Example sentences of "[prep] five years ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |
| 2 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 3 | Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) . |
| 4 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 5 | After five years ' service , Mr Rump was ordered to work outside the south of England and , relying on his manager 's promise , he refused . |
| 6 | After five years ' argument , the UK agreed terms . |
| 7 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 8 | At a primary school , Joan , a teacher of five years ' experience , notices two 9-year-old pupils scuffling in the corridor . |
| 9 | The medical superintendent of a hospital had to be a duly qualified medical practitioner of five years ' standing . |
| 10 | SAM LLEWELLYN SAW THE RESULTS OF FIVE YEARS ' WORK |
| 11 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 12 | The alternative for prosecutors is to accept a plea to a non-sexual offence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding which carry maximum penalties of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 13 | Category D , carrying a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment , would cover indecent assaults not involving penetration . |
| 14 | Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 . |
| 15 | The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen . |
| 16 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 17 | With the benefit of five years ' hindsight and analysis , it is possible to understand at least some of the political consequences of that sort of robust egalitarianism . |
| 18 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 19 | On 6 March 1991 her appeal against the tribunal 's findings was dismissed by three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn but they altered her sentence to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 20 | It is considered that an ideal land bank will vary between a minimum of three years ' and a maximum of five years ' stock . |
| 21 | But the horror crash happened in September last year and he was charged with causing death by reckless driving , which carries a maximum of five years ' jail . |
| 22 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 23 | Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity . |
| 24 | The arrangement provided for the repayment of all the principal owed for 1989 and 1990 and half the interest payable for 1989 over a 10-year period with five years ' grace . |
| 25 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 26 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 27 | He was due to oversee Italy 's entry into the European single market next year and to the single currency in five years ' time . |
| 28 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 29 | Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’ |
| 30 | And the share of military expenditure devoted to purchases of new equipment will grow from 23 per cent last year to 39 per cent in five years ' time . |