Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates suggest that there may be enough coal left to last a few more hundred years , enough oil to last perhaps 70 or so years and natural gas could run out within 50 years . |
| 2 | The man sitting next to her was like a porcelain buddha , rotund and self contained , the skin without a wrinkle despite being fifty or so years old . |
| 3 | For the past forty or so years since the railways passed into public ownership , the issue of social support — that is the extent to which unremunerative routes should be directly subsidised by the taxpayer — has never been entirely clear . |
| 4 | He had been a member of the Building Committee which , forty or so years before , had planned the Memorial Church . |
| 5 | The Fabians were particularly influential during the first forty or so years of their history , a period in which the leading lights were the Webbs , G. B. Shaw , Graham Wallas , and H. G. Wells and , less consistently , Bertrand Russell , G. D. H. Cole , Harold Laski , and R. H. Tawney . |
| 6 | Forty or so years after his escape he was engaged as a consultant on the film A Night to Remember , made at Pinewood . |
| 7 | Moreover , he had added to his possessions a piece of luggage of inestimable value for now - and for the next 30 or so years : his Olivetti 22 portable typewriter , which he had bought in London for £40 , no small investment for those days . |
| 8 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 9 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 10 | Cleared by the military Ohakea Control to climb into their airspace I coaxed a Grumman AA5 up to 11,000 feet , to look down into the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu , 9,175 feet high , to see steam and smoke coming from the crater within the torn and shattered peak of 6,517 foot Mount Tongariro ( whose last major eruption was only a dozen or so years back ) and to fly around the perfectly symmetrical cone of Mount Ngauruhoe . |
| 11 | Social work 's image has suffered over the past dozen or so years from a series of scandals where agencies ' failures have been highlighted , often with total disregard to their successes . |
| 12 | In the three or so years before matters were finally settled , a lot happened ; George Simpson gave up his interest in the partnership to retire to his leafy mansion near Reigate ; Hofmann had left England to take up a prestigious academic post in Berlin ; and the new Nicholson , Maule & Nicholson partnership had begun to transfer its production to a site at Hackney Wick . |
| 13 | If you 've found my column occasionally depressing over the past three or so years because of my doom-mongering , you should try reading The Great Reckoning by James Dale Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg . |
| 14 | Here the new head had recently approached the teacher-librarian in the hope that the school might become involved in the ESSE/L Project , apparently unaware that it had received a Minor award three or so years before . |
| 15 | Another member of the audience asked , ‘ What would be different this time around as we went through a similar identity crisis 5 or so years ago . ’ |
| 16 | Though founded by the Vikings a thousand or so years ago it has , like most East Riding villages , very few really ancient buildings . |
| 17 | Well , having agreed with that , Freud then , faces a problem , because the problem he faces is , that in the previous book of his , that we looked at er , that he had published erm , what fourteen or so years earlier , Totem and Taboo where he had talked about the origin of religion . |
| 18 | Parentally condoned absenteeism can , according to research studies over the past ten or so years , account for as much as 50–75 per cent of non-excused absenteeism . |
| 19 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 20 | If a list of set books had been included in the Statutory Orders , it is easy to imagine how after ten or so years teachers would be desperately trying to change it , with old-fashioned Members of Parliament resisting in lively debates . |
| 21 | Weeell , to our knowledge , no-one else quite sums up the paper over the past ten or so years — rarely has a pop personage and his relationship with a music paper produced so many sparks , so much debate , so much excellent copy , and ( ahem ) so many yards of Angst . |
| 22 | During the ten or so years leading up to the inauguration of Channel Four in 1982 many proposals were considered but there seemed to be a degree of agreement amongst those favouring a novel form of organization that allocating the ‘ fourth channel ’ to the commercial sector would only |
| 23 | The ‘ ship ’ is therefore dwarfed by the size of the ocean which is post-school education and training ; moreover it is an ocean which over the last ten or so years has been in unprecedented turmoil culminating in the hurricane represented by the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 24 | We live in a free market economy which has prospered considerably over the last ten or so years . |
| 25 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 26 | The proportion has changed very little in the 50 or so years that women have had the vote , and the current number is actually one less than that in 1945 . |
| 27 | Invariably the tension relieving behaviour of geriatric anxiety is howling and barking in the owner 's absence — completely out of character with the dog that they have lived with for 13 or so years . |
| 28 | Historically , the behaviour of the students in the five or so years starting in 1969 can be seen as one more blow to education , one more reason for the public to begin to demand that they should have more control over the educational system . |
| 29 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 30 | The associated requirement , to complete a mandatory period of auditing during the five or so years ' training that spans admission to membership of the Institute , led to two more changes . |