Example sentences of "[adv] in five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 2 | So in five minutes , I 'll ask you a question , and that could result in you 're going next month with Dougie Down Under , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 3 | Aline was only in five minutes ago ! ’ |
| 4 | Cytology of smears obtained after insertion of a cytology brush into the biliary tree produced necrotic material only in five patients and cryptosporidial organisms were not isolated from bile samples of eight patients . |
| 5 | He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " . |
| 6 | She was away in five minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 8 | Er and you 'd er they 'd er just bang on the door and , and call you and you had to be downstairs in five minutes . |
| 9 | According to the Museum 's press bureau the canvas was slashed vertically in five places , in several cases along more than ‘ several dozen centimetres ’ while being handled . |
| 10 | I 'd thank them and I 'd be home in five minutes and I could sit in Peter 's room looking at his stuff and chatting with him . |
| 11 | This five-year-old was only beaten once in five outings last season . |
| 12 | Sally Dade trundled backwards and forwards in and out of the kitchen carrying table linen , candlesticks , silver and cut-glassware in a bath of sweat and giggles , while Mrs Stocks , who usually only came once in five weeks for an orgy of washing , wept silently into the pan of onions she was skinning . |
| 13 | With a visit from a Government safety inspector likely only once in five years , the safety/cost conflict is all too easily settled by sacrificing safety to the god of profit . |
| 14 | But erm er I I I I really feel very strongly about this that we all know that democracy does n't just consist of electing a a national parliament once in five years , we all know the strength of democracy comprises that where the complex of local institutions of local bodies made up of people serving in different ways , not necessarily elected , that is what comprises democracy and it is that which is being undermined again by this measure in this in this Bill and I do say to Your Lordships that for the reasons given by both my Noble Friends er Lord and by , by the Noble Lord , Lord Lord er that there has been no demand for this |
| 15 | Passing to our own day , fine editions include the Nonesuch Press issue of 1924–27 , in five volumes with engraved titles and head-pieces by Stephen Gooden ; but many will give pride of place to the Doves Press The English Bible containing the Old Testament and the New , published in 1905 , also in five volumes . |
| 16 | James Zinreich and colleagues at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore have used the sensor arm successfully in five operations to remove deep-seated brain tumours , and they are now adapting the system for sinus surgery . |
| 17 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 18 | Published eventually in five volumes on fossil mammalia , mammalia , birds , fish , and reptiles , respectively , the Zoology , openly claimed for science some of the many new species that had been named from the Beagle 's collection . |
| 19 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself somewhere in five years ' time . |
| 20 | Andrew Jones and Ray Merry experimented with air-filled kite shapes as students and after many frustrations , evolved the Flexifoil which like the Powell , has stood the test of time and is still in production now in five sizes , from 122cm(48in) up to 393cm ( 154.5 in ) span and in many colours . |
| 21 | Be-there in five minutes . ’ |
| 22 | Anybody who has operated in business for more than five years knows that invariably in five years the business is not all right unless something has been done about it . |
| 23 | Not even in five years from now … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Meet me back here in five minutes . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Meet you down here in five minutes . ’ |
| 26 | Here in five minutes we have combined an art and nature study experience . |
| 27 | Well if they 're not here in five minutes I 'm going . |
| 28 | If you hang about after 10pm they come over and say ‘ If you lot ai n't out of here in five minutes , you 're nicked , the lot of you . ’ |
| 29 | And if you 're not out of here in five seconds flat , I 'm going to call the police . |
| 30 | Bunce has done well in five games , with two braces of tries against Ireland , and may yet play something like the Joe Stanley role . |