Example sentences of "[prep] five years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now we 're doing a little bit of reversion and it is much regret by God for five years I have negotiated budgets with the Labour group against intense opposition to Conservatives and central government to improve the services in Oxfordshire . |
| 32 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 33 | For five years he consequently exercised a remarkable monopoly of the national copper market . |
| 34 | ‘ For five years he saving shah-al-arhee for daughter 's wedding . ’ |
| 35 | 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 |
| 36 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 37 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 38 | For four to five years he was in Paris and Rouen , with occasional visits to Italy . |
| 39 | Spain and Portugal stressed during the proceedings their willingness to continue to act as bridges for Latin American access to the European Communities ; the Spanish government also announced that during the next four to five years it would invest over US$14,000 million in the Latin American region . |
| 40 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |