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Example sentences for "more years"

  • Judicial separation could be obtained by either husband or wife for adultery, or cruelty, or desertion continued for two or more years.

  • The husband could obtain a divorce for adultery, the wife could obtain a divorce for adultery coupled with cruelty or desertion for two or more years, and also for incestuous or bigamous adultery, or rape, or unnatural offences.

  • It has been quite definitely established, by observation over a period of ten or more years, that the pollen of the Weschcke variety black walnut does not cause fruiting in its own pistillate blooms.

  • It may easily be that these are only of a temporary nature and until I have seen them maintained for many more years, I must consider them to be transient effects.

  • Of course this could be shortened, just as it is in propagating hickories and pecans, by making grafts on root systems which are ten or more years old, as explained in the chapter on heartnuts.

  • A patient who has had an infecting chancre one or more years before, may present a slightly raised induration on the penis at or close to the site of his original sore.

  • We have had cases under observation in which the treatment referred to has been followed by such an amount of improvement that the patient has been able to resume a laborious occupation for one or more years.

  • Hence it became possible, although requiring some years, to solve the mystery of writings of 4000 or more years old.

  • Its lasting properties are most remarkable if it be true that, used as a dye, there is still in existence specimens of it on cloth five thousand or more years old.

  • Queen Caroline, whom he had always abused and always venerated, was in her grave for twelve or more years past.

  • Asked after Maud and doubted whether she was as handsome as I was when he first saw me (thirty or more years ago).

  • Mrs. Ward read a very violent attack upon some public man of a hundred or more years ago.

  • Now we stand at another moment of change and choice, and another time to be farsighted, to bring America 50 more years of security and prosperity.

  • Some of these persons actually demand that the present forest reserves be thrown open to destruction, because, forsooth, they think that thereby the price of lumber could be put down again for two or three or more years.

  • Adultery on the part of the wife is, by the law of England, a ground for divorce, but on the part of the husband must be either incestuous or bigamous, or coupled with cruelty or desertion for two or more years.

  • Since that time it has almost ceased, so that the genuine Joshaghans of rich, deep colour and skilfully drawn pattern are all sixty or more years of age.

  • If no disease germs are found after two, four or more years, the individual may marry with some measure of assurance that he will not infect his wife or child.

  • It is always best for a young man who has practiced the secret vice for five, ten or fifteen years to quit the habit and live a continent life for one or more years.

  • When he arrives at his fiftieth milestone, if he has conserved this energy, in youth, he will thus have added thirty or more years to the fifty already lived.

  • The inability to become a father, due to one of the last causes, may be regained on one or more years of abstinence from the cause.

  • In annuals, this exhaustion is such as to destroy the plants; but if they are prevented from bearing fruit, they may be made to live for two or more years.

  • Most good white oak lumber today is cut from trees 200 or more years old.

  • The wood is useful and has been giving service since the settlement of the country began, fifty or more years ago.

  • The records of geology, written by leaf prints in the rocks, tell of forests of hickory in Europe, and even in Greenland, probably a hundred thousand or more years ago, and certainly not in times that can be called recent.

  • It is of interest to note that five hundred or more years ago, the European yew (a closely related but different species) had nearly the same name in England that the northwestern Indians gave the western yew.

  • She continued her studies for three more years, and was frequently employed as a substitute for Ysaye, as professor, to teach his classes while he was absent on concert tours.

  • They appeared together at the Haymarket Theatre in 1847, but immediately withdrew from public life and continued their studies for six more years.

  • Unless of a traumatic (externally produced wound) origin, diseases of the anal and rectal canals are usually of fifteen, twenty or more years' incubation before the annoying symptoms become apparent.

  • The swelling or puffiness of the mucous membrane becomes more marked as repeated attacks of subacute and acute inflammation occur, from year to year, over a period of twenty or more years.

  • Pile formations are a symptom of chronic proctitis of fifteen, twenty or more years duration.

  • The dictionaries received a new word in Balbriggan, which was the name of the cotton hosiery first made a hundred and fifty or more years ago at Balbriggan.

  • It were easier to have hoped for the success of Volapuk, which, itself, a dozen or more years ago, died of its own sheer weight of consonants.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    make smooth; more abundantly; more acceptable; more accurately; more agreeable; more and; more characteristic; more cheerful; more correct; more detail; more distinct; more easy; more extended; more favorable; more formal; more have; more importance; more modern; more money; more often; more readily; more species; more specifically; more then; more trouble; more water