Example sentences of "five [noun] [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | For five hours I had thought about and written about Machu Picchu at the highest level of my consciousness . |
| 2 | Here in five minutes we have combined an art and nature study experience . |
| 3 | Within five minutes he had gone , leaving Edward to try to decipher the hieroglyphics of his prescriptions . |
| 4 | In five minutes she 'd fashioned a ring out of the wire . |
| 5 | After five minutes she had no doubts — that was the man all right . |
| 6 | While Dick Piper was hard pushed to find the five shillings he had borrowed from Harry Pierpoint , the father of the princess who was to become Queen Mary was jibbing at paying tradesmen 's bills which he had allowed to grow to around £20,000 . |
| 7 | ‘ Over the last four or five months we 've become static and a little stale ’ , said a March 1969 editorial under the headline ‘ What we want to hear from you ’ . |
| 8 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 9 | The result of his labours during the five months he had been there is a collection consisting of 500 Birds ; 100 Skeletons , 60 nests , the eggs of alike [ sic ] No. of species , and 3 nine gallon Kegs of specimens in spirits … |
| 10 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 11 | Five kids I 've got and the milkman do n't come till eleven in the morning . |
| 12 | On your own , look at the five guidelines you have written down . |
| 13 | Hundred and fifty , hundred and fifty hundred and twenty five and leave so twenty five grams I 've got ta take out . |
| 14 | Thus if I raise a two-pound weight through a height of five feet I have increased its potential energy by ten foot pounds . |
| 15 | Erm , so what we wanted to do was , we 've had we 're doing quite well with the ov , erm , the five weeks we 've been together but we wan na make sure that you do combat erm a successful pact . |
| 16 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 17 | Mr Koenig , 44 , celebrated with champagne yesterday — and rehired five workers he had been forced to sack from his tool business . |
| 18 | This , I have argued , is evident both at the level of theoretical explanations and in the common-sense models of understanding which are deployed in the five statements I have quoted . |
| 19 | Atkinson ( the manager ) says his bottom-of-the-table team were so bad in one of the five defeats they have suffered in eight First Division games that he found himself joining in with the cries for his dismissal . |
| 20 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 21 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 22 | In our five years we have supported many country issues and charities . |
| 23 | ‘ For the past five years we have been working hard to turn the London International Book Fair into a major event in the publishing calendar , rather than just another exhibition , and I think this year we managed to achieve that aim , ’ reflected LIBF director Brian Bradford at the end of the 22nd fair . |
| 24 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 25 | If the hon. Gentleman followed that matter with any care , he would know that over the past four or five years we have steadily improved and made more generous the cold weather payments . |
| 26 | During the past five years we have identified a total of 12 patients with endoscopically confirmed chronic DU disease unassociated with current or recent H pylori infection ( Table 1 ) . |
| 27 | Five years you 've been at it now ; you should be a concert pianist , and you would be if you had practised . ’ |
| 28 | eighty obviously I 'm not tying you to a figure we just want to get some idea , so seventy , eighty or ninety as maybe , about eighty schemes over five years you 've given estimates for |
| 29 | Is that five years you 've been there ? |
| 30 | Glen Lyons , consultant trichologist at the Philip Kingsley Clinic , says : ‘ In the last five years I 've noticed a dramatic increase in the number of women suffering from hair and scalp conditions , particularly the speeding up of genetic hair loss . |