Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | and then jegs and after a few five minutes |
| 2 | Christine has just been given the all clear … but only after an intensive five weeks of radiation treatment . |
| 3 | The approved income of the company will be exempt from tax for a period of up to five years with a possible extension of a further five years after that . |
| 4 | With the closure of a further five mills in the first half of the current year major cost savings will be realised . |
| 5 | They held each other 's look for a long five seconds . |
| 6 | The ambience Iona Abbey aims to provide in terms of welcome and acceptance is one she hopes to recreate in her own home : ‘ When people live together , they share life-stories over the washing-up , ’ says the woman poised to play hostess to up to eight guests , for a possible five days every week . |
| 7 | The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years . |
| 8 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 9 | Diana waited outside the main entrance of Great Ormond Street holding a clutch of excited little hands for a good five minutes before the Wishing Well song , which pop star Boy George had specially recorded for the appeal , struck up ; and then Father Christmas , in the shape of a heavily disguised Jimmy Tarbuck , juddered round the corner on his sleigh , pulled by two little white ponies . |
| 10 | She was in there for a good five minutes crashing around and swearing occasionally . |
| 11 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 12 | For a good five years , round then , I was n't speaking to your dad , or your Gran . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ had topped the UK charts for a remarkable five weeks , selling 698,000 copies . |
| 14 | Remove lining and bake for a further five minutes . |
| 15 | He spent four hours with the therapist who administered it to him and supervised his acid trip , and he remained under a structured hallucinatory influence for a further five hours at home . |
| 16 | They can be held for 48 hours without charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and for a further five days at the discretion of the Home Secretary . |
| 17 | At the conclusion of the liturgy , Bishop O'Brien presented Faculty Certificates to 150 Ministers who were recommissioned for a further five years service . |
| 18 | April 1991 : Kenneth Baker reappoints Hussey , now 67 , for a further five years . |
| 19 | All such data remain confidential , if requested , for a period of five years , renewable on application for a further five years . |
| 20 | His contract with the Royal College , due to end in September 1953 , was renewed for a further five years after that date . |
| 21 | The Minister may say that the trusteeship can be renewed for a further five years , but I see no reason why he has resisted the expert opinion of the trustees and directors of the museums . |
| 22 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 23 | The fourth congress of the PCT on July 30 , 1989 , re-elected him as central committee chairman and thus as head of state for a further five years . |
| 24 | The ban on political activity imposed when the NRM came to power was extended for a further five years in March 1990 . |
| 25 | Japan and the United States agreed on June 4 , after some years of often acrimonious debate , to extend for a further five years the deal reached in 1986 on the easing of access to the Japanese market for US manufacturers of chips for use in computer assembly . |
| 26 | Watmoughs have just secured the contract to print The Sunday Times magazine in Scarborough for a further five years . |
| 27 | The surprise , the shout , the authority in his command kept them pinned in their chairs for a vital five seconds . |
| 28 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 29 | Cursing and gasping , he lay there for a full five minutes , the surprisingly intact fish by his side . |
| 30 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |