Example sentences of "five years [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 2 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 3 | and we do n't see it and it 's disgraceful that for another five years they 're going to get even less and less |
| 4 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 5 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 6 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
| 7 | Mr Lord said : ‘ These young men were wrong to take the law into their own hands but the five years they were given was excessive . |
| 8 | And as an apprentice you , I was a year there for nothing , a ye , half a year for half a crown , half a year for five shillings , and at the end of five years I was earning fourteen shillings . |
| 9 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 10 | And in the last five years he 's too old to do it . |
| 11 | In fact long before the last five years he was copiously producing more or less fantastical inventions with which he comprehensively worked through a natural flair for parody , irony and offbeat musical humour . |
| 12 | Over the next five years he was moved about 20 times . |
| 13 | For four to five years he was in Paris and Rouen , with occasional visits to Italy . |
| 14 | Well she does and the hardest part , I think there is when she comes down in the morning and for five years he was there |
| 15 | Worth £25m over five years it is intended to help run elections , launch newspapers , form political parties and build businesses . |
| 16 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 17 | Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas . |
| 18 | I 'll go in these doors , I was n't surprised , I did n't think they would , but as this guy said afterwards he said whether you do it now or later he said , within the next five years it 's gon na be banned so I think it still will be banned in the end |
| 19 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |