Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] for the [num ord] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money seems little object , and one German satellite station has spent $25 million buying the rights to ATP 's new tennis tour for the next five years . |
| 2 | ‘ Expanding Emporio is the most important aspect of my business plan for the next five years , ’ says the maestro , confidently plotting his way to a bright future as less resilient designers wring their hands or close shop . |
| 3 | The course has helped Pauline with such issues as marketing and cash flow and she already has drawn up a business plan for the next five years — confirming that she too has no plans to return to full-time employment . |
| 4 | Give all the tax relief on mortgage interest for the next five years as a lump sum in the 1993–94 tax year , he says , to ‘ boost consumer confidence ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 6 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 7 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 8 | Andrew 's wife , Abi , a former production manager , has been a freelance photographer for the last five years . |
| 9 | The improvement of our management of information should be the major thrust of our information services strategy for the next five years . |
| 10 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |