Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth agreed to do our programme after we 'd spent five years gently hammering at her representatives — and of course we were n't the only people after her , the whole world was beating at her door . |
| 2 | The simplest one is the straight-line method , in which depreciation is recorded as a constant proportion of the original cost of the asset over its anticipated life ; for example , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years will be 20 per year . |
| 3 | For example if the writing-down allowance ( rate of depreciation ) is 25 per cent , the depreciation on an asset costing 100 and expected to last five years is determined as follows : |
| 4 | David 's father used to tell him that he believed Oswald was innocent and Paul became hooked five years ago after reading a book . |
| 5 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 6 | Even love , as he had explained five years before in a poem briskly called ‘ Love ’ ( 1966 ) , calls for a lot of cheek : ‘ … the blind persistence/To upset an existence/Just for your own sake . ’ |
| 7 | This was the name of the place which he had visited five years before ; he had gone almost in the role of a pilgrim , since it was there that Nicholas Ferrar established a small Anglican religious community in the seventeenth century — a familial life led in poverty , discipline and prayer which was extirpated by Parliamentary troops in 1646 . |
| 8 | But I moved into cheaper digs near the hospital and did manage to keep the second-hand Austin Seven I had bought five years previously . |
| 9 | Mrs Menzies had died five years before , killed by malaria and stomach trouble from their time in Bengal . |
| 10 | He had spent five years in prison in the early sixties for his opposition to the Shah . |
| 11 | He had spent five years at a English public school , so the lay-out of Anglican cathedrals was not unknown to him . |
| 12 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 13 | Project Eden had eaten five years of his life , and spat them back at him , empty of meaning . |
| 14 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 15 | We must approach our prophet as if he had lived five years ago . |
| 16 | It was a curious mixture of determined work , for many undergraduates had lost five years or more , and of equally certain enjoyment , for the lost years had to be made up in other ways too . |
| 17 | The fact that the American Civil War had lasted five years was overlooked or discounted . |