Example sentences of "five years [adv] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissenting minorities were driven out by religious difficulties : Roger Williams left Boston within a year of arriving , though it was not until five years later that he made his way south through the dense woodlands to Rhode Island to launch the first settlement based on principles of religious toleration in 1636 . |
| 2 | She gave birth in 1970 to a boy whom she named Caleb James , but it was not until five years later that she said Nicholson was the father . |
| 3 | It was not really until the emergence of a more holistic Green politics four or five years ago that we began to see how powerful are the connections between those two apparently separate sets of concerns . |
| 4 | Over the years we did n't have quite so much work to do with recording which tyre was on which bus because he took it over , but it was right up until I retired in , well five years ago that we were paying tyres that way . |
| 5 | It was , ironically enough , at a conference of headteachers about five years ago that I first heard this now familiar piece of Machiavellian wisdom quoted by an HMI . |
| 6 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 7 | Margaret Thatcher had kept her word given over five years before that I would not lose out by my enforced move to Transport and I was now in charge of the biggest spender and largest employer in Whitehall . |