Example sentences of "within five [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Version 7 has mouse support , pull-down menus and dialogue boxes — within five minutes you can get to grips with most of the commands you need . |
| 2 | I stood at the front door and it was around my ankles , within five minutes it was around my knees , ’ said Joanne . |
| 3 | Within five minutes he had gone , leaving Edward to try to decipher the hieroglyphics of his prescriptions . |
| 4 | A drink was thrust into her hand and within five minutes she was being passed from group to group as though she were the prize exhibit ; asked numerous questions she did n't know how to or have time to answer ; told endless tales of this person or that person ; until eventually , somewhat bewildered , she ended up in the bar with someone called Patrick who began regaling her with tales of old Ireland . |
| 5 | Some small captives become pets but within five years they are potentially dangerous and have to be put behind bars . |
| 6 | Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year . |
| 7 | With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear , the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether . |
| 8 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 9 | Within five years we want to be close to 15 per cent . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Within five years I would think we will have a pristine reedbed here again . |
| 11 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 12 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 13 | Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money . |
| 14 | Some people might go for your head to begin with but within five years you 'll find that you are the most popular person around . |
| 15 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 16 | Others are moving into the frame and within five years it is possible that more than half of all lamb will be sold overseas . |