Example sentences of "[noun] for the first five " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 3 | Many more farmers would be willing to undertake conversion if the Government were prepared to provide subsidies for the first five years to help re-equip . |
| 4 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 5 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 6 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
| 7 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
| 8 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |
| 9 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 10 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 11 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 12 | Temperature records for the first five months matched those of last year ( 1990 ) , the hottest year on record , despite unpleasant weather . |
| 13 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 14 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |