Example sentences of "[prep] [art] last [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would probably be dark for the last half-mile or so of his walk home . |
| 2 | For the history of the Soviet people during the last twenty or so years machine-readable data files are crucial and Moissenko argues contemporary historians need to come to grips with them now . |
| 3 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 4 | In The Reversing Earth Warlow tried to prove that , during the last 13,000 or so years , the Earth has flipped over on its axis about five times . |
| 5 | Certainly nothing happened in my personal experience in the last six or so months to make me change my mind about Labour unelectability . |
| 6 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 7 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 8 | We live in a free market economy which has prospered considerably over the last ten or so years . |
| 9 | Routers have really revolutionised the trade and home woodworking sectors of the power tool market over the last 20 or so years . |