Example sentences of "[pers pn] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The south-western desert states ( Arizona , New Mexico , Nevada and Utah ) have largely escaped the current recession , having suffered theirs five years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ So she worked with you five years ago ? ’ |
| 3 | Most of this is tied up in grants , salaries and existing programmes , some of them five years long . |
| 4 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 5 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 6 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 7 | Fitzsimmons , from the Floral Dance town of Helston in Cornwall , took it off him five years later . |
| 8 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 9 | Give him five years and he 'll be running for President . |
| 10 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 11 | Er you saw the er saw him five years ago in the navy , now it could 've been just a regular check which every seaman gets or it could be , it could 've been something of a serious nature . |
| 12 | Had him five years so . |
| 13 | Whatever the age group we 're working with ( be it five year olds or fifty year olds ) the basic elements of drama remain the same : |
| 14 | And it 's the only house now well I left it I left it five year ago but it still belongs to my son . |
| 15 | But erm most of the things that you will be de now the thing is about properties , that if you 've got a second property for example , or erm you know that 's not your primary residence , you would be liable to capital gain on a disposal , so if you 'd bought the house for ten thousand and you sold it five years later for twenty , then the gain er on that would be the twenty er the ten thousand that you 'd gained , less any indexation from nineteen eighty two , and they would then er er look at that as an allowance to use against it . |
| 16 | He says it 's another shock , to extend it five years — it 's more devastating than it was to begin with — yet more uncertainty . |
| 17 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's taken us five years to get this far and by now we know when we 've had enough of each other and when to get out of the van and go and sit somewhere quiet to cool off , ’ says Craig . |
| 19 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |