Example sentences of "years [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will take 20 years or longer to sort out so much confusion and , musically , what will be left ? |
| 2 | It was not until ten years or more had passed that the disastrous side-effects on ruck and maul of the abolition of the old ‘ play the ball with a foot after a tackle ’ law began fully to be felt . |
| 3 | This process may take 20 years or more to complete , and is more pronounced if natural dyes have been used or if the rug has been exposed to direct sunlight . |
| 4 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 5 | The applicant must be a freeholder or have a lease with five years or more to run , and will be required to sign a form to say that she intends to live in that dwelling as her only or main place of residence for at least five years after the work has been completed . |
| 6 | That is understandable , given the desire of those agencies to ascertain that the 3 years or more spent in higher education lead to some definite outcome . |
| 7 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 8 | a fixed-term contract for two years or more entered into from 6 December 1965 can include an agreement in writing by you to exclude any claim that you may have for state redundancy pay , where your dismissal consists only of the expiry of the term . |
| 9 | After 20 years or so thinning can begin ; the excess trees are used as timber and the remainder form a naturally spaced woodland . |
| 10 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 11 | Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery . |
| 12 | After this , progress was slow , though most women compositors of seven years or so experience could apparently expect to move up to 16s : roughly half the male wage of the time . |
| 13 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 14 | Certainly a reading of the soil conservation literature through seventy years or so exposes the lack of substantive progress in the identification of the problems and even the technical solutions ( with the possible exception of the demonstration of the importance of rainsplash in soil erosion ) . |
| 15 | First , the pace of change and economic developments during the last twenty years or so have altered the landscapes he described very considerably . |
| 16 | Every five years or so have a glorious clear out and throw all the old |
| 17 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 18 | In contrast to this extensions within the last ten years or so have all been done in cheaper , light weight breeze blocks . |
| 19 | Extending the term by five years or so means you have to pay out less each month . |
| 20 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |
| 21 | Five years or so passed and the boy even went to school there . |
| 22 | So the Nikkei has two years or so to rise the 20–50% needed to bail the issuers out . |
| 23 | As the moving convection cell carries basaltic crust away from the ridge , slowly but continuously , the magnetic reversals taking place every few hundred thousand years or so leave their imprints on the newly-formed rocks emerging from the ridge ; as every reversal occurs , so it is recorded in the formation of reversely-magnetized strips on each side of the ridge . |
| 24 | But research over the past 40 years or so has revealed some great surprises in the natural world . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that their slow decline in the last I00 million years or so has been caused by the commensurate rise in diversity of filter-feeding bivalve molluscs , which ousted them from their former habitats . |
| 26 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 27 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 28 | Cubby has been associated with the Dundee Club for over 30 years , and for the past 15 years or so has been football representative on the Regional Committee of the Sports Association/Staff Club . |
| 29 | One of the dominant themes in the redistribution of population in the Western World over the past twenty years or so has been the dispersal of population from large cities to medium and small-sized settlements . |
| 30 | Much RE writing in the past 20 years or so has centred on the raising of ultimate questions , and there has also been an insistence on developing in pupils skills of understanding and of handling these questions . |