Example sentences of "[adj] year or [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent DES survey , for example , shows that little more than 400 further education teachers were seconded by their local authority to courses of one year or more in January 1981 . |
| 2 | During the oral phases , extending over the first year or so of life , his main concerns involve activities like sucking , swallowing and biting ; and the nature of his oral experiences during this period will have considerable repercussions in the long as well as the short term . |
| 3 | Alec Reid had treated several cases of polio during my first year or so in Koraloona , but there were never any signs of an epidemic . |
| 4 | Sun Microsystems Inc has been under withering fire for the past year or so from companies seduced into trying to build machines compatible with Sun 's own — and then finding that the company artfully withholds all the best bits for itself . |
| 5 | Over the next year or so after August 1977 , the concessions granted to the miners were gradually revoked . |