Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] the five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
| 2 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 3 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 4 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 5 | The ailing peace process had been revived by an Australian plan for large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia , which had been approved by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in mid-January [ see pp. 37186-87 ] , who met again in New York to discuss this plan on Feb. 12-13 . |
| 6 | The period has been increased from the five years prescribed by the 1959 Act . |
| 7 | A few ‘ meanings ’ have been suggested for the five tones that have been introduced , but each tone may have many more such meanings . |
| 8 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |