Example sentences of "[adj] year [conj] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has assembled a team of scientists , engineers and railway experts to build a modern steam engine that will take advantage of all the advances in technology in the 30 years or so since the last US steam engines were built . |
| 2 | In Shetland during the last forty years or so when the seine-net fishing for haddock and whiting was profitable , most of the gulls — mainly herring and black-backed gulls in the summer , augmented by glaucous gulls from the north in winter — got a good living by attending the fishing-boats . |
| 3 | If the haemoglobin remains normal after a year it should then be checked after a further year or sooner if the patient becomes symptomatic . |
| 4 | And I was chairman of it for about six years or so before the council broke up . |
| 5 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 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 | The former are offences punishable by imprisonment for five years or more while the latter are those punishable by a term of two months to five years . |
| 8 | In the 1930s , twenty years or so before the hospital bed reductions began , a period of economic standstill and high unemployment drove many single , unemployed , poorly educated young men from , mainly , depressed areas in the north of England , Scotland and Ireland to more prosperous areas in the south in the vain hope of finding work . |
| 9 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 10 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |
| 11 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |
| 12 | erm and er , you know as you 're exercising your discretion your Lordship there 's the points in the white book , my Lord in the interim it would be the societies submission that there are three reasons why during the time that it may take to get any guidance from the European court , in the interim , the application of the bi-laws and in particular the provisions of the Act nineteen eighty two should be maintained and er given er their force , because clearly my Lord if there is to be a reference to the European court , matters will take some two years or so before the European court will give it 's ruling that I think would be common ground with my learned friend |
| 13 | I 'd er at been at Newark till then for about four years or so and the er slump had come about and they were sacked by the hundreds , including myself . |
| 14 | It has only been in the last year or so that the Government has started to grapple with major areas of social policy like education and housing . |
| 15 | Around 1204 , however , the two quarrelled and Eustace became a fugitive : it is with his adventures in the next year or so that the biography , composed between 1223 and 1284 by an unknown poet from Picardy , is principally concerned . |
| 16 | But the second function is no less important — to consult all the representatives of the parishes on the way ahead , both in regard to the theme for next year as well as the needs to be met . |