Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | If that is excluded , then we come back down towards the twenty five hectares . |
| 4 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 7 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Football obviously is the big one , so out of the two hundred you 'll probably get something like eighty footballers and then out of the other five sports that we 're going to host erm we will split them accordingly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 16 | It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services . |