Example sentences of "years [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Painting nearly always fifty years or even a hundred behind the times . |
| 2 | One trip on acid can lead to flashbacks years or even decades later . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They may concede that there may be frictional teething problems lasting a few years or even a few decades but argue that these are overcome eventually . |
| 5 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 6 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 7 | A molecule of CFC 11 or CFC 12 is 12,000 — 16,000 times more effective as an infrared absorbing gas than carbon dioxide , and CFC molecules remain in the atmosphere for 65–90 years or even longer . |
| 8 | Such an event might be theft , fire , illness or even death ; within the next year , the next many years or even within a lifetime . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It could take three years or even more , depending on the exact nature of the change and , of course , the priority given to it . |
| 11 | We must ensure that hospitals have well thought out discharge plans for every individual , whether he or she has been in hospital for five years or just five days , and that follow-up and after-care services are available for a lifetime if necessary . |
| 12 | And did you find that the text book they had to use , changed through the years or just the |
| 13 | But facing up to conflicts and difficulties throughout marriage , be it in the early years or later , is the way of growth and strength . |
| 14 | Many mothers do not even try to toilet train their children until the age of 2 years or later while others deliberately train their child during the first year of life ( Douglas and Richman 1984 ) . |
| 15 | Although Peter my friend 's he , he did that but er it did n't come to much , they 'd 've saved it or something , one job , cos he was made redundant about three times and er one , one place he was at they 're supposed to have kept it and paying him it now but I do n't know how they came about that bu because actually they we played him a dirty trick , they persuaded him to leave his job and then about nine years or probably less than that later you know and he was out again , redundant and , you know , I think they felt a bit guilty but he only gets about five pounds a week from , off that one , which is |
| 16 | Fedorov is Russian of course , and has lived here ten years or thereabouts ; wife , also Russian , died about two years ago . |
| 17 | Come to think of it , not much happened to Anna from the time Simon left us till she died — fifteen years or nearly . |
| 18 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 19 | Mothers of handicapped children can extend this to 10 years or longer . |
| 20 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 21 | It will take 20 years or longer to sort out so much confusion and , musically , what will be left ? |
| 22 | If the preceding birth interval is five ( in some cases even four ) years or longer , the chances of surviving infancy become poorer again , though considerably better than in the case of short spaced infants ( less than two years ) . |
| 23 | On the other hand , infant mortality considerably decreases if spacing is four years or longer in the regions where overall levels of infant mortality are high , but the beneficial impact of four-year or longer spacing seems to weaken with the reduction of general infant mortality ; it is almost negligible in the Western Hemisphere ( see Fig. 7 ) . |
| 24 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 25 | Significantly increased incidence was also observed in women seven years or longer after start of cimetidine use ( RR=4.7 ; 95% CI : 1.7–10.3 ) . |
| 26 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 27 | If you 've worked for one employer for two years or more before leaving to have your baby , you may be entitled to maternity pay . |
| 28 | There are also professionally-applied textured coatings which are sprayed on , and should last for 10 years or more . |
| 29 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 30 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |