Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has she been employed by you into the QW for at least two years ( full-time ) or for five years ( part-time ) ? |
| 2 | Selecting controls from delivery registers also enabled matching for mother 's age ( plus or minus five years ) , child 's sex and date of birth ( plus or minus six months ) , district health authority of birth , and residence in the study area at the time of diagnosis . |
| 3 | Today 's edition alleges that for five years Declan ‘ Beano ’ Casey , 39 , was the security services ' most valued double agent . |
| 4 | correct , I would estimate that during five years of any Parliament as we see earnings increase perhaps an additional 500,000 people would be swept into this disreputable proposal from the Labour Benches . |
| 5 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 6 | It also led to some staff cuts and by the spring of 1989 the leaders of the fusion programmes were anticipating that after five years of no increases to match inflation , Congress would make a twenty million dollar cut in the fusion budget . |
| 7 | He raged : ‘ I 'm hurt and angry that after five years here I heard I was sacked on my car radio . ’ |
| 8 | There have been some very diverse schemes , including a wine company that after five years would offer investors a taste of the booty . |
| 9 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 10 | The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service ! |
| 11 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 12 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 13 | With some industry experts predicting that within five years more people will be sending and receiving faxes through their PC than with stand-alone fax machines it is no wonder that software developers are examining ways of cashing in on this increasing market . |
| 14 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 15 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |
| 16 | Mr Damant predicts that in five years ' time , if the ASB pursues unfudgeability rather than ‘ correct accounting principles ’ , it will be faced with dissatisfaction because accounts will not show a true and fair view . |
| 17 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 18 | Because how does Philip know that in five years ' time , I 'm not going to ring him up and say , hey you know when you recommended me to invest my money in the Japanese fund , well it 's just gone through the bottom of the market . |
| 19 | Er the County Council demonstrates that in five years the Hertfordshire erm etc , erm now I think Chairman we do have erm a pretty good strategy into the consultation rather better than the one for the erm current year which was started erm by the previous erm administration . |
| 20 | It is useful to know what other models can do since microcomputers have a limited life and it may be that in five years time , the librarian and teachers will be involved in seeking a replacement for the existing microcomputer . |
| 21 | After Nasser , he says , his themes seemed to refer to a vanished society and for five years Mahfouz wrote no books . |
| 22 | Yesterday they each sentenced him — for six years for leading a gang rape attack on the 14-year-old , and for five years consecutively for raping and robbing the older girl . |
| 23 | She kept up her musical links until her death and for five years was resident musician at the Royal Hotel , Clacton . |
| 24 | Membership for the world 's biggest junior stamp club must be the world 's biggest bargain ; £3 for two years — and for five years , just £5* ! |
| 25 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 26 | Previously , he worked as a manager with Goodman Carpets of Kettering and for five years with C. F. Harrison in Northampton . |
| 27 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 28 | But they will be allowed to buy stakes of up to 15 per cent and after five years the barriers will come down . |
| 29 | ‘ We were doing horn-led , jump blues and after five years of doing that stuff , I got tired of it . |
| 30 | Thus , a higher-rate taxpayer who invests £10,000 in autumn 1992 should receive an income tax refund of £4,000 around March 1993 and after five years , in October 1997 , should pocket £12,000 . |