Example sentences of "year or more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 2 | The former are offences punishable by imprisonment for five years or more while the latter are those punishable by a term of two months to five years . |
| 3 | To start again from scratch in the USA would mean that it would be five years or more before he had any hope of receiving his doctorate , but in England , with his early research experience behind him , he could complete the degree sooner . |
| 4 | This raised the limits before which tax on wealth transfers were paid , and abolished taxes on gifts made ten years or more before someone died . |
| 5 | They enjoy earthworms , shrimps and pellet food and will live for a good ten years or more if they 're cared for correctly . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , the secretary of state or the local planning authority can vary the period , and there is no bar to the renewal of permission after that period has elapsed ( whether it be five years or more or less ) . |
| 8 | I do n't quite know what 's , what happened , because I remember very well amending these details the last time it came to policy and resources , and that was agreed , because the changes you have made use the working , wording of the Thamesdown scheme , it seems to me far better , erm , as you have moved it , because er , very many people who are elderly , who are sixty-nine years or more or less do n't need any supervision at all . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |
| 13 | The immense amount of solar energy which growing plants capture by photosynthesis and convert into chemical energy — some 30 BTOE per year or more than four times the world 's yearly total commercial energy consumption — is a renewable source of energy which offers great potential . |
| 14 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
| 15 | If further bleeding occurs a year or more after your periods have stopped , you should always consult your doctor . |
| 16 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 17 | The numbers of consultations , home visits and night calls reported for those in such homes for a year or more before they died are compared with those for others under the care of a general practitioner in Table 4 . |
| 18 | An intelligent player , who read the game well , Peter was a considerable asset in the top flight but , in only the third match of 1972–73 , he had the misfortune to break his leg in a tackle with his former Liverpool team-mate Tommy Smith , and it was a year or more before he was really able to play properly again , and that represented a real loss to the club . |
| 19 | It was a year or more since they had met , but he ran out of the shop and clung to her elbow . |
| 20 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | The other factor that was related to assessments of quality of life was whether people had been in a residential home for a year or more or for a shorter time . |