Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
| 2 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 3 | Explaining a new policy drift which will respect local political will at the expense of new development , Mr Patten said : ‘ Over the next 10 or 12 years we are going to need substantial numbers of new houses . |
| 4 | slag on it maybe er five or six years you get a heavy dose of slag . |
| 5 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 6 | The picture which has emerged over the last five or six years it is very different than the one painted above . |
| 7 | We , we , it 's fairly clear that the manual gears is virtually , within five or six years it 's going to be very , very , very small . |
| 8 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
| 9 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
| 10 | Er the unemployment rate while still relatively in relation to national and even er regional levels , has increased very rapidly over the last few years and in fact over the last two or three years we 've had something like three thousand jobs lost i in Harrogate . |
| 11 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
| 12 | Fortunately my mother was able to return to teaching and to complete the final two or three years which qualified her for a pension of her own . |
| 13 | Lipcon understands long-term as being two or three years which is what he figures it took the Mac to amass the necessary apps and catch on . |
| 14 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
| 15 | In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones . |
| 16 | But apparently smut has never been far away , and in recent years when some crops have been grown from home saved seed which has had no treatment , after two or three years it has appeared with devastating effect . |
| 17 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 18 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 19 | Yeah having worked in newspapers er for two or three years I n I now know that the er what you look , well I did n't look for cos I was on the business page , what people look for is a good story and it does n't |
| 20 | And this last two or three years I 've s I 've become to realize that how important acting and performing is to me , and h how much more there is to do in it . |
| 21 | Next came Cooder 's first real involvement with film-work ; over the next two or three years he produced soundtracks for The Long Riders , Southern Comfort and The Border . |
| 22 | For two or three years there were few if any signs that rabbits survived . |
| 23 | it 's only been a university now for about sort of ten year well not even that , five or ten years I think . |
| 24 | Most of the courses lasted for 6 hours ( one day ) or 12 hours ( two days ) but over the past 5 or 6 years there had been an increase in the number of shorter courses . |
| 25 | In the last ten or fifteen years there has been a trend away from this geographical separation of the clinic , and there are now several purpose-built departments above ground designed as integral parts of new hospital complexes . |
| 26 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |
| 27 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 28 | She resembles closely the ‘ buxom Welsh cousin named Florence , who was probably eight or nine years my senior ’ , so described in The Childhood , with whom he spent ‘ the most blissful hours ’ in country walks from his grandmother 's Swindon home to Shaw or Lydiard when he was ten or eleven . |
| 29 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
| 30 | In my case , for four or five years I think I was probably the only person that played with digital delays and two amps and all that , and it was like a new thing . |