Example sentences of "[coord] in [art] [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lewis refereed last year 's Rumbelows Cup final and in the past five years has taken charge of three FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |