Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] five years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 2 | The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare . |
| 3 | ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair . |
| 4 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 5 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 6 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 7 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 8 | Thereafter for the next five years she helped to load the new machine . |
| 9 | For the next five years he remained the king 's captive , and only in December 1327 , a year after the old reign had ended in a revolution , did Edward III order his release and the return of his lands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During the past five years we have identified a total of 12 patients with endoscopically confirmed chronic DU disease unassociated with current or recent H pylori infection ( Table 1 ) . |
| 12 | During the next five years he travelled –40,000 kilometres and visited 45 different countries . |
| 13 | Within the next five years we should have moved into new ( larger ? ) premises designed around a more ergonomic layout than the present facilities . |
| 14 | I 'll go in these doors , I was n't surprised , I did n't think they would , but as this guy said afterwards he said whether you do it now or later he said , within the next five years it 's gon na be banned so I think it still will be banned in the end |
| 15 | What is more , within the next five years he reached all those conclusions in general biological theory that his books were to expound three decades later . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 18 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 19 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 20 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 21 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |
| 24 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 25 | Over the first five years he introduced new locomotive designs and continued the development of the main-line ‘ Pacific ’ type , incorporating detailed improvements pioneered by George Jackson Churchward [ q.v. ] of the Great Western , whose work he greatly admired . |
| 26 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 27 | Through reorganizing my course material over the last five years I have come to the conclusion that there is no one definitive structure for the study of electronic publishing . |
| 28 | Over the last five years I have moved into working with practising teachers and other members of the education service . |
| 29 | He says over the last five years it 's got far more popular … it 's a sport which is developing … it 's just opening up as a competitve sport … |
| 30 | In a departure from the stance of previous governments , the government announced in February 1990 that over the next five years it proposed to pay Sch300,000,000 in reparations to Austrian Jews who had fled the country after the Anschluss ( the forcible union of Austria with Nazi Germany in 1938 ) and who had not previously received compensation . |