Example sentences of "five [noun] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes later a plastic bag containing his wet , bloodstained pyjamas and a bottle of antiseptic fell on his bed and he heard Murray 's heavy footsteps retreat down the bare boards of the corridor . |
| 2 | Five minutes later a passenger aircraft appeared overhead and took up a hold at 7,000 feet . |
| 3 | Five months later a device exploded in the Macdonalds restsurant in the town . |
| 4 | Five weeks earlier a bomb had gone off at the entrance to the underground car park below the flat he rented in central Hamburg . |
| 5 | Five days later a general amnesty for prisoners held on security charges was announced . |
| 6 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 7 | By 1800 , Nez Perce buffalo-hunting expeditions to the Yellowstone had become too dangerous , and five years later a council in the Kamiah valley resolved to obtain firearms for the tribe . |
| 8 | This has fallen into disuse , having been used as a military hospital and to sleep troops in transit in the First World War , a Sunday school , a library , and up until five years ago a store for the church gardening equipment . |
| 9 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 10 | Five years ago a parent company acquired a recruitment agency subsidiary . |
| 11 | Some five years ago a few growers in the Nîmes district of Southern France made an attempt to raid the English market by cultivating Moneymaker , a favourite high-yield English commercial tomato . |
| 12 | Five years ago a medical general practitioner might have spent $8,000 a year on an insurance policy that gave him cover for a claim up to $1m . |
| 13 | Twenty five years ago a band of motoring enthusiasts who wanted more than rallying or racing teamed up to start the All Wheel Drive Club … |
| 14 | Five yards away a woman sat almost in profile , a white towelling robe easy on her shoulders . |
| 15 | Five miles away a south-bound freight |