Example sentences of "[coord] for the [adj] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 2 | The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare . |
| 3 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 4 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 5 | As an example , if there is a gain on the sale of a property owned equally for fifteen years , occupied for the first ten years by both husband and wife and for the last five years by only the wife , there is complete exemption on the one-half share occupied by the wife throughout , and a chargeable gain to the extent of two-fifteenths of the gain on the other half ( the chargeable years being the five years after occupation had ceased less the 36 months ) . |
| 6 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |