Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 2 | Efforts to procure his extradition , which have been going on for five years , and which seemed for a time to have been successful , have now been thwarted , at least for the moment . |
| 3 | Is he aware that the negotiations have been going on for five years , that we must have a replacement for the multi-fibre arrangement that will enable our textiles to penetrate the markets of countries which do not allow any textiles in and those with tariffs of 200 per cent. , and that even the United States has a tariff of 36 per cent . |
| 4 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 5 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 6 | I have thought so through five years of opposition and 12 years on the Government side . |
| 7 | Only for five years between 1945 and 1983 has approval for the Prime Minister exceeded that of his party by more than 10 per cent , and Harold Wilson , and Harold Macmillan are the only post-war premiers to have retained the support of 50 per cent or more of the electorate for two successive years . |
| 8 | Of these , one , the Office of Wards , survived into the seventeenth century ; another , the powerful Surveyor of the King 's Prerogative , lasted only for five years . |
| 9 | This is expressly ruled out in the Act , but only for five years , although the Conservative Education Association recommended that the period should be ten years . |
| 10 | Now Mr Davies is told the gypsies can stay , but only for five years . |
| 11 | Under the so-called cost floor rule , discounts are restricted according to the level of outstanding debt on the house , but only for five years . |
| 12 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
| 13 | It authorized $5 million annually for five years ( later extended to 1964 ) to support research , provide technical assistance to public and private organizations , and provide for the training of technical personnel . |
| 14 | So for five years , for that is the gestation period recommended for the proposals to prove their effectiveness , tour-day cricket is ordained for the promotion of spin and a wicket-taking approach to bowling , and the enhancement of batsmen 's application and technique . |
| 15 | Hobhouse began keeping a diary during his round-the-world honeymoon in 1893 and continued to do so for five years . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , ’ they continue , ‘ we 've been reading your columns and we 're just a little bit worried that you might mean it when you say that the European Community is a fraudulent delusion ; the German economy is kaput ; the French are morally bankrupt ; racism is becoming endemic ; America 's had it ; Britain 's in for five years of total chaos and the middle-classes will soon be taking to the streets . |
| 17 | To benefit from tax-free interest , you must leave your money in for five years . |
| 18 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |
| 19 | The contract ensures that if you decide to cash in after five years in April 1997 , you will not get less than the unit price on offer in April 1996 . |
| 20 | This practical involvement led naturally into five years spent as production manager at the Wandsworth factory , just before M & B moved to Dagenham in Essex in 1934 . |
| 21 | It can do so only within five years from becoming aware of the location of the object and the identity of the possessor , and within thirty years of the illegal removal . |
| 22 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 23 | PRESIDENT Fidel Castro has said he would like to step down in five years if Cuba 's faltering economy improves . |
| 24 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 25 | During this transition , the retirement age was brought down by five years , staffing numbers were reduced , the unprofitable office in Edinburgh was closed , procedures were modified and attitudes changed , a research department was established , some shuffling of the partners took place , and the youngest of them , Nigel Humphreys , was appointed Managing Director . |
| 26 | After five terms I moved into Surrey to become head of the history department in Wallington County Grammar School for Boys and to work away for five years at doing what grammar schools were most proud of : helping boys to win awards at Oxford or Cambridge , urging ever-growing numbers of them successfully through public examinations , encouraging that sense of discipline and order which characterized the traditional Public and grammar school , wearing a gown , sustaining the prefect system . |
| 27 | And when I arrived home in England , after being away for five years , my wife and children were delighted to see me , because they had thought I was dead . |
| 28 | Well we got married in nineteen forty one and I lived first of all in Sussex where erm my mother was living because my husband went into the Air Force and he was erm away for five years , well we had a lot of bombing in the early part of the war in Sussex and my father eventually came here to Harlow thinking we were getting away from it and of course we came right into the V er what was it ? |
| 29 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 30 | It was not until five years had elapsed that track lifting began in earnest , and this was only in fits and starts . |