Example sentences of "[prep] five years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 2 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 3 | And this scenario , we 've got a client who started with er , it looks like a hundred and fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , after five years he had a further need , perhaps erm , a further child or , as I say , er , a lifestyle increase or whatever . |
| 4 | After five years he moved to become manager of a shop in Scarborough before coming to Darlington in 1989 . |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 6 | After five years my two colleagues left , one to return to Canada and the other to become assistant priest at Rangoon cathedral , so I was left to do my best with all the subjects of the curriculum , except for occasional help from visiting clergy or teachers . |
| 7 | Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that , given that after five years his Government have completely failed to establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , he has no credibility in the constitutional debate in Scotland because he has no proposals to make ? |
| 8 | After five years there would be no controls at all . |
| 9 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 10 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 11 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 12 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 13 | The one we see with five years I said to Bet well it 's bloody cheaper than the one she 's , anyway I I I had enough money on my er thing so |
| 14 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 15 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 16 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 17 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 18 | In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink . |
| 19 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 20 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
| 21 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 22 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 23 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 24 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 25 | Within five years we want to be close to 15 per cent . ’ |
| 26 | Within five years there were over 4000 smallholders participating in the scheme , and their marketed output had increased by nearly three times over previous levels . |
| 27 | The first loan society opened for business in 1838 , and within five years there were 150 . |
| 28 | ‘ Within five years I would think we will have a pristine reedbed here again . |
| 29 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 30 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |