Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [num ord] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew 's wife , Abi , a former production manager , has been a freelance photographer for the last five years . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 3 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 4 | The implication of any figure , indeed the County Council 's figure for the last five years of the structure plan , could be characterized as putting the brakes on so hard , that the passengers all fall off the train . |
| 5 | ‘ Expanding Emporio is the most important aspect of my business plan for the next five years , ’ says the maestro , confidently plotting his way to a bright future as less resilient designers wring their hands or close shop . |
| 6 | Now make the changes to your success image and to your plan for the next five years . |
| 7 | The course has helped Pauline with such issues as marketing and cash flow and she already has drawn up a business plan for the next five years — confirming that she too has no plans to return to full-time employment . |
| 8 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 9 | Mr Weizman , 68 , an ex-general who helped forge peace with Egypt and favours talks with the PLO , beat the former parliament speaker Dov Shilansky 66-53 in a parliamentary vote to fill the largely ceremonial post for the next five years . |
| 10 | Raima UK is likely to be joint-owned by the two companies , and is said by Systemstar 's David Turley to be ‘ the inevitable consequence of our selling the product for the last five years ’ . |
| 11 | The newly appointed Governor of Hong Kong , Chris Patten , delivered his first policy statement on Oct. 7 at the opening of the 1992-93 session of the Legislative Council ( Legco ) , setting out the political agenda for the last five years of British rule in Hong Kong before its handover to China in 1997 . |
| 12 | There 's scores of Central South folk heading for Wales this weekend to ride and run in one of the great adventure races … its the annual Horse v Man V Mountain Bike challenge … local people have won the race for the last five years … and you can if the winning run or ride continues when we bring you the highlights on Monday … |
| 13 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 14 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 15 | The improvement of our management of information should be the major thrust of our information services strategy for the next five years . |
| 16 | But timber consumption continues to exceed growth rate and , in a move to break this cycle , China is to execute a plan to reduce the present level of consumption and limit the use of timber for the next five years . |
| 17 | However , the Department of Agriculture 's proposals for the 1990 farm bill , introduced on Feb. 9 , 1990 , to set policy for the next five years , failed to address the issue of subsidy levels and merely proposed modifications to the current programme . |
| 18 | ‘ Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years . |
| 19 | Money seems little object , and one German satellite station has spent $25 million buying the rights to ATP 's new tennis tour for the next five years . |
| 20 | So the crucial question is not whether party programme A is preferred to party programme B ; the issue is whether we want to keep the same government for the next five years or whether we want a different one . |
| 21 | GEC Ferranti and the managing director of its Scottish operation for the last five years , Ron Dunn , are to part company , writes Marcello Mega . |
| 22 | Sarah Thomas had been Philpott 's secretary for the last five years . |
| 23 | On the British Army 's most wanted list for the last five years and you still have the nerve to sit here in the middle of Belfast . ’ |
| 24 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 25 | BR is projecting to shed 1,000 jobs a year for the next five years , cutting the total workforce to 130,000 by 1992/93 — from around 200,000 in the early 1980s . |
| 26 | On Sept. 6 France had blocked proposals to allow increased access for beef and other meat , but on Sept. 30 it was agreed that the three countries could increase meat sales by 10 per cent per year for the next five years , with the EC preventing any adverse impact on the internal market for its own produce by financing the sale of all this additional meat to the Soviet Union , Romania and Albania . |
| 27 | Strong words when you consider the market in cholesterol-lowering drugs has expanded by 34.4 per cent a year for the last five years . |
| 28 | The Socialists , who have ruled the country for the last five years , were expected to be left with less than 70 seats , after winning a mere 19 per cent of the vote — their lowest score in any general election in recent times . |
| 29 | Asked by an exit pollster which way he had cast his vote , he replied : ‘ I voted for the party that is going to run the country for the next five years . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I think that if he touched the electric fence when it was on , he 'd be frightened to death and we 'd never get near him again , ’ says Penny Stevens , his groom for the last five years . |