Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 2 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 3 | His followers at the Yorkshire track have raked it in over the last five years with a 1 level stake on all his mounts showing more than 45 to the good . |
| 4 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 5 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 6 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I am 24 now and I am signed up for the next five years . |
| 8 | Next year the event will be held in the Grand Hall of Olympia 1 , which will provide 50% more floor space to be taken up over the next five years . |
| 9 | The costs will be in the region of £30,000 to £60,000 for full optical systems , but entry level systems for hypermedia , CD-ROM , WORM and videodisk technology can be obtained off-the-shelf at the moment , and built up over the next five to ten years . |
| 10 | United had only one fit midfield man , Chris Leadbitter , after the suspension of Tony Dennis but Bailie out for the last five games proved his fitness in the reserves ' 4–1 victory over Aldershot in midweek . |
| 11 | His departure , combined with those of Chris Kearney and Jason Fogerty who both fouled out in the last five minutes , proved crucial to the outcome . |
| 12 | Erm the economic development unit of the borough , Mr Allenby , should know more about it than me , but they have done studies of the firms in Harrogate that can be expected to seek relocation within the borough as they sort themselves out over the next five years , and erm their own calculations for the next five years is more than the county 's whole calculation for the next fifteen years , which suggested to us again that there was a problem about the understanding that the county had on the matter of relocations within Harrogate compared with what was going on locally . |
| 13 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |
| 14 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |