Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 2 | It is reported ( EP , 28 December 1987 ) that in the past five years Slovenia has taken full advantage of this arrangement . |
| 3 | It had seemed to him , about halfway through his investigation , that in the past five years Jean-Paul had done one thing , and one thing only . |
| 4 | However , it should be some consolation to the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) that in the past five years the average sentence for rape has increased by 70 per cent . |
| 5 | Miti also claimed that in the past five years Japan 's imports from its 10 largest trading partners had increased by 96 per cent , while exports had risen by only 45 per cent . |
| 6 | Mr Vernon pointed out that in the next five years this programme will have cost some £20m , and that figure would need to be borne in mind when setting fund raising targets for the future . |
| 7 | Previous work funded by the ESRC at the Institute of Education showed that in the last five years screening techniques have been used increasingly to identify children for special educational provision . |
| 8 | Grain prices in the last five years of Elizabeth 's reign were 75 per cent higher than in the first five years ; but wages and industrial prices had risen much less steeply . |
| 9 | 1991 was the worst year of the current 30-year pandemic of cholera , with more cases than in the past five years combined . |
| 10 | The cancellation fee will be ten per cent if in the first five years , five per cent between five and ten years , two per cent thereafter . ’ |
| 11 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 12 | Sir Michael Edwardes was appointed to the task of rescuing the company in 1977 and in the next five years attempted to reduce excessive centralisation in the company and to improve efficiency , which involved many plant closures and redundancies . |
| 13 | Lewis refereed last year 's Rumbelows Cup final and in the past five years has taken charge of three FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 14 | There were 4,000 reports to the National Criminal Intelligence Service last year and in the last five years over £500,000 in cash has been seized . |
| 15 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 16 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 17 | John Evans has covered cricket , football , rugby , tennis , swimming and many other sporting events in the past , but in the last five years has tended to concentrate on athletics . |
| 18 | Because in the next five years , we 'll be doing even more to create even more solutions . |