Example sentences of "[det] [prep] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 2 | He has also worked with Goodman Direct Marketing in London and prior to that for five years with Templetons ( British Carpets Ltd. , as it was then called ) . |
| 3 | Will the Secretary of State acknowledge that , given that after five years his Government have completely failed to establish a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs , he has no credibility in the constitutional debate in Scotland because he has no proposals to make ? |
| 4 | I 've had this for five years . |
| 5 | They had known one another for five years and the accountant , Mr Costello , had not the least reason to think that Joyce was born elsewhere than Galway . |
| 6 | ‘ Have I changed that much in five years ? ’ |
| 7 | Surely that is what perestroika has been about these past five years ? |
| 8 | Roma has n't changed a bit these past five years . |
| 9 | These past five years my pernicious enfeeblement has meant that six months of the year I have had to hibernate , to entomb myself in the disused redoubt beneath Cliff Top , but at last I am free . |
| 10 | If you see , throw it wide open , so it can safely give you lots of ideas , and then you can say to people who are adapters , right now what can we do with these in five years ? |
| 11 | She keeps two hunters here all the year round as well as the grey and I have n't seen a penny in livery in all of five years . |
| 12 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 13 | However , a Consumers ' Association ( CA ) survey in 1990 found that most appliances did n't need any repairs at all over five years . |
| 14 | ( 1984 ) report that for those aged 65 + in 1974 reported activity limitation varied from 61.2 per cent of those with five years ' or less education to 34.2 per cent of those with a college education . |
| 15 | In 1828 , after a period when cattle stealing had been rarely and lightly punished , the Supreme Court in session at Matara convicted a number of men , including some headmen , and sentenced each to five years imprisonment and two hundred lashes . |
| 16 | We 've thrown in lots of youngsters but really the players ’ budget has basically been the same for five years , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Erwin even questions whether there is room for the mainframe in this scenario — ‘ If the mainframe 's price-performance relationship is the same in five years as it is now , it does n't stand a chance ’ . |
| 18 | How many SSDs will be able to say the same in five years ' time ? |