Example sentences of "[adj] year or [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's local councils charge £6-10 a ton to put solid waste in landfills : a price , say the commercial firms , that does not reflect capital investment or the sums that must be et aside to ensure a landfill is properly maintained during its 30 years or so of life . |
| 2 | This drop is largely irrelevant because the long incubation period of 10 years or more between HIV-1 infection and AIDS onset results in a complex relation between the time of HIV-1 infection diagnosis and AIDS incubation period . |
| 3 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 4 | He spent 4 years or so with QPR and starred in the FA Cup final in 1982 . |
| 5 | If approved for a baby , go on to waiting list to be ‘ matched ’ — may wait up to 3 years or more for placement |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Coal imports will double in Japan over the next twenty years or so with coal becoming second only to oil as an energy supplier , at about one-quarter of demand . |
| 10 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 11 | The damaging feature of oralism in the last hundred years or so in Great Britain has been its total rejection of any other method of educating deaf children . |
| 12 | For the last two years or so of Phillip 's life , Marje never visited him at home , according to friends . |
| 13 | ( Eligible liabilities are sterling deposits with two years or less to maturity held by UK residents , plus a number of other items . ) |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Over the next year or so after August 1977 , the concessions granted to the miners were gradually revoked . |