Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] five years " 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 | ‘ In May next year she will have been in remission for five years , ’ explains her mum . |
| 3 | An obstructive episode was treated with bypass enteroenteric anastomosis and maintenance prenisolone and he remained in remission for five years . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Yeah but the the reason I look at the the poxy Hotpoint because they say well , they guarantee their part for five years , alright ? |
| 6 | The Census Dissemination Unit and the Census Microdata Unit have been funded in the first instance for five years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Unemployment in the United States is at its highest level for five years . |
| 11 | He 'd worked in the building for five years , and knew the names of most of the occupants ' visitors . |
| 12 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 13 | My father works for an oil company and last summer he was seconded to their Texas headquarters for five years . |
| 14 | It has floundered in recession for five years . |
| 15 | I went to university for five years ' study . |
| 16 | Not long afterwards another change in the editorship resulted in Bernard Quinn 's assuming responsibility for five years starting with the April issue in 1984 . |
| 17 | He served in the RAF for five years and stood as a candidate in the 1984 Euro elections and in the 1987 general election . |
| 18 | He comes from the South and has worked in Middlesbrough for five years , his job proving that numeracy and literacy can go hand-in-hand . |
| 19 | Appointments announced by the York Diocese include the Rev Catherine Durnford , assistant curate at Whitby , who has been appointed assistant curate at Redcar ; the Rev Christopher Morgan becomes vicar of St Hilda 's , York , and the Rev Simon Wright has been re-appointed Rural Dean of Middlesbrough for five years . |
| 20 | ‘ We expect to have the sprayer for five years , and the way the law is changing , closed transfer systems will probably soon be compulsory anyway , ’ thinks Mr Doig . |
| 21 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
| 22 | Sanchita Saha , defending , said Mr. Uddin , 29 , had owned the Lal Quila for five years and never had a complaint before . |
| 23 | In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons . |
| 24 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 25 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |
| 26 | Those who work less than 16 hours per week ( or eight hours after five years with one employer ) also lose employment rights such as maternity leave , unfair dismissal protection and redundancy payments . |
| 27 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 28 | A COUPLE who caused suffering to their pets by deserting them when they moved house have been banned from keeping animals for five years . |
| 29 | They were each fined £50 , ordered to pay £75 costs and banned from keeping animals for five years . |
| 30 | Immediately after the War , Paul was sent to London , where he studied the Talmud in a yeshiva in Stamford Hill for five years . |