Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Wilson aged 43 , a married man with three children , has been employed by Humberside Heavy Haulage as a traffic clerk for five years and his current weekly wage is £120 per week . |
| 2 | A memorial service is to be held in Swindon for five youngsters who died when a car ploughed into them . |
| 3 | ‘ In May next year she will have been in remission for five years , ’ explains her mum . |
| 4 | An obstructive episode was treated with bypass enteroenteric anastomosis and maintenance prenisolone and he remained in remission for five years . |
| 5 | ‘ I could go to see Lewis Watts , he was my dad 's apprentice for five years when I was a little sprout like you just learning the trade . |
| 6 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 7 | His contract for five talks is the only paying work he 's got . |
| 8 | When I was a player , I 'd go into his office and we 'd talk contract for five minutes about other things for 30 minutes . ’ |
| 9 | Yeah but the the reason I look at the the poxy Hotpoint because they say well , they guarantee their part for five years , alright ? |
| 10 | The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years . |
| 11 | Hawke did receive a boost from the unemployment figures , however , which showed that there had been a fall in May to 9.4 per cent , the first reduction for five months . |
| 12 | Alan Capper said there were no other parties involved and Anneka , who has been married to the theatre producer Nick Allott for five years , hoped the separation will not be permanent . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , we have a cheque for five pounds , and no reply from the furriers . |
| 14 | A man has been admitted to hospital after sitting in his Saab for five hours with the motor running and a hose connected to the exhaust . |
| 15 | Mr Reuss , who had been in charge of the North American car operations for five years , will be replaced by vice-chairman John Smith , who transformed GM 's ailing European operations in the 1980s . |
| 16 | Sales in the UK supermarkets and Savacentre hypermarkets grew by 9.5% — the highest level for five years — and the group has grabbed an 11% market share , up from 10.2% last time . |
| 17 | Unemployment in the United States is at its highest level for five years . |
| 18 | He 'd worked in the building for five years , and knew the names of most of the occupants ' visitors . |
| 19 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 20 | You ever tried keeping milk for five kids without a fridge in a heatwave ? ’ |
| 21 | The surgery is a new base for five doctors who have moved out of the adjacent Netherton Health Centre . |
| 22 | She says : ‘ I check the women 's blood pressure on the hour for five hours . |
| 23 | However , for $700 per user for five users , it is still very sexy stuff . |
| 24 | In March 1991 , a student in Assam was arrested and held in an army camp for five days , where he was beaten and electric shocks were applied to his body . |
| 25 | My father works for an oil company and last summer he was seconded to their Texas headquarters for five years . |
| 26 | It has floundered in recession for five years . |
| 27 | I went to university for five years ' study . |
| 28 | Her qualification comes at the end of a two year distance learning course , during which time Irene had to attend Robert Gordon 's University for five days every three months , complete and pass six modules as well as writing a 10,000 word research based dissertation . |
| 29 | It was from 1705 that he endowed £1,000 for five schools in Saltash , Liskeard , Looe , Penzance and Grampound ; whether education has wrought any substantial change in youth since that day is open to opinion . |
| 30 | The Ejercito Guerrilleiro de Pobo Galego Ceibe ( EGPGC — Guerrilla Army of the Free Galician People ) claimed responsibility for five bombings in the province of Pontevedra on Oct. 11 , 1990 . |