Example sentences of "[coord] five years ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’
2 Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance .
3 In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation .
4 You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time .
5 It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen .
6 No one denies that if the story became available it would be seized but , while an autobiography would have been an automatic bestseller at the time of his release , would it still be wonderful if one or five years ' time ?
7 Similarly , the entry cost for new mini-computers used to be $25 million and five years ' work , but has now fallen to below $5 million and one year .
8 However , even without the Mowatt extension , one might ask whether the distinction between intention ( section 18 ) and recklessness ( section 20 ) is so wide in crimes of violence , often impulsive reactions to events , as to warrant the difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment .
9 In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm .
10 Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] .
11 On Feb. 25 , two alleged GKN members , Imran Hasan and Hasbi Abdullah were sentenced to seven and five years ' imprisonment respectively on national security grounds .
12 Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment .
13 Martin Siegel , a former takeover specialist at Kidder Peabody and Co. , was sentenced to two months in prison and five years ' probation on June 15 .
14 As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time .
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