Example sentences of "for the [adj] five " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't want to be mister average so we 'll go for the fifty five . |
2 | We 'll go for the fifty five . |
3 | Although students belong for the entire five years of study to one particular section , much of the teaching is done cross-sectionally . |
4 | I 'll just have to make alternative arrangements for the other five . ’ |
5 | The other patient had values ( 1.37–1.86% ) below the medians for the other five patients with active disease , but still higher than those in remission . |
6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | For the first five months of his life , Christopher was happy , well-adjusted and a trifle fat . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
11 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | She also advised women not to sleep with their boyfriends ‘ for the first five dates ’ . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 ) . |
20 | ( ‘ 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | But it might help your learners if they used some of your techniques for the first five or ten minutes of viewing . |
23 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
24 | For the first five years of cash planning the Treasury put a ‘ pay factor ’ in its cash target . |
25 | ‘ With Amber I felt sick for the first five months , ’ she says . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 ? |
28 | 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 . |
29 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
30 | 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 . |