Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [coord] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of the couple or family considering the costs and benefits of a future child , the explicit consideration of rates of discount is rather different in that children are perceived to be a positive asset from early on in life but particularly after fifteen years or so when they can work effectively on the farm ( and so replace costly paid labour at times of peak labour demand ) or as a wage labourer . |
| 2 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 3 | Lydia had been with them now for ten years or so and still persisted in calling her ‘ missus ’ . |
| 4 | Your August issue was the first of your magazines I have read in three years or so and what an improvement ! |
| 5 | Psychoanalysts themselves undergo five sessions of analysis a week for five years or so before they can practise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | for fifteen years or so and rusted solid , |