Example sentences of "or [adj] year [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for about five or six years till the house goes up and then . |
| 2 | Rod , yes I agree with Don , I think if you look at er what the work has gone in er in the fifth year for the last two or three years and the way that subject teachers are now approaching ranks of achievement I do n't see yes it 's . |
| 3 | Because the average age at which cows begin to show signs of BSE is four to five years , it was estimated that the disease would start to die out four or five years after the source of infection was removed . |
| 4 | Specific schemes differ in their elements : for some final salary may be the best of the last three or five years or the average , or may be based on earnings as opposed to salary . |
| 5 | Younger first time buyers would find such a scheme an unnecessary burden since , presuming that they retired at the standard age , they would have to continue paying their mortgage for 30 or 40 years before the pension plan matured to pay it off . |
| 6 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 7 | In the mid-1990s , object-oriented programming promises to bring the next irresistible revolution , but until that happens , no-one should be too surprised if the mass of desktop users splits into two camps , one that goes down the Unix-with-everything route , the other that decides as a matter of policy to remain in the ‘ do n't know ’ came , judging MS-DOS with a touch of Windows here and there to be good enough for the next three or four years until the picture of the future becomes a bit clearer . |
| 8 | The degree of BMus requires three years of study , or four years if a student reads for honours . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've run the distance indoors for six or seven years and the object of the race was to hurt myself , ’ said the 28-year-old Lucozade Motherwell club member . |