Example sentences of "[adj] five years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another asked for the name of a good travel agent , while a third declared : ‘ I do not think I can bear another five years of Andrew Lloyd Webber ; I 'm off . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The Battle of Britain did n't last long , but I 'm afraid you 've got about another five years of war , Johnny . ’ |
| 3 | Recruiting outsiders is a dead duck for the moment ; another five years of failure and the time may yet come . |
| 4 | Yes , forty five years of age . |
| 5 | Although students belong for the entire five years of study to one particular section , much of the teaching is done cross-sectionally . |
| 6 | It was during these five years of Clarendon 's first period at the Foreign Office that it seems to have changed its status from the personal domain of the Secretary of State to a professionally staffed institution with its own executive functions and , at the same time , positive steps were taken towards providing suitable accommodation for this new organization . |
| 7 | I believe that the lessons learnt from my first five years of trial and error could have been imparted to me in a few days by any half-decent panner . |
| 8 | ‘ Woe betide if you die before at least those first five years of service ! |
| 9 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
| 10 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
| 13 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 14 | Their findings were attractively presented in a succession of studies : The first five years of life ( 1940 ) , The child from five to ten ( 1946 ) , and Youth : the years from ten to sixteen ( 1956 ) . |
| 15 | The first five years of life are a period of rapid development . |
| 16 | Psychology has concluded that the most formative period of life is childhood , and in particular the first five years of life . |
| 17 | Foundation skills are acquired in the first five years of life . |
| 18 | Gairdner , who examined a large number of normal children during their first five years of life , observed that at birth only 4% of children had fully retractile prepuces , while in half the prepuce was partially retractile . |
| 19 | Just as the trauma in the first five years of life of a child is forgotten , but appears later in the symptoms of neurotic illness , so the trauma of parricide has been forgotten , but makes its appearance in symptoms which in this case are religious actions and beliefs . |
| 20 | The first five years of life are critically important in shaping every person 's unique individuality . |
| 21 | It is the view of current educational theory , the Jesuits and transactional analysis psychology ( see Chapter 13 ) that attitudes and patterns of thought are formed and , to a large extent fixed , in the first five years of life . |
| 22 | The most important of these , from a behavioural point of view , are held to happen in the first five years of life . |
| 23 | For the first five years of cash planning the Treasury put a ‘ pay factor ’ in its cash target . |
| 24 | All the weeks of reluctantly keeping Yanto at bay , plus having her hand on a male sexual organ for the first time in her twenty five years of life , was too much for Molly . |
| 25 | The Steam Festival is a major celebration of twenty five years of preservation at the narrow gauge Leighton Buzzard Railway in Bedfordshire . |
| 26 | This looks back over twenty five years of preservation , narrow gauge railways in overseas and UK industry and railways at war . |
| 27 | And there 's twenty five years of evidence to show that oats can help reduce excess cholesterol . |
| 28 | This means that members in the Republic of Ireland who are over twenty five years of age and have more than a three year no claim bonus have had no increase in premium for over three years and for all other policyholder there has been no increase for over two years . |
| 29 | One million of them are under twenty five years of age , a disproportionately high number , you 'll agree . |
| 30 | Dwelling on twenty five years of festivity in Brighton — the nature of the town itself and various themes that the festival has adopted , such as Death , Heaven and the Victorians , The Seven Deadly Sins , Phantasmagoria , Myths and Magic … a suitable retrospective theme would be Saints and Sinners . |