Example sentences of "years [coord] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has assembled a team of scientists , engineers and railway experts to build a modern steam engine that will take advantage of all the advances in technology in the 30 years or so since the last US steam engines were built . |
| 2 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |
| 3 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 11 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 12 | Fifteen years or so after these events of my early life in secondary school it is hard to remember now how important all these things were . |
| 13 | Snow associated the occurrence of cholera with the source of the victim 's water supply 20 years or so before bacteria were identified as causing the disease . |
| 14 | Psychoanalysts themselves undergo five sessions of analysis a week for five years or so before they can practise . |
| 15 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 16 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 17 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 18 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 19 | It will need renewing every seven years or so as it is not long-lived . |
| 20 | Most of these were ‘ coppiced ’ — cut to the ground every 20 years or so and then allowed to regenerate . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 24 | Your August issue was the first of your magazines I have read in three years or so and what an improvement ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | for fifteen years or so and rusted solid , |