Example sentences of "year [coord] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One trip on acid can lead to flashbacks years or even decades later . |
| 2 | The cause of death is frequently ambiguous and pinning it down to occupational environments , which may have been experienced years or even decades ago , is clearly no easy matter . |
| 3 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 4 | A woman who would never walk free in the sunshine , serving a life-sentence where today child murderers are punished by countable years or even months . |
| 5 | For the last 30 years or more Lilian Lijn has exercised a rare freedom in her choice of medium and materials . |
| 6 | But he did not isolate or identify the substance , and for 12 years or so con fined his work to the use of crude extracts in selective culture media . |
| 7 | For the past 10 years or so ME have made all their fleece garments from material mainly sourced form the Far East . |
| 8 | Like other fair-minded people , we wanted to see more help given to these parents and their children ; and it was plain that over the next ten years or so Parliament would be doing that , and our scheme would be one of the instruments used for that purpose . |
| 9 | They have not been under the same review process as pension funds where every three years or so managers are changing . |
| 10 | During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates . |
| 11 | The Dwarfs continue to mine the vein for several years and even talk of resettling the old hold . |
| 12 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 13 | After three years and approximately £2m of research and development , SeaChange 4 began shipping on March 31 . |
| 14 | Aycock has not shown for some years and so fans of her precisely-crafted contraptions have a great treat in store when her show opens at John Weber on 13 February . |
| 15 | What 's more , if you know at least nine other stamp collectors , you can join as a group member for even less — just £2.20 for two years and only £3.50 for five years ! |
| 16 | so , er we had it for about four years and then Arthur decide to have one of these last year . |
| 17 | I realised there was no going back — that pregnancy meant 18 years and then college … ’ |
| 18 | Macmillan 's exceptionally successful Mexican operation has been in place for years but now Mexico is everyone 's tip for the top — ‘ The most exciting country in the region , ’ says David Phillips of Linguaphone ; ‘ The biggest without doubt , ’ says David Stewart . |
| 19 | This technique is highly precise , to the year or even season of felling , if the sample is adequate . |
| 20 | a couple of these men will probably go pro soon and one or two will surely go to England — as defence have been a problem for Leeds the last year or so Wilko should take a look at |
| 21 | The STA delegate meeting of 1905 passed a resolution urging branches to ban any new women entrants to the trade , and over the next year or so Edinburgh became increasingly isolated as first Aberdeen , then Dundee and Perth succeeded in closing the trade to new women recruits ( there were far fewer women compositors in these towns anyway ) . |
| 22 | This pattern has been changing ; there is a tendency now for girls to keep their babies , and over the last year or so girls have been sent there for a variety of other reasons , but essentially so that they can be assessed on their ability to care for their child . |
| 23 | George himself has deservedly achieved the status of a guru , and a year or so back was made a part time professor of medical economics at the City University . |
| 24 | Overall , consumers save more than they borrow , though in the last year or so borrowing has accelerated more than saving . |
| 25 | Over the coming year or so X/Open will introduce a range of XPG profiles — the XPG portability guide is a subset of CAE — to cope with the volume of technology areas it now embraces ( there are 37 XPG specifications in total ) . |
| 26 | Normally , the world sees two or three major quakes above seven on the Richter Scale each year and recently experts detected a pattern showing really big earthquakes in the Tokyo region almost exactly every 70 years . |
| 27 | Erm , first the district did it and erm they did n't want it so then it was decided to have , to share it with county and that was a disaster too and they did so many cuts each a year and then county took it over . |
| 28 | Price Waterhouse has lifted the previous limit of a fortnight on the amount of unpaid leave in any one year and now staff can apply to take as much unpaid leave as they wish . |
| 29 | ‘ They sold their Beverly Hills home on Doheney Drive earlier this year and now Britt is pinning her hopes on becoming the new Jackie Collins in order to maintain the lifestyle she became used to after marrying Peter Sellers . |
| 30 | But the festival returned the next year and gradually Reading grew to tolerate the pop fans . |