Example sentences of "[num ord] [num] years [coord] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 4 | It is absolutely clear and I want to make it clear that we may not be doing anything tomorrow or the next day , we 'll all be , we 'll all be try to understand and determine is how we will deal with the issues in as and if traffic develops over the next ten years or so and that strategy will then form the basis under which we will try to resist city area that we did not see there . |
| 5 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 6 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 7 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 8 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |