Example sentences of "[prep] the previous five " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 2 | Oxford , without the services of Mike Spracklen , whose subtle genius as finishing coach helped them to victories for the previous five races , have Pat Sweeney , a regular Oxford coach since 1988 , in charge . |
| 3 | I returned to the UK before was born after working in Spain for the previous five years . |
| 4 | Tom checked his NatWest statements for the previous five years and was repaid £14,974 . |
| 5 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 6 | It was during the short period of Crellin 's Chairmanship that the BDDA made a vital decision by appointing Allan Hayhurst full-time paid secretary/treasurer Hayhurst had performed this dual role for the previous five years in an honourary part-time capacity , combining it with his full-time job as missioner of the Carlisle Diocese . |
| 7 | The 1991 budget ( adopted by the Assembly on Dec. 12 , 1990 ) envisaged a growth rate of 3.5 per cent ( against an average of 4.3 per cent for the previous five years ) , inflation at 11 per cent , and a budget deficit of 673,700 million escudos . |
| 8 | People disqualified from voting include those convicted of corrupt and illegal practices in elections during the previous five years ; those imprisoned for a criminal offence ; and those detained in psychiatric hospitals . |
| 9 | In 1975 Hugo Young analysed the educational background of 31 appointees to the High Court during the previous five years . |
| 10 | Nor , normally , can an accounting reference period be extended if it has already been extended during the previous five years . |
| 11 | The figure represented an increase of more than 70 per cent over the total amount of aid granted during the previous five years . |
| 12 | Once the film has stopped I want you to describe everything that you saw during the previous five seconds of film . |
| 13 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 14 | However , despite their obvious inability to concentrate and regain the magic form of the previous Five Nations campaign , the French failed to lower their sights . |
| 15 | On 4 April 1579 , at the height of the debate about the proposed marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou , he reported that the Privy Council had met on each of the previous five days from 8. a.m. until suppertime . |
| 16 | Manufacturing output grew by 8 per cent , below the 10 per cent average of the previous five years , and mining by 9 per cent . |
| 17 | Labours Immediate Programme summarized the discussions of the previous five years in a form which appealed even to the Left of the Party and to the Communists . |
| 18 | The charter is part of a continuing modernisation of the distribution division that has included the reorganisation of the previous five administration regions into four . |
| 19 | In stark contrast , strikes and disputes have soared in Greece and Spain , with 939 days lost in Greece from 1987 to 1991 , a 72pc rise compared with the previous five years . |
| 20 | In addition to the disqualifications that apply to voting , a person may not be a candidate if he or she has been declared bankrupt within the previous five years , has incurred or authorised unlawful expenditure by a local authority above £2,000 , or is a paid employee of the local authority in question or the holder of a politically restricted post in another local authority ( see pages 88 — 9 ) . |
| 21 | It was apparent from elsewhere in the responses that four Polytechnics and five Colleges had had cuts in the area of Language in Education , and that one College and one Polytechnic had had increases in provisions within the previous five years . |
| 22 | In the previous five years the advice was published , but this year the Department of Education and Science kept it confidential . |
| 23 | Salford University , for instance , relegate on the basis of two features : a cut-off date of 1930 , and a measure of the number of uses in the previous five years . |
| 24 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 25 | In a message to the State Department on 25 May John J. Muccio rightly drew attention to the unwise nature of various statements relevant to Korea made in the previous five months : |
| 26 | There was a longer period of comparative calm in the townships of the East Rand during the second half of December than at any time in the previous five months , although during the first half of the month deaths had averaged 20 per day . |
| 27 | As approved , the bill would give Soviet citizens the automatic right to obtain a passport within one month of application , unless the applicant was involved in criminal proceedings , was liable for military service , or had had access to state secrets in the previous five years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the two years 1974 and 1975 the profit rate fell by as much as in the previous five ( table 13.1 ) . |
| 30 | The fact that France had already received the lion 's share of new European component investment over the previous five years was beside the point . |