Example sentences of "for the [num ord] five " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
2 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
3 | For the first five months of his life , Christopher was happy , well-adjusted and a trifle fat . |
4 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
5 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
6 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
7 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
8 | Many more farmers would be willing to undertake conversion if the Government were prepared to provide subsidies for the first five years to help re-equip . |
9 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
10 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
11 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
12 | She also advised women not to sleep with their boyfriends ‘ for the first five dates ’ . |
13 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
14 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
15 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
16 | Soon after your arrival you 're interviewed and put on what 's called ‘ house assessment ’ — house cleaning for the first five weeks — whilst the screws work out what would be the best work for you . |
17 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
18 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
19 | For the first five years of cash planning the Treasury put a ‘ pay factor ’ in its cash target . |
20 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
21 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
22 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
24 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
25 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
26 | It should be noted that for the purposes of our valuation we have used a conservative forecast of £ [ B ] million , reflecting a below target performance for the first five months of the financial year . |
27 | The " Paris Club " of industrialized creditor countries would write down rescheduled debt by two-thirds instead of one-third ; they would deal with the total debt of an eligible country in one operation instead of in one-year maturities ; interest payments would be capitalized for the first five years of rescheduling , with debt repayments linked to the debtor nation 's export capacity ; and the repayment period would be extended from 14 to 25 years . |
28 | By the end of 1990 it stood at 121 per cent , and the aim of reducing this to less than 70 per cent in 1991 appeared to be succeeding as the inflation rate for the first five months of the year was 38.9 per cent , compared with 84.5 per cent in the corresponding period in 1990 . |
29 | For the first five days she was not mentioned , and Edward was treated with polite caution . |
30 | Patients were interviewed monthly for the first five months and every three months thereafter . |