Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | five pound would be a , a , a wage you know , five , ten , five somewhere between five pound and er six pound I would think . |
| 2 | Golden shares will prevent the French water companies that have been investing in the British water industry from bidding outright for five years . |
| 3 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
| 4 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 5 | I have thought so through five years of opposition and 12 years on the Government side . |
| 6 | Only for five minutes . |
| 7 | Only for five years between 1945 and 1983 has approval for the Prime Minister exceeded that of his party by more than 10 per cent , and Harold Wilson , and Harold Macmillan are the only post-war premiers to have retained the support of 50 per cent or more of the electorate for two successive years . |
| 8 | Of these , one , the Office of Wards , survived into the seventeenth century ; another , the powerful Surveyor of the King 's Prerogative , lasted only for five years . |
| 9 | This is expressly ruled out in the Act , but only for five years , although the Conservative Education Association recommended that the period should be ten years . |
| 10 | Now Mr Davies is told the gypsies can stay , but only for five years . |
| 11 | Under the so-called cost floor rule , discounts are restricted according to the level of outstanding debt on the house , but only for five years . |
| 12 | Follow up was annually for five years and then less often for up to seven years four months . |
| 13 | It authorized $5 million annually for five years ( later extended to 1964 ) to support research , provide technical assistance to public and private organizations , and provide for the training of technical personnel . |
| 14 | She nodded grave acknowledgement of all my instructions , then disappeared below for five minutes , eventually returning swathed in one of the vast , padded and multi-layered foul-weather coats , and carrying a mug of coffee . |
| 15 | He was gone perhaps for five minutes . |
| 16 | So for five years , for that is the gestation period recommended for the proposals to prove their effectiveness , tour-day cricket is ordained for the promotion of spin and a wicket-taking approach to bowling , and the enhancement of batsmen 's application and technique . |
| 17 | Hobhouse began keeping a diary during his round-the-world honeymoon in 1893 and continued to do so for five years . |
| 18 | ‘ Now , will everyone act sensibly for five minutes ? ’ he said . |
| 19 | He read another article which said : ‘ The average British couple watches television together for five hours every night and speaks about 150 words per person in conversation . ’ |
| 20 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |
| 21 | Well I , well I say , we 've looked at it slightly different because we 've only , we 've only worked together for five weeks . |
| 22 | Mebendazole is effective if given daily for five days . |
| 23 | Perhaps after five minutes here and there revising those from other lessons so you do n't forget it . |
| 24 | But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack . |
| 25 | There is a danger , however , that number friezes badly used may lead children to relate for instance , five only with five ducks or a domino pattern . |
| 26 | This practical involvement led naturally into five years spent as production manager at the Wandsworth factory , just before M & B moved to Dagenham in Essex in 1934 . |
| 27 | He was a small wizened man , not much above five feet . |
| 28 | It worked out electronically that it took a fish finger less time to defrost than a leg of lamb , and when your designer-label , calorie-counted tagliatelle was ready for eating , it told you so with five bleeps rather than the paltry three offered by the cheaper models . |
| 29 | Five copies of revised and resubmitted manuscripts , labelled with their manuscript numbers are required , together with five copies of a letter detailing the changes made . |
| 30 | Together with five members of SATUCC staff arrested on April 7 , he was expected to be charged with sedition . |