Example sentences of "[noun] in five years " in BNC.

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1 At the end of 1988 , BR 's Provincial sector announced that the Valley Lines had doubled their revenue in five years , the only Provincial services to do so !
2 The first Iranian ambassador to be assigned to Kuwait in five years ( Kuwait having supported Iraq in the Gulf war ) , Hussein Sadeqi , took up his post on Sept. 29 , 1989 .
3 No significant additions to IT are envisaged in the foreseeable future but as RBG becomes more independent and estates staff and records increase a review in five years will be essential .
4 By taking certain courses common to the MA ( in the Faculty of Arts ) and the BD degree , it is possible to attain the combined MA/BD degree in five years .
5 WIMBLEDON champion Steffi Graf is considering quitting tennis in five years .
6 When Lynch beat Jackie Brown ( of Collyhurst ) at Belle Vue , Manchester , overwhelmingly in two rounds in September 1935 , it was only his third contest outside Scotland in five years of professional boxing .
7 As Rothschild says : ‘ In effect , Rákosi killed more communists in five years than Horthy had in twenty-five , and the entire society was cowed into a condition of bewilderment and terror . ’
8 But only about 170 Arabs had claimed such compensation in five years ; making a claim in the Israeli courts means recognising the state of Israel .
9 Only 170 Arabs had made successful applications in five years .
10 We are interested in tools for the classroom in five years ' time , rather than those which can be run now .
11 It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now .
12 WEST HAM midfielder Martin Allen was yesterday handed a four-match ban and a £1,000 fine by the Football Association — less than 24 hours after his team-mate Julian Dicks received his 40th booking in five years and admitted he had considered quitting the game .
13 If the present population is eighty three percent calculate the planned population in five years time .
14 Cumbria council said more than £7 million had been spent improving safety in five years .
15 It was the biggest hoist in five years .
16 Though he has not released a record in five years , his success in the 1980s was astronomical : his three solo albums sold more than 75m copies altogether , his two home-videos 1m each .
17 I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people .
18 But when you spend it when you 're spending your income you 're not accumulating your capital , so this person in five years time , although they 've had their income which may vary between seven and thirteen percent , their ten thousand is still ten thousand pounds , and obviously that would have devalued in real terms against inflation , which is the other problem .
19 He alleges that when Lairds was sold in the 1980s , VSEL agreed to pay £40m to the Treasury if their profits exceeded £100m in five years .
20 If not , come over to me and I 'll make you a world champion in five years .
21 Bob Dwyer 's boys may be kings of the 15-a-side code but they have n't had a sniff of a sevens title in five years .
22 PETANQUE expert Pierre Bretenoux , our manager at the Lord Todd in Glasgow , captained his triples team , Les Pirons , to the Scottish Grand Prix title in five years .
23 THE Tories have created a monster in the health service when top managers have had a 900 per cent pay rise in five years .
24 Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years .
25 In 1989 activity once again expanded more rapidly than elsewhere in the EC [ gross domestic product rising to 6.2 per cent ] , unemployment [ at 1.4 per cent ] fell to its lowest level in five years , inflation remained fairly restrained [ consumer prices rose by 3.4 per cent ] , the state budget notched up a small favourable balance , and the currency account registered yet another enormous surplus [ of LF58,400 million ] . "
26 HEINZ FREI , the world record-holder from Switzerland , is expected to become the fourth foreign winner in five years of the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon tomorrow .
27 Joan had not visited Brian 's grave in five years and had expected to find it neglected and overgrown .
28 Who knows , Charles and Di might still be together had they followed the path of love the Nescafe way : see each other only 11 times in five years , never take your clothes off during sex , and make sure your tongue spends more time in a cup of coffee than in your partner 's mouth .
29 We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’
30 This was to be preferred to the more rigid prescriptions of schools like the large 11–18 Welsh comprehensive which allocated young pupils to sharply divided courses within the school : one group advancing fast to O level in four years , four groups in five years , the next four to CSE ( for which see Chapter 7 ) in five years , four groups following special technical courses , two following general technical courses , two or three on commercial courses , and finally two groups for ‘ low ability ’ pupils .
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