Example sentences of "year [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 4 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 6 | For the first years or so of the war , oil and gas operations , setting aside the damaged Gulf terminals and the dislocation of the northern pipeline , continued very much as during the previous decade . |
| 7 | It is as well that there is an interval of twenty-five years or so between the baking of these pies — I imagine it will take the Denby Dalers this amount of time to recover . |
| 8 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 9 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 10 | However , it is possible that the fluid seen during that visitation once saturated the body but had leaked from the cadaver during the intervening 250 years and thence from the coffin , owing to seasonal fluctuations in the humidity within the vault . |
| 11 | That was written twenty years and more before the trial and acquittal of D. H. Lawrence 's Lady Chatterley 's Lover in October–November 1960 — an event that made more headlines than practical difference , though it marks a convenient turning-point in British official attitudes to literary obscenity . |
| 12 | Dean Patterson says the use of solar energy is important to all people around the world … and he says we will say electric cars on the road within five years but even with the sun shining … they 're are breakdowns … punctures and problems … a driver says they 've had a stone fly up and brake the chain but they 'll get going again |
| 13 | Paul appears on the scene within a year or so of the Crucifixion . |
| 14 | For the first year or so of the war , oil and gas operations in the Gulf , leaving aside the damaged Iraqi terminals , continued very much as in the 1970s . |
| 15 | We have had several exchanges in the House in the past year or so on the number of people sleeping rough . |
| 16 | He had a fishing boat of his own and after a year or so on the island had adapted to the life as a native . |
| 17 | I think it was erm a bit of a ploy that erm I was extra to establishment really and I was only temporary , on the temporary staff until erm well a year or so after the war when all these things were sort of sorted out and erm I was on the permanent |
| 18 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 19 | The elections for it were promised for the following year and already by the time of the secretary of state 's television broadcast in early September both the NIO and the Ulster political parties were evolving respective plans . |
| 20 | John Elsley spoke for many booksellers up and down the country : ‘ Unemployment and the fear of unemployment have been a major adverse factor , during the year and particularly in the period up to Christmas . ’ |
| 21 | Winner of the Swan European Regatta in 1989 and a highly creditable 6th overall in the competitive Swan World Cup this year and consistently in the frame in UK waters , this well maintained 40-footer is as docile on Channel cruises as she is dynamic on the race course . |