Example sentences of "year or [adv] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fife sentence prisoners are not the only ones serving long sentences ; Maidstone also contained 133 men serving sentences of 10 years or more when I visited . |
| 2 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 3 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 4 | In Shetland during the last forty years or so when the seine-net fishing for haddock and whiting was profitable , most of the gulls — mainly herring and black-backed gulls in the summer , augmented by glaucous gulls from the north in winter — got a good living by attending the fishing-boats . |
| 5 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 6 | She said — or rather I did , to her solicitors — that she would consider it again in a year or so when everyone was calmer . ’ |
| 7 | If he believes Diana and Andrew Morton 's book have brought the Crown into disrepute what will happen in a year or so when the notorious biographer Kitty Kelley delivers her tome on his life ? |
| 8 | If the answer is no , does the same apply to other people in your own school using the materials in a year or so when all the participants might be unknown to them ? |
| 9 | Although their protection was n't evident Millie was conscious of it , and there were times when she felt as hemmed in as she had done during that tortured year or more when guarded by the sisters . |
| 10 | ‘ Mme Verard was in her hundredth year or more when I was fortunate enough to take in mine the hand that proved the loyal instrument of God 's will for this pagan place and its people . |