she did, from age six or so on, she ran to her friend Yuko’s house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z "The Lord of Light would hold our city walls against a million Dothraki, or so the red priests promise . . . yet why take chances, when their friendship comes so cheap?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Every minute or so, Tucker would get up and walk around to the other side of the pagoda. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the room of a neat girl with nothing to hide, or so it seemed until I found a hatbox just inside the closet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The lake lay before him, twenty or so feet below, and he had not seen it this way since he had come in with the plane. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z A dozen or so adults were among the pews, several of them bearing pairs of small-size rubbers, soles up, in their laps. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He ran the mile or so back home, and was drenched by the time he got into the apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z A dozen or so demons with blood-spattered jaws peered through the entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Once every week or so she would visit, and while he sipped his apricot brandy they would talk about religion. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry, it’s only five miles or so, and we’re in no hurry.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z From the exterior, the ranch home did not appear large enough for the dozen or so residents, and I quickly learned that it wasn’t. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But they didn’t have to be reincarnated, or so Chitrigupta had said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The non-Hasidic students talked about it for a day or so, and then forgot it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Like so many other inmates, he had a dozen or so girlie pinups on his wall, but his were conspicuously clothed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is no doubt the quiet of these surroundings that has enabled me to ponder all the more thoroughly these thoughts which have entered my mind over this past half- hour or so. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I am going home for a holiday. But first I go to Lausanne to stay with a sister for a week or so.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I will be in kemmer in a day or so, and all strains will increase. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z No one is here, or so it seems. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A week or so after the ceremony, Didu interrupts my cousin's study session. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She always makes me tell the same story over a week or so later to see if I slip up on any details. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I'm used to holding a glass or can and raising it to my mouth every thirty seconds or so. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I didn’t. They sent word by carrier to the Council, but only an hour or so before they arrived. You’ve spoken to them?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She had been compiling it without my knowledge for the last year or so we were together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So he would open a bank account, and a week or so later, he would withdraw all the money from a teller inside the bank while Mom withdrew the same amount from the drive-through window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We sat on the log, and I made sure there was a foot or so of space between us. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t need to guess who was going to be tied to it in an hour or so. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A week or so after Joe got home from the military, a tall, skinny neighborhood kid named Ivy walked up to him with a knife and asked if he wanted to start something. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The fifty or so theater seats here in the Show Room are almost entirely empty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Every ten seconds or so, a new sheet of cold seawater comes flowing in. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He found a minute or so of rest this way, but it was a position he could not maintain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “He’ll be here to fetch you in a hour or so,” she said brightly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z They was willy-nilly throwing punches and kicks and swinging sticks and wasn’t hitting me with but one or so blows outta ten. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z |
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