Example sentences of "five year [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time it might be great and five years later I think , ‘ Why did I do that ? ’ but sometimes it 's the only way of finding something out . |
| 2 | Five years later she was to be found lecturing on her expedition to the Gabon , she had climbed Mount Cameroon , and her Travels in West Africa was published to consolidate her reputation as a ‘ fish and fetish ’ expert . |
| 3 | People have been diagnosed with cancer etcetera , erm , in fact at the convention yesterday , they had some clients on the stage , one lady had been diagnosed with breast cancer , she got a pay-out from living assurance , five years later she 's been cleared , and , and she 's thrilled to bits about it . |
| 4 | Five years later it was modified as the Trionic Attak , and some boots were given a ‘ sprung ’ , or slightly curved sole — a simple device that makes for far easier walking , first used in Brasher Boots . |
| 5 | Five years later it had been reduced to £212,000 . |
| 6 | In 1980–1 , in the first Test to be played on his home ground in Antigua , there was never any doubt that he was going to mark the occasion with a century , and , as we shall see , when England returned five years later he marked that occasion in the most spectacular fashion . |
| 7 | As he prepared to leave office five years later he warned the nation to ‘ guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex . ’ |
| 8 | Tony Revell began experimenting with guitars at the age of fourteen , and five years later he landed a position working with Chris May and Andy Preston , refining his skills while turning out Overwater electrics . |
| 9 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 10 | Five years later he took up the project again under the new title of Church Dogmatics . |
| 11 | Five years later he was judged by the hospital staff and by the Home Secretary , who has to agree to the fitness of certain patients held for indeterminate periods , to be discharged on trial leave . |
| 12 | In 1885 he became university lecturer in advanced invertebrate morphology and five years later he became superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology . |
| 13 | Five years later he was reported missing in the fighting around Leningrad and the family never saw him again . |
| 14 | He raged : ‘ I 'm hurt and angry that after five years here I heard I was sacked on my car radio . ’ |
| 15 | The anomaly is increased by the fact that , under the present law , two young men under 21 who consensually commit ‘ gross indecency ’ are both liable to conviction for the offence : the rule in Tyrrell is inapplicable here , but the maximum penalty is two years ' imprisonment where the offender is under 21 , compared with five years where he is over 21 . |
| 16 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 17 | Because after all critics will say if representative democracy is n't the best practical realization of democracy but simply a sham , after all remember Russo 's comments on England , the people of England think they 're free but they 're mistaken , they 're free once every five years when they elect their rulers . |
| 18 | So when I 'm seeing clients mainly at the end of a , of a three year , fixed-rate deposit , again at five years when we get a National Savings maturing , and so on and so forth . |
| 19 | The programme , which was valued at £43m over five years when it was launched in 1989 , has had its budget cut to £29m . |
| 20 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 21 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 22 | Then I had four or five years when I was there . |
| 23 | ‘ I could go to see Lewis Watts , he was my dad 's apprentice for five years when I was a little sprout like you just learning the trade . |
| 24 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 26 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 27 | Five years ago they invited me to go and spend Christmas with them . |
| 28 | Five years ago they took the 1927 Grand National Winners Cup . |
| 29 | ‘ Then five years ago we woke up and decided to sell washing machines instead . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In that case I suggest we stick to it , because I have the strong feeling that if we start digging up what happened five years ago we will start arguing , and that wo n't help anybody . ’ |