Example sentences of "year or so [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 2 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 3 | He first noticed a young boy early one summer , about a year or so after he had taken over Entwhistle Halt . |
| 4 | One day , a year or so after I had landed at Heathrow , I was playing football in the playground , chasing the ball over the yard in the way of primary school kids , when a teacher , Mr Wright came up to me . |
| 5 | I am not due home for another year or so and I hope that by then a little more of the Peruvian culture and faith will have rubbed off on me . |
| 6 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 7 | In Bridget 's case , her subsequent boyfriend stayed around for a year or so until she and her family moved house . |