Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 2 | The left side is a highly sophisticated computer which , under deep hypnosis , would give you the data registered five years ago recording the number , make and colour of the car which was standing outside your home at the time . |
| 3 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 4 | Susanna spent five years developing and writing this book . |
| 5 | In the whole of 1991 , 139,810 diesel models were registered , representing an 8.78pc penetration more than double the figure achieved five years ago . |
| 6 | At Speech Day in that year the Headmaster was able to announce that from September the School would be fully co-educational , in fulfilment of the plan announced five years earlier . |
| 7 | Copper-plate engravings were first used for book illustration in England in 1540 , when Richard Jonas published a translation of a German work on childbirth , and the first copper-plate title-page came five years later , with Thomas Gemini 's Compendiosa totius anatomie delineato . |
| 8 | Another discovery came five years ago , when Sarah spotted a 16-year-old schoolgirl named Miranda Morton walking along London 's Battersea Park Road . |
| 9 | The elimination of the final barriers came five years ahead of the schedule agreed in the Closer Economic Relations agreement signed in 1983 . |
| 10 | All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years ' improvement to bring about secondary education for all . |
| 11 | In 1980–1 , in the first Test to be played on his home ground in Antigua , there was never any doubt that he was going to mark the occasion with a century , and , as we shall see , when England returned five years later he marked that occasion in the most spectacular fashion . |
| 12 | The seventh oldest club in the country , Darlington have been in Durham and Northumberland Division One five divisions below National Division Four since league rugby began five years ago . |
| 13 | On his first ministerial visit to a hospital to meet with Bosnian evacuees , Dr Brian Mawhinney presented five year old Adis Avdic with a cuddly dinosaur , revealing his own daughter is a Jurrassic Park fan . |
| 14 | Alex Bennett , 14 , also of Nova Centurion , shaved 0.05sec off the British junior record for the 50m backstroke set five years ago . |
| 15 | He was not as successful with melons because even ‘ Miller 's very fine old seed produced abominable fruit , and after trials covering five years he wrote to Chelsea for guidance . |
| 16 | No doubt intelligent 20-year-olds have become successful foreign exchange dealers within a year , but to train a graduate-level engineer takes five years or more . |
| 17 | Special school scandal.Social workers knew FIVE years ago . |
| 18 | Victor Vince , the Company 's General Manager has been with the firm for the past twenty years , Victor served five years in the RAF as an Aircraft Electrician tending to the needs of Bomber Command 's Halifaxes and Lancasters . |
| 19 | The Slater Foundation started five years ago with three members . |
| 20 | My involvement with separatism lasted five years , but in a very real sense it will never leave me . |
| 21 | Four of the six patients survived five years ; two of these four patients were still alive beyond that period , including our case 2 patient , the only long term survivor treated exclusively with combination chemotherapy . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean we 're not in the position to do what some of the , certainly I know some of the banks do , which is to guarantee a job after five years , let people have five years , you know , the maternity leave plus a guaranteed job at the end of another four when the kids start school , on the proviso that you can call them in if you need them within that period , for a bit of extra help . |
| 23 | If Mark Knopfler took five years to produce another record , and it was a classic , I do n't have any worries . |
| 24 | The start of the London Underground-BR Crossrail scheme , scheduled originally for 1995 , could now be put back following the decision to involve the private sector.Likely to take five years to complete , the scheme would run from Reading and Aylesbury in the west across London to Shenfield in Essex in the east . |
| 25 | The eldest sister died five years ago and up to the age of eighty-two she drove her Aston Martin from Duns to Glasgow , twice a week at eighty miles an hour , to take an interest in the family business . |
| 26 | The French army , formed of a selected number of conscripts serving five years , was still digesting the lessons of 1870 . |
| 27 | Man gets five years for 12-in knife attack |
| 28 | However , the significant fact was that this incident took five years to come to court . |
| 29 | The trust will follow a similar investment strategy to the Hypo Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies unit trust , the top performing authorised fund for the five years to the end of December , with £1,000 invested five years ago now worth £4,348 . |
| 30 | In the week before polling day Kaunda released a report complied five years earlier on drug traffickers in which leading figures in the MMD were implicated . |