Example sentences of "[adv] a five-year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latest word from the grapevine is that IBM Corp 's 3390-9 disk drive may be put back to June 1 or June 8 ( CI No 2,165 ) , and there is a certain lack of confidence that the thing will be an easy sell given that it is significantly slower than the lower capacity drives , making it unsuitable for most leading edge mainframe applications ( CI No 2,165 ) : the conspiracy theorists conjecture that it is not a product that the sales force and the market actually want , one that could have been developed simply to respond to something a competitor was planning but in the end never launched , but that it has cost sufficient to develop that to write off the effort now would leave a nasty hole in AdStar Inc 's balance sheet — much better to put the thing out in the confidence that some users will bite , and write the work off over perhaps a five-year product life . |
| 2 | Do you include a proper historical record ( usually a five-year summary ) ? |
| 3 | Hopefully a five-year sentence will act as a deterrent to others . ’ |
| 4 | Generale de Service en Informatique SA , France 's sixth-largest software and systems engineering firm , announced yesterday a five-year facilities management contract with Picard Surgeles SA , a retailer of frozen foodstuffs , which aims to automate its distribution system . |
| 5 | As the chart shows , it is not a four-week or even a five-year problem . |
| 6 | They want at least a five-year transition period before Europe 's exchange rates are locked for good . |