Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | chair for that five years and , there were constantly people parking on the pavements , which necessitate you |
| 2 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 3 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 4 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 5 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 6 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 7 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 8 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 9 | In November 1633 Crowe had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople , though he was unable to take up the appointment for another five years . |
| 10 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 11 | The 1984 economic and security co-operation accord with Libya [ see p. 33435 ] was renewed on Feb. 19 , 1990 , for another five years , but now covered only economic , social and cultural links . |
| 12 | Gary Harriss says he hopes to be an amateur for another five years play in the walker Cup and then turn pro … |
| 13 | After the last recession ended , unemployment climbed onwards and upwards for another five years . |
| 14 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 15 | ‘ The Battle of Britain did n't last long , but I 'm afraid you 've got about another five years of war , Johnny . ’ |
| 16 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |
| 17 | Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful . |
| 18 | For forty five years , we 're being told continually that it is the envy of the world . |
| 19 | Ken was effectively a bishop for some five years , during which he showed great zeal for the teaching of the Catechism and the relief of the poor . |
| 20 | White says Informix has had a passive ( inactive ) wholly-owned subsidiary in Japan for some five years . |
| 21 | They continued for some five years a guerilla war against the employers . |
| 22 | June : tour of Middle East by President Hrawi [ see p. 37548 ] ; December : visit to Beirut by President Chadli Bendjedid of Algeria , the first official visit to Lebanon by a foreign head of state for some five years . |
| 23 | They formed the basis of the LM method which was to follow after another five years painstaking work . |
| 24 | Arthur Hawthorn ( right ) , Threading Supervisor in the Crabtree weaving department has retired after thirty five years ' service with the company . |
| 25 | For his part in the crime he was sentenced to ten years and went down with thirteen other accomplices for a total of fifty five years and £675,000 in fines . |
| 26 | Mr relied on the same table to produce a figure of twenty point two five pounds on a life expectancy of fifty five years and accepted a reduction to twenty for the whole life multiplier . |
| 27 | Two men have been jailed for a total of fifty five years in America for shooting a British couple who were on holiday . |
| 28 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 29 | The Steam Festival is a major celebration of twenty five years of preservation at the narrow gauge Leighton Buzzard Railway in Bedfordshire . |
| 30 | They had a mortgage with the Woolwich and an endowment for a fixed period of twenty five years |