Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the [num ord] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 2 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 3 | Now that you have a goal and some objectives for the next five years , let's concentrate on some more specific objectives for the next year . |
| 4 | GEC Ferranti and the managing director of its Scottish operation for the last five years , Ron Dunn , are to part company , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 5 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 6 | On the British Army 's most wanted list for the last five years and you still have the nerve to sit here in the middle of Belfast . ’ |
| 7 | Insignia has shown consistent profitability for the last five quarters and in calendar 1991 had sales of $14.5m — £8m , an 80% increase over the previous year . |
| 8 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 9 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 10 | The newly appointed Governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten , delivered his first policy statement on Oct. 7 at the opening of the 1992-93 session of the Legislative Council ( Legco ) , setting out the political agenda for the last five years of British rule in Hong Kong before its handover to China in 1997 . |
| 11 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 12 | The magazine carries an interview with the Princess 's favourite clairvoy ant , Irish psychic Betty Palko , of Surbiton , Surrey , who has given Diana spiri tualist sessions for the last five years . |
| 13 | She had maintained two thousand feet for the last five miles . |
| 14 | Mr Weizman , 68 , an ex-general who helped forge peace with Egypt and favours talks with the PLO , beat the former parliament speaker Dov Shilansky 66-53 in a parliamentary vote to fill the largely ceremonial post for the next five years . |
| 15 | Our automatic knitting machine , for example , has full orders for the next five years . |
| 16 | — undertaking annual declarations on long-range SLCMs for the next five years with each side limiting its SLCMs to 880 . |
| 17 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 18 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 19 | By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits . |
| 20 | The proportion of lone-parent families has remained fairly steady at 14 percent for the last five years ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 21 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 22 | Does he realise that it shows huge decreases for the next five years , especially in London , with up to 95 per cent . |
| 23 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |