Example sentences of "five year [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For each item included in creditors due after one year , disclose separately : amounts payable otherwise than by instalments more than five years hence amounts payable by instalments any of which are due more than five years hence , and the total of such instalments |
| 2 | There were 4,000 reports to the National Criminal Intelligence Service last year and in the last five years over £500,000 in cash has been seized . |
| 3 | Five years later Sykes turned the knife even further : ‘ You remember that salmon I caught on the Ayr in 1962 ? |
| 4 | In 1774 Joseph Priestley [ q.v. ] , one of the leading chemists of the day , referred to him as ‘ a good chymist ’ and five years later Erasmus Darwin [ q.v. ] , who knew Warltire as ‘ a celebrated itinerant teacher of natural philosophy ’ , sent his son to Etruria to join the sons of Josiah Wedgwood [ q.v. ] in private chemical tuition with him . |
| 5 | Thirty five years later servicemen who were forced to witness the test say they are still suffering physical and mental side-effects.So far the government has consistently denied a positive link between the two . |
| 6 | It was published in 1918 , over four hundred years after the conquest , and five years later Vallejo began his miserable exile in Paris . |
| 7 | Since having her children five years previously Eleanor was unable to shift the stone ( 14lb/6.5kg ) in weight she had gained . |
| 8 | Five years ago Bill and Angela Page were faced with a hard but inescapable mathematical fact : 23 rooms into nine wo n't go . |
| 9 | Five years ago Margot , 43 , was flying high opposite Christopher Reeve in Superman IV . |
| 10 | Five years ago rugby club chiefs were in favour of selling but the cricket club committee was firmly against . |
| 11 | And so five years ago Lesley , one of the seven children of Colin and Lillian Harrison , joined the Merseyside force . |
| 12 | Five years ago DIP entered its second phase , thanks to the development of software that not only handled image storage and retrieval but actively managed the routing and movement of images around an organisation . |
| 13 | Five years ago Vauxhall was losing money hand over fist and relations between management and workers was at a low ebb . |
| 14 | Five years ago companies that bought their personal computers sight unseen through the mail were few and far between . |
| 15 | Before entering the motor trade five years ago Mrs Taylor sold insurance . |
| 16 | Five years ago the prospect of music biz power-brokers scraping over the rights to the Reading Festival would have been laughable , but then five years ago Reading was laughable , light years removed from the vital , fun , rather homely popstravaganza it is today . |
| 17 | The uncertainty is illustrated by the fact that even five years ago Vodafone profits were forecast at around £40million by the end of the decade . |
| 18 | Five years ago Mr Titherington 's MP Douglas Hurd outlined its case in a letter . |
| 19 | Five years ago Mr Deighton led an SOC expedition up Kilimanjaro , the highest mountain in Africa . |
| 20 | FIVE years ago LASMO Pakistan was formed , so with great pride the office has now celebrated its first long service awards . |
| 21 | Here we go again I thought ! ’ — ROGER BIDGOOD ( Newport centre ) on being given his first cap after losing his original chance five years ago thanks to bad weather . |
| 22 | Five years ago Hamish Fraser asked Lossiemouth ladies ' guild to supply him with a collecting box to take to work on oil rig MCP 01 in the North Sea . |
| 23 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 24 | Five years ago OAG cost Robert Maxwell $150m . |
| 25 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |