Example sentences of "or [adj] years [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For seven or eight years he was down at the ground every day . |
| 2 | Except the first two or three years I was here . |
| 3 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |
| 4 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 5 | The first twelve months or two years it was very good . |