Example sentences of "[verb] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the strangest case on record is that described five years ago in The Lancet ( 1978 , vol 2 , p 952 ) by Dr M. Loughhead and two colleagues at the Royal Hobart Hospital , Tasmania . |
| 2 | Mr Simon Heffer argued in last week 's Spectator that welfarism is once more coming to characterise the British , having been repulsed during the Thatcher years : ‘ The plaintive , dependent-relative voice of the something-for-nothing society , heard on almost every street in this campaign , was a little harder to find five years ago . ’ |
| 3 | And since Felicity — that 's my wife — ca n't now experience what 's happening five years ago — because it 's receding faster than the speed of light , and the speed of light is a constant which , as we know from Einsteinian physics , can not be exceeded … |
| 4 | The cheapest proposal would still need five years to recoup its costs . |
| 5 | It is therefore desirable to have both a long-term ( say five years ) and a short-term ( one year ) plan . |
| 6 | And would an an apprentice , like somebody who 'd say served say five years as their time , once their time was out would it be common for them to be kept on ? |
| 7 | Management strategies must grow out of consideration of such questions as the desirability of balance within the curriculum and how best management techniques might serve this … especially when making medium term decisions ( say five years ) … |
| 8 | A longitudinal study involves a pattern of the form where the same sample ( sometimes called the panel ) is observed ( O i ) at ( usually ) equal intervals of time — say five years . |
| 9 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 10 | The Canadian sprinter , Ben Johnson , has been banned for life after failing a drugs test five years after he was expelled from the Olympics for drug-taking . |
| 11 | You 'd think no-one else had ever made a film except him and you can see him coming on all good mates with the crew so they 'll make things easier for him when he gets in front of camera , so he looks five years younger and I get the shiny nose . |
| 12 | In 1922 Mr Charles Hinks became articled to Mr Latimer and was given a partnership on qualifying five years later at the age of 21 quite a distinction as the custom was to buy a share in a practice . |
| 13 | Buzzards Bellbuoy is certainly a possibility under last year 's hero Jimmy Quinn , and comes from the same stable as Cuvee Charlie ( won five years ago ) . |
| 14 | But they divorced five years later . |
| 15 | While the " U " or " J " shaped relationship of maternal age to child mortality generally prevails , since the survival rate of children up to age five years is determined mostly by the high mortality of infants , it is of less impressive strength in the mortality of children aged 1–4 years than in the incidence of infant deaths . |
| 16 | Seventy seven percent will survive five years , fifty eight percent survive ten years , and forty seven survive thirty years , and we are improving . |
| 17 | Coenred , son of Wulfhere , was a man of at least 30 years of age , possibly older , who abdicated five years later in 709 to live as a monk at Rome ( HE V , 19 , 24 ) and who was succeeded by Aethelred 's son , Ceolred . |
| 18 | He describes five years of hell and terror , as the bulldozers clearing space for Ceausescu 's Palace came ever closer to his house . |
| 19 | If you wait five years it gets slightly steeper so the force to you becomes that and so on and so forth , forty five fifty and you can see at fifty five if you want to retire at a certain age er what 's the age that you actually want to retire ? |
| 20 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 21 | On the other hand , patients with locally confined but palpable disease who are treated by either radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy will show five year survival rates of 75–85% and will enjoy a life expectancy comparable to that of an aged matched male population . |
| 22 | Gabriel Cleary , James Doherty and James Coll , all from the Republic of Ireland and all IRA members , received five-year sentences , and Henry Cairns , who had co-operated with the French authorities , also received five years but with two years suspended . |
| 23 | Former Interior Minister Tudor Postelnicu , who was already serving a life sentence for " co-authorship of genocide " [ see pp. 37252-53 ] , received five years . |
| 24 | I received five years of general secondary education and two years at computer training school . |
| 25 | Walter Rhoode 125 years ) , Coin Petersen 123 years ) , Leon Scott ( 30 Years ) and Coin Cairncross 124 years ) received five years suspended sentences each . |
| 26 | They still have n't been regraded five years later . |
| 27 | The thing that worries some people is that as it 's come at this particular time that some of the things that might have been done five years ago by Local Education Authorities to improve their whole education for children with special needs may now , either through other competing financial pressures , or through inertia or whatever , the whole spirit of Warnock could be lost , and I think it 's a thing that , you know , one will have to keep a careful eye on . |
| 28 | On October 11 , 1991 , Vernage walked out of prison after serving five years of a seven-year burglary sentence . |
| 29 | The French army , formed of a selected number of conscripts serving five years , was still digesting the lessons of 1870 . |
| 30 | For a brief period in the Spring of 1987 , London was the only English metropolitan centre with more than one evening daily paper — it had three — having endured five years when only one , the Standard , was published . |