Example sentences of "five years [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 There were five years between them , but she thought of him as older .
2 Five years with them and he must have learned an awful lot .
3 Five years with him , my love , my dove , my one and truly — I 'd had the nerve to consider myself cured , paroled , out on good behaviour .
4 ‘ That said , it 's been an exciting five years for me and the club .
5 I would make the point that it has taken thirty five years for us to reach this point where we have comprehensive strategy for York , we have battled with er various greenbelt boundaries in the past , I think there has never been erm a total review development plan requirements for the Greater York area , no more of its implications on possible greenbelt boundaries , we now have that and the greenbelt local plan , Southern Ryedale local plans are being progressed on the basis of that strategy , and there are other plans in the pipeline .
6 Now with the pub no longer open and no school , the community shop is the focal point of the village ; but forty five years on they 've shown there really is life after death in Bassett .
7 Forty five years on she 's still deeply attached to the village .
8 ‘ The VAT issue has been very important and that is why we have spent nearly five years on it .
9 Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic .
10 That 's right , yeah , cos I mean he 's , he 's certainly sort of , even though he 's been sort of prisoner , I mean , he 's seen what 's going on and , and he 's had what five years of it ?
11 Bold stuff from a man whose pb of 27:51.76 is almost five years behind him , but Solly 's accentuation is firmly on the positive .
12 A good tour and there might be another five years in him .
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