Example sentences of "[verb] a five [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents of a girl who was severely handicapped after being starved of oxygen at birth have won a five year battle for compensation . |
| 2 | But the British Government , unconvinced the fastest bikes are more dangerous , has won a five year exemption and an EC Commission promise to produce road safety evidence before Britain will come into line . |
| 3 | A working party of remote sensing specialists last year proposed a five year programme of work costing about £2 million a year . |
| 4 | It would seem to me that if you 've got to prove a case that there that it is the place of last resort , and that place of last resort has got to be at least five thousand dwellings , you are in a place where there is absolute massive growth of demand , and improbably no one has been able to meet a five year supply of housing land , if you are to meet it in the term , if y if those are the criteria to meeting the terms of th of this sort of plan , and in fact what I would submit is that a new settlement solution is very much a part and parcel of a long term solution , and that 's where essentially the County strategy is quite right in proposing a new settlement in the context of the greenbelt , because also greenbelt is a long term solution . |
| 5 | While attempting to jump a five bar gate near Chesham the horse became stuck with its forelegs over the gate and hindlegs behind it . |
| 6 | ‘ I think he must have taken one because two days later I found a five pound note in the box . |
| 7 | Erm this gives an average over say a five year period of about a hundred and forty nine dwellings per annum , if you if you divide that by the household er estimate of something like two point five household size , which is the current sort of level in Cleveland . |
| 8 | Souness starts a five match touchline ban when Liverpool attempt to reverse a 4-2 deficit in the European Cup Winners Cup at Anfield . |
| 9 | He has raced it at the Nurnburg Ring incorporating a five day trip and intends to explore the delights of this new venture to the utmost . |
| 10 | He has written a five page article about his illness in a Darlington medical journal and to celebrate his gradual return to good health he has started to learn the piano . |
| 11 | The prisoner , who is serving a five year sentence for burglary was being moved from Dartmoor to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | In June 1986 he unveiled a five year development programme for the occupied territories , proposing to spend $1,200 million , which depended upon funding from Jordan 's Western friends , particularly the United States and the European Community , and was focused on the development of the rural and commercial sectors , the two areas deemed least supportive of the PLO . |
| 13 | Others braved it , but faced a five hour journey to travel just twenty miles . |
| 14 | We 've got two dogs , we 've got double glazing , and the front door 's got a five lever mortise lock . |
| 15 | Well you 've got a five minute preparation first . |
| 16 | I mean , I 've only got a five pound note . |
| 17 | Frantic first hour action at last year 's Bol — Adrien Morillas ( kawasaki ) leads a five machine factory freight train followed by Herve Moineau ( Suzuki ) , Alex Vieira ( Honda ) , Miguel DuHamel ( Suzuki ) and Thierry Crine ( Kawasaki ) |
| 18 | Drivers with lorries weighing above 7.5 tonnes face a five mile detour around the bridge . |
| 19 | She was told to expect a five hour delay … in the event she endured a nine hour wait … |
| 20 | JON SMITH , head of First Artist Corporation , has been offered a five year contract by the FA to help organise the new England players ’ pool . |
| 21 | They have now received a five page letter exonerating the doctors involved from the general manager Tony Stapleton . |
| 22 | Do we want a five minute break . |
| 23 | And the rating officer was part time with the council , and one day , a rent collector was taken ill , and then I was given a five shilling bag of copper and told to go and collect these |
| 24 | British champion Roberts was given a five day ban ( June 22–26 ) and Quinn two days ( June 22 & 23 ) following the Le Piaget D'Or International . |
| 25 | A , the judge did not explain the use of seven as a multiplier but it not suggested that such a calculation could be done with complete accuracy and using a five percent table , the judge was faced with choosing between seven and eight . |
| 26 | Each new member of staff receives a five page letter from Mr Nitschke explaining what the hotel is about and he still attends the induction programme each Monday morning . |
| 27 | They got a five minute pep talk but they did n't get a sermon . |
| 28 | The Quetzal really requires a five foot tank . |
| 29 | It is available if anybody wants to give a five pound donation to the Fox appeal . |
| 30 | George has shown this to be a satisfactory option , reporting a five year survival of 80% , but this has never been compared in a randomised controlled trial with a treatment regimen . |