Definition of "and so" []

• Subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors) (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There was some debate about how to quantify both sides, and what to do in the case of a Jewish Texan, and so Slim was forced to modify his wager into the more readily visible “hats versus bareheads.”"
• "If you succeed and help this ceremony of joining to go off without a hitch, if the null-field device is installed, and so on, I will be given a slap on the wrist by Starfleet for my actions, but lauded publicly as the savior of this world."
• "Mercier's home was a huge white place with landscaped gardens and so many rooms that a search party would have to be organized if anybody got lost on the way to the bathroom."