Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] for five " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 2 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 3 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |
| 5 | No , they 're not really , you got a stand by , you got it for eight fifty , and cos we 're students , instead of eight fifty , we got it for five . |
| 6 | So I had him for five hours , normally from 6 pm to 11 pm . ’ |