Example sentences of "five years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , the level of judicial training that is provided for Crown Court judges , as for magistrates , is fairly rudimentary , consisting of a three-day seminar for new recruits , and a refresher seminar every five years once they are permanently appointed . |
| 2 | For this reason , many advisers recommend that their clients swop their unit-linked policies to the with-profits type about five years before they retire , provided market conditions are favourable at the time . |
| 3 | This may , however , underestimate the volume of marital breakdown in the earlier years of marriage , for several studies have shown that couples may split up , on average , five years before they actually divorce . |
| 4 | It was to be more than five years before they were able to lead a normal married life . |
| 5 | Anybody seeing this operation in the modern bottling halls of Champagne houses today will find it difficult to imagine that it was in regular use a hundred years ago , yet the two pioneers of the à la glace system , Moët & Chandon and Perrier Jouët , both introduced the process in 1891 , independently of each other , and five years before it was patented by Walfart on 14 November 1896 . |
| 6 | Compared with five years before it was a raging torrent . |
| 7 | Mind you when I said it 's got ta come down it might be five years before it comes down , but you 've got ta think of your outlay first . |
| 8 | If you plant coffee it 's about five years before you can harvest any coffee . |
| 9 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
| 10 | It was only nine years since Charles Sturt had returned , starving and almost blind , from discovering the Darling and the Murray Rivers ; it was to be another five years before he ventured towards the centre of Australia in search of that mythical inland sea . |
| 11 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 12 | She had been diagnosed as dangerous five years before she first struck . |
| 13 | Later when Sophie remarked to no one in particular , ‘ Imagine , it is already five years since we was sitting here in Paris — ’ Lily said : |
| 14 | Those guidelines were produced for the police national computer mark I. It is now almost five years since they were published . |
| 15 | It is certainly five years since they were drawn up . |
| 16 | in the five years since they were first subjected to competition , Swedish Railways have transformed both their efficiency and their performance . |
| 17 | They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left . |
| 18 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 19 | It is some five years since I worked with Mr Edell in his previous incarnation as a lawyer , but he struck me as a man who would do the necessary . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 21 | It was more than five years since she had seen him and she was saying he had n't changed . |
| 22 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 23 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 24 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 25 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 26 | No I 've been here more than five years so they 'll have to give me five week 's notice . |
| 27 | Rachel had n't seen Irene Markham for five years but she was shocked by how much older she looked . |
| 28 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 29 | ‘ I agreed to do the job for five years but I feel that it is taking up too much of my time , ’ he declared . |
| 30 | sorry can , can we get to the question again , want to see if I 've got it right , correct me if I 'm wrong , over the eighty schemes and the five years that you had put forward budgets for all , you had n't included a contingency fund element ? |