Example sentences of "year or [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | While there was no record of the outcome in eight of the cases , seventeen men received prison sentences of two years or more and one other was sent to a psychiatric hospital . |
| 2 | Investors should pick a fund with a good track record over ten years or more and to receive income gross look for one managed from an overseas centre such as Dublin or Luxembourg . |
| 3 | Thirty-eight per cent of the workforce had been in the company for 32 years or more and 55 per cent of them were 50 years old or over ( RENFE 1984b : 160–1 ) . |
| 4 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |
| 7 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 8 | Your August issue was the first of your magazines I have read in three years or so and what an improvement ! |
| 9 | History of this sort , which offers to explain the relations between properties of societies , has been enormously successful in the past thirty years or so and provides a clear conception of how the underlying interest of holism can guide social enquiry . |
| 10 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 11 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 12 | They argue that major innovations in products , or production techniques , are bunched together every fifty years or so and , when they occur , they have pervasive effects , generating a long boom which eventually peters out and turns into a slump . |
| 13 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 14 | for fifteen years or so and rusted solid , |
| 15 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 16 | I am not due home for another year or so and I hope that by then a little more of the Peruvian culture and faith will have rubbed off on me . |
| 17 | Basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting Sun 's ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share . |
| 18 | Both Salomon Brothers Inc and more importantly Goldman Sachs & Co have moved Sun Microsystems Inc shares off their recommended buy lists : basically Goldman thinks Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Intel Corp 's Pentium are going to be more than Sun can handle , hurting its ability to improve earnings on a sustained basis over the next year or so and impeding its gains in market share ; Goldman believes Sun 's financial model may need to change more quickly than the company can realise ; the long-term judgment is based on Goldman 's view of Sun 's business as 80% to 85% client side where it thinks Windows , especially NT , will dominate in client-server systems , even where high-performance client products are needed . |
| 19 | Well , she 's been having an affair with this bloke for the last year or so and then out of the blue he turned round and … |
| 20 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
| 21 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 22 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 23 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 24 | He is a Whip who receives about £35,000 a year or more and he does not have to worry about the daily necessities of life . |
| 25 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |