Example sentences of "year [coord] [adv] [that] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 4 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 5 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 6 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 7 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 8 | In the six years and more that she had been David 's wife , not once had she heard his voice raised in such dark anger . |
| 9 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 10 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 11 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 12 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ Since he became Prime Minister , Mr Major comes in about once a year but before that he was more of a regular . |