Example sentences of "was [verb] for five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The display was delayed for five minutes to allow the queues of cars to park . |
| 2 | The bell was rung for five minutes before both morning and afternoon school . |
| 3 | During each of the stages described above , 15 ml of effluent from the venous catheter was collected for five minutes after the start of infusion . |
| 4 | When Tilden was fifteen , he was apprenticed for five years to Alfred Allchin , a London pharmacist , and attended lectures at the Royal College of Chemistry and the Pharmaceutical Society . |
| 5 | The May play , Tea For Two , was performed for five nights the proceeds from the extra performance going to the Whiston Hospital cancer day- care ward a cheque for three hundred pounds being gratefully received by the hospital . |
| 6 | The eastbound carriageway of the M-Fifty motorway was closed for five hours following the accident . |
| 7 | The case was adjourned for five weeks . |
| 8 | Leslie Thomas , aged 27 , who organised acid house parties in London , was jailed for five years at the Old Bailey yesterday . |
| 9 | Leslie Thomas , aged 27 , who organised acid house parties in London , was jailed for five years and three months at the Old Bailey yesterday . |
| 10 | Mrs Eve Robinson , 43 , a yachting writer , was jailed for five years last October for smuggling hashish at Fuengirola , Costa del Sol . |
| 11 | Tilghman , who was jailed for five years , fined £3,250 , reduced to the ranks and dismissed the service , is now serving his jail term in America . |
| 12 | A SOLDIER who doomed a teenage girl to a living death with a dose of pure heroin was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 13 | A ROBBER who held up banks as a protest against the destruction of the rainforests was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 14 | Ryman , of Spalding , Lincs , admitted manslaughter with diminished responsibility and was jailed for five years . |
| 15 | A YOUNG handbag snatcher was jailed for five years yesterday as a judge signalled the fight back against street crime . |
| 16 | THE father of a child genius was jailed for five years yesterday after a bungled insurance fraud . |
| 17 | Makka , who admitted causing Susan grievous bodily harm , was jailed for five years . |
| 18 | Married sheep-farmer Wadland , 29 , was jailed for five years after admitting making threats to kill and being a public nuisance . |
| 19 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 20 | Shaun Gooch was jailed for five years for causing the deaths and a further three months for driving while disqualified . |
| 21 | AN alcoholic who admitted killing his five months pregnant girlfriend was jailed for five years today . |
| 22 | A SHANKILL Road man who molested and took obscene photographs of children was jailed for five years today . |
| 23 | Another defendant , 25-year-old Noel McKinney , who pleaded guilty to taking part in the robbery , was jailed for five years . |
| 24 | A MALAYSIAN was jailed for five years in the capital , Kuala Lumpur , yesterday for biting off the finger of a policeman who had prevented him stealing a motorcycle . |
| 25 | A Malaysian was jailed for five years for biting off the finger of a policeman who stopped him from stealing a motorcycle . |
| 26 | He was jailed for five years . |
| 27 | Yesterday his attacker , James Brown , 35 , c/o an address at Loanhead Road , Newarthill , Lanarkshire , was jailed for five years . |
| 28 | A DRUG dealer who recruited youngsters to sell ecstasy and cannabis in the Highlands was jailed for five years at the High Court in Inverness yesterday . |
| 29 | A BOARDING house owner who killed his friend when they set fire to the building for the insurance was jailed for five years yesterday . |
| 30 | IN our report of a High Court case at Inverness in which Malcolm Badenoch was jailed for five years after admitting being concerned in the supply of Ecstasy and cannabis , we stated that some of the local youths he recruited to distribute drugs were schoolchildren . |