Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received five years of general secondary education and two years at computer training school . |
| 2 | By the the I served five year then and I left that and I went into corporation transport which was tramcars then . |
| 3 | For another five years work , so I served five years in Germany too as a , as a miner . |
| 4 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 7 | I did fucking , I did five years of normal paperwork and plus for the last three years I did double as well cos I got kicked out of french , so I was in metal work like , four hours of metal work every week the last three three years and , cos I was like nine times out of ten I was the only bloke there , the er , the er metal work teacher got on really well , he was showing me all sorts of stuff and I never got to do the actual metal work lesson |
| 8 | She took five years to do it , five years of remissions and declines and suffering borne with no patience whatever . |
| 9 | Her only concession to controversy is the huge 12ft by 10ft portrait of her nude , painted by artist Richard Rowley , who she married five years ago after a 10-week romance . |
| 10 | I 'm , er , the director of the National Osteoporosis Society and we started five years ago and as Helen said just now , we are in the business of informing women , not saying all women should be going on hormone replacement therapy ! |
| 11 | The impact of this trim and dynamic team who worked together so amicable , resulted in keeping the group together to produce further items , although after a subsequent audition in 1989 they became five years younger and are now our 50+ Team . |
| 12 | But they divorced five years later . |
| 13 | This week , they play three nights at London 's Town & Country Club , which is n't bad , but it 's a high step down from the dizzy heights of packing out Wembley for several shows on the trot as they did five years ago when they were one of the biggest bands in Europe . |
| 14 | Although the reduction in coca growing in this part of Bolivia has been significant , drug dealers in the Andes have the same easy access to coca today as they had five years ago . |
| 15 | Yeah , well Mike it comes down to experience if they had five years of |
| 16 | THE appointment of Tom Graveney as match referee for next year 's Test and one-day series between West Indies and Pakistan could be blocked because of a comment he made five years ago . |
| 17 | Wounded at Dunkirk he spent five years as a POW in Germany . |
| 18 | Philip Larkin spent his last years as a university librarian at Hull , where he administered but did not teach ; John Wain resigned a lectureship at Reading to live in Oxford , where he spent five years as a professor of poetry ; Iris Murdoch , though willingly leaving an Oxford teaching post in her middle years , has lived there , or near it , married to a professor ; and David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury either retired early or went part-time . |
| 19 | He spent five years in the top job , a hectic period which embraced not only the collapse of communism in eastern Europe , but , at the very end , the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War . |
| 20 | He spent five years in a prison camp next to a camp where Ukrainian women were held , and he and one of the captives , Maria , fell in love over the barbed wire . |
| 21 | Educated at Eton , he served five years in the 1st Foot Guards , entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1798 , and Peterhouse , Cambridge , in 1799 ( MA , 1801 ) . |
| 22 | Elected in 1841 to the first legislative assembly of Upper and Lower Canada as an independent representing Huron , he served five years before resigning in 1846 to become superintendent of the Lachine canal and publish his Recollections of the American War , 1812–1814 . |
| 23 | In 1828 he began five years as an apprentice apothecary with the Apothecaries ' Company of London . |
| 24 | The Irish national lottery has created 19 millionaires since it started five years ago . |
| 25 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 26 | He died five years ago but the museum 's only just been finished on the Mall below Capitol Hill . |
| 27 | but it took five years |
| 28 | I was talking to her and I said do you work ? and she said no I do n't and she said my children are I V F children In vitro fertilization , so I said how come ? , how fascinating , she said it was n't very fascinating I can assure you , she said it took five years to have them , well she put plainly they pioneered it down there did n't they ? |