Example sentences of "year or so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 2 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 3 | Rosengarten was at McGill for Leonard 's first two years or so , and they ran the Fraternity together . |
| 4 | The additional shine will make the nameplate that much easier for your grandchildren to recognise when they see the piece on Antiques Roadshow in a hundred years or so ! |
| 5 | This clinging to authority has , in my experience , become noticeable in graduate students and young academics in the past ten years or so . |
| 6 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 7 | FOR THE last 10 years or so the British insurance community has attracted an enormous amount of takeover activity . |
| 8 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 9 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 10 | After my marriage I used to go to Africa every one and a half years or so . |
| 11 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 12 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 13 | A house of this size could take two men six months to thatch , and it might - need to be re-ridged every five years or so and re-thatched every twenty to thirty years . |
| 14 | But the trouble with climate modification of the sort imposed by the greenhouse effect is that it does not move naturally to a new , warmer status quo which will remain undisturbed for the next thousand years or so . |
| 15 | If one had to make a guess , it is that within another ten years or so ‘ environment ’ will have become a somewhat passé term , rather as ‘ ecological ’ has , simply because of its insufficiency as a generic description ; a term which links the preservation of rural landscapes in Europe to the fate of millions in Bangladesh obviously has problems of definition . |
| 16 | He predicts that , within two years or so , people will be able to buy it for the price of a cheap piano . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the price of laser-printers halves every four years or so , and their resolution and speed continue to improve . |
| 18 | The meteorites that are fragments of asteroids are sprightly youngsters of a mere 4.6 billion years or so . |
| 19 | Yet , for another 15 years or so , people in Wall Street and the City of London still told visitors that hostile bids were taboo . |
| 20 | So the Nikkei has two years or so to rise the 20–50% needed to bail the issuers out . |
| 21 | Despite the changes of the past ten years or so , there is little sign in France of an active takeover market . |
| 22 | The way in which wealthy Englishmen have dealt with their capital has changed greatly in the last hundred years or so . |
| 23 | After all , he was fifteen years or so younger than I , and presumably still intellectually immature , despite all his literary and philosophical name-dropping . |
| 24 | Until the last hundred years or so , the purchasing value of coins was closely related to the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from . |
| 25 | One moment she is here , the next she is thirty years or so ago , and then again , she is a young girl and can not remember who I am . |
| 26 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 27 | This method has been used with success in the study of the coinage of archaic and classical Greece , where , for instance , the evidence of several large hoards has enabled a fairly detailed sequence and chronology to be established for the earliest Greek silver coins , made in the fifty years or so before about 475BC . |
| 28 | Lawrence James 's The Iron Duke adds yet another to the long list of books written by various authors about the 1st Duke over the last 150 years or so . |
| 29 | After 20 years or so thinning can begin ; the excess trees are used as timber and the remainder form a naturally spaced woodland . |
| 30 | Over the past 15 years or so it has spread through Russia and then to Western Europe . |