Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [adv] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Forty or so years after his escape he was engaged as a consultant on the film A Night to Remember , made at Pinewood . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But he was to spend the next dozen or so years of his life as a partial invalid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As compulsory state education absorbed the higgledy-piggledy assortment of church , charity and board grammar schools which had emerged over the 200 or so years of industrial Britain , the essentially utilitarian character of schooling was never quite extinguished . |
| 8 | In America Dr James Tyler Kent was appalled by such modifications , feeling that many of the practices which Hahnemann had campaigned against had crept into the practice of homoeopathy itself in the one hundred or so years since its rediscovery . |
| 9 | Further , the claim is made that his criterion has withstood tests against episodes from the last two hundred or so years of physics in a superior way to rival criteria that have been proposed . |
| 10 | Lord of the Flies — imaginative essay about Ralph 20 or so years on |
| 11 | Yet in the 20 or so years during which we have been associated with processions and demonstrations about the A427 , not a single bypass has been built . |
| 12 | THE Crucible Theatre in Sheffield , host to the World Snooker Championships , stands on the site of the once famous Adelphi Hotel , birthplace in 1863 of the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and home for some 20 or so years of Henry Sampson , who holds a special place in the annals of Yorkshire cricket . |