Example sentences of "last [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Printers and typesetting houses have been embracing new methods for the last 15 years or so and now rely entirely upon them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( Indeed , it is only within the last thirty years or so that the skyscraper has arrived in Milan ) . |