Example sentences of "the [num] years [coord] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has assembled a team of scientists , engineers and railway experts to build a modern steam engine that will take advantage of all the advances in technology in the 30 years or so since the last US steam engines were built . |
| 2 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 3 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 4 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 5 | During the hundred years or so after Constantine Christianity could be a passport to office , power , and wealth . |
| 6 | The second is a historical observation , that during the thirty years or so since the first observations of single cell response properties in the visual systems of mammals , our understanding of how the visual system works has been driven as much by theoretical developments in the psychology of perception as the other way round . |