Example sentences of "years or [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 These are especially attractive to families with children aged 12 years or over .
19 51% of lone mothers with children aged 5 years or over were working compared with 70% of married mothers .
20 ‘ 15 ’ Passed as suitable only for exhibition to persons of 15 years or over .
21 We began our preparation just over a year ago when Father Tim announced that people of 15 years or over could apply to be confirmed .
22 Also , the demographic structure was gradually shifting towards a higher representation of older age-groups ( 12 per cent aged 65 years or over in 1951 , compared with 3.5 per cent in 1901 ) , and changes in household composition produced increasing numbers of elderly people living alone ( Wall 1982 ) .
23 It also affects loans secured on an older person 's ( 65 years or over ) home which are used to purchase a life annuity .
24 Scott and Johnson ( 1988 ) report that in 1980 8.5 per cent of the world 's population was aged 60 years or over ; by 2025 this is expected , if current trends persist , to increase to 13.7 per cent .
25 This trend is at its most extreme among the very elderly ( i.e. those aged 85 years or over ) when there are 250 females for every 100 males .
26 RULES OF ENTRY : Entrants must be 18 years or over and may submit only one entry .
27 Only 343 cases were diagnosed and reported in 1991 ( provisional data ) in men aged 15 years or over , fewer than in any of the preceding 10 years .
28 Two thirds of recognised seroconversions were in men aged 25 years or over , and the increase in sexually transmitted diseases was not confined to young men .
29 To be eligible , candidates should be aged 36 years or over and have worked in construction for a number of years at a senior level .
30 Even infants whose mothers were 40 years old or older had a better chance to survive infancy if their fathers were 25–39 years old than if they were 40 years or over .
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