Example sentences of "[prep] [det] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | chair for that five years and , there were constantly people parking on the pavements , which necessitate you |
| 2 | Because once you have let them go you ca n't begin to get them back for another five years . ’ |
| 3 | Addressing the final Tory news conference later , Mr Major reaffirmed he was confident of winning a majority sufficient to keep him in power for another five years . |
| 4 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 5 | Tolkien had finished The Lord of the Rings by 1949 , though it was refused on his terms and did not begin to appear for another five years , on a non-royalty agreement — to be coolly received by reviewers at home and rapturously welcomed in that heartland of Anglo-Saxon romanticism , the United States of America . |
| 6 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 7 | Fortran8X was laid to rest for another five years before being resurrected and renamed Fortran90 . |
| 8 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 9 | In November 1633 Crowe had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople , though he was unable to take up the appointment for another five years . |
| 10 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 11 | The 1984 economic and security co-operation accord with Libya [ see p. 33435 ] was renewed on Feb. 19 , 1990 , for another five years , but now covered only economic , social and cultural links . |
| 12 | Gary Harriss says he hopes to be an amateur for another five years play in the walker Cup and then turn pro … |
| 13 | After the last recession ended , unemployment climbed onwards and upwards for another five years . |
| 14 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 15 | ‘ The Battle of Britain did n't last long , but I 'm afraid you 've got about another five years of war , Johnny . ’ |
| 16 | Ken was effectively a bishop for some five years , during which he showed great zeal for the teaching of the Catechism and the relief of the poor . |
| 17 | White says Informix has had a passive ( inactive ) wholly-owned subsidiary in Japan for some five years . |
| 18 | They continued for some five years a guerilla war against the employers . |
| 19 | June : tour of Middle East by President Hrawi [ see p. 37548 ] ; December : visit to Beirut by President Chadli Bendjedid of Algeria , the first official visit to Lebanon by a foreign head of state for some five years . |
| 20 | They formed the basis of the LM method which was to follow after another five years painstaking work . |
| 21 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
| 22 | It was during these five years of Clarendon 's first period at the Foreign Office that it seems to have changed its status from the personal domain of the Secretary of State to a professionally staffed institution with its own executive functions and , at the same time , positive steps were taken towards providing suitable accommodation for this new organization . |
| 23 | I would n't have minded looking like that five years ago , come to think of it , or even ten . |
| 24 | As a game it 's ridiculously shallow and dated — we were playing games like this five years ago , and they were pretty undemanding then ! |
| 25 | He was acquitted , but virtually denied any time for family or politics during those five years . |
| 26 | During those five years many more in the village died . |
| 27 | Five years The tenant 's right to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , may be excluded or modified by agreement unless : ( 1 ) during the whole of the five years immediately preceding the date on which the tenant , under a tenancy to which the Act applies is to quit the holding , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if , during those five years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was a successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1958 , s38(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 28 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 29 | And er there was a stage when we came to the , where we really decided we 'd have to earmark different streets , how far we were gon na go in the centre of the town , because people were beginning to get grants for altering houses , and then in another five years time the council , the council were having to buy back these houses to redevelop the area . |
| 30 | Within those five years desktop publishing has , or so it seems , become an integrated part of the electronic office . |