Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pat Nevin , our other scorer , has not been able to train properly for the last five weeks because of an ankle problem . ’ |
| 2 | I conclude now , with even more emphasis than before , that the over-valuation of sterling , superimposed on very deeply entrenched adverse long-term trends in overseas trade , will ensure that our foreign trade performance will not warrant a growth rate of more than 1–2 per cent at the very most during the next five years . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 4 | The darker your skin , the more protected it is , but most skins still need to use a sunfilter , especially during the first five days . |
| 5 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 6 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 7 | Here we have what is clearly a well set-up series of dialogues : Wilekin with Margery ; Wilekin with Dame Sirith ; Dame Sirith with Margery ; only in the last five stanzas do we get anything more complicated , with three characters present in the same scene . |
| 8 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 9 | so over the next five minutes sort it out . |
| 10 | His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good . |
| 11 | XPG4 will be updated constantly over the next five years before the introduction of XPG5 , which is expected , by that time , to specify fully functional , object-oriented technology from the kernel level upwards . |
| 12 | The relationship between the judiciary and the Government has been changed by developments over the last twenty years and especially over the last five years or so . |
| 13 | Gloucester after Saturday 's match at Kingsholm were left feeling just as impotent and just as confounded after Bath had stormed away in the last five minutes of extra time to win this semi-final . |
| 14 | And the Northern Ireland International surprisingly finding himself in the clear twice already in the first five minutes , although that was er obviously not a chance . |
| 15 | GARDEN PLANTS FOR FREE The Gardener has 5 copies of Alan and Adrian Bloom 's Blooms of Bressingham Garden Plants to give away to the first five readers whose names are drawn from the postbag after 31 December 1992 . |
| 16 | ‘ Our business in this market has grown impressively over the last five years , thanks largely to the efforts of Tony Hardacre and our agents , the Sumitomo Corporation , ’ said Juan . |
| 17 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 18 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 19 | Colour printers have spread rapidly in the last five years as their price has fallen . |
| 20 | We grew very rapidly until the last five years or so , since when we 've levelled off in size , but erm the range of our activities in various countries abroad and indeed in Britain , has continued to grow . |
| 21 | Their numbers have dropped noticeably in the last five years and very dramatically since the 1880s , when 70 per cent of all cattle in the Netherlands were Groningens while Friesians represented only 18 per cent and were mainly restricted to Friesland and Drenthe . |
| 22 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 23 | Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status . |
| 24 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 26 | AN interception try and a penalty , both in the last five minutes , earned Llanelli a narrow victory over Boroughmuir in a spectacular game in front of a 4,000 crowd at Meggetland last night . |
| 27 | Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years . |
| 28 | United had only one fit midfield man , Chris Leadbitter , after the suspension of Tony Dennis but Bailie out for the last five games proved his fitness in the reserves ' 4–1 victory over Aldershot in midweek . |
| 29 | Ards fell behind in the first five minutes when uncertain defence allowed left wing Bell in for a try which was converted from the touchline by Barnes . |
| 30 | His departure , combined with those of Chris Kearney and Jason Fogerty who both fouled out in the last five minutes , proved crucial to the outcome . |