Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 2 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 3 | In the whole of 1991 , 139,810 diesel models were registered , representing an 8.78pc penetration more than double the figure achieved five years ago . |
| 4 | At Speech Day in that year the Headmaster was able to announce that from September the School would be fully co-educational , in fulfilment of the plan announced five years earlier . |
| 5 | Copper-plate engravings were first used for book illustration in England in 1540 , when Richard Jonas published a translation of a German work on childbirth , and the first copper-plate title-page came five years later , with Thomas Gemini 's Compendiosa totius anatomie delineato . |
| 6 | Another discovery came five years ago , when Sarah spotted a 16-year-old schoolgirl named Miranda Morton walking along London 's Battersea Park Road . |
| 7 | All had to prepare a Development Plan describing five years ' improvement to bring about secondary education for all . |
| 8 | The seventh oldest club in the country , Darlington have been in Durham and Northumberland Division One five divisions below National Division Four since league rugby began five years ago . |
| 9 | Alex Bennett , 14 , also of Nova Centurion , shaved 0.05sec off the British junior record for the 50m backstroke set five years ago . |
| 10 | No doubt intelligent 20-year-olds have become successful foreign exchange dealers within a year , but to train a graduate-level engineer takes five years or more . |
| 11 | The Slater Foundation started five years ago with three members . |
| 12 | My involvement with separatism lasted five years , but in a very real sense it will never leave me . |
| 13 | The eldest sister died five years ago and up to the age of eighty-two she drove her Aston Martin from Duns to Glasgow , twice a week at eighty miles an hour , to take an interest in the family business . |
| 14 | Man gets five years for 12-in knife attack |
| 15 | However , the significant fact was that this incident took five years to come to court . |
| 16 | In the week before polling day Kaunda released a report complied five years earlier on drug traffickers in which leading figures in the MMD were implicated . |
| 17 | Scot given five years for rape |
| 18 | The ISA project took five years to complete and involved examining basic auditing principles and essential procedures to ensure that ISAs adequately addressed IOSCO members ' concerns . |
| 19 | The group is strongest in the resilient Midlands and a land bank stretching five years is good security . |
| 20 | The CDP 's 1971 statement suggested five years as the period within which some of the polytechnics could realistically hope to obtain a charter . |
| 21 | His downfall came five years later and the new owners were the Denison family who eventually took the name of the village for their title . |
| 22 | Walsh — whose ‘ bad boy ’ reputation began five years ago when he received a record nine-match ban after an incident that left Shrewsbury 's David Geddis with a broken jaw — returns today for the visit of Brentford . |
| 23 | A supplementary legal aid scheme started five years ago in Hong Kong was helping personal injury litigants in the middle income trap , the conference heard . |
| 24 | In return for this anonymity and help with the setting up of a new life , the Legion demanded five years ' service , wherever they chose to send you . |
| 25 | Construction took five years , under a team led by Ron Clifford . |
| 26 | The system took five years to co-develop with partner Redtenbacher GmbH of Stuttgart , Germany . |
| 27 | Although surgery is cited as the main hope for cure , only 7% of patients treated by radical surgery survive five years and the median survival of these patients is only eight months . |
| 28 | Guppy gets five years for gems robbery fraud |