Example sentences of "five years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one British hospital where underwater delivery was pioneered , almost three hundred and fifty births have taken place over five years without problems in the special pool . |
| 2 | Five years under Deng Xiaoping appears to have started the mighty machine rolling in the right direction again but , in energy terms there are a number of problems to be overcome which are mainly to do with lack of adequate capital investment and resources management . |
| 3 | WOMEN face having to work an extra five years under retirement age plans put to the Government yesterday . |
| 4 | Using whatever form of analysis you consider appropriate comment on the financial risk profile of Belper Ltd for the five years under review . |
| 5 | He undertook only one expedition , travelling for five years aboard Beagle with all the modern conveniences of the day , and spent the next forty-five years as a hypochondriacal recluse in his English country mansion , churning out voluminous erudite papers for the scientific establishment , while privately pursuing his haunting suspicion that species diverged to become other species . |
| 6 | ‘ I nursed my husband for five years with leukaemia . |
| 7 | He spent the last five years with Austin Knight in Newcastle , the last six months as agency director . |
| 8 | However , the Sun 's italicised section in the body of its report — ‘ he had wooed her five years with champagne and romantic meals , getting just a kiss on the cheek in return ’ — provides the clear message of what allegedly out-of-work actresses are expected to give tycoons who make that son of trouble . |
| 9 | Peebles , who had five years with St. Mirren before joining Thistle , will join the ever growing number of Scottish players travelling each weekend and in midweek to Belfast for matches . |
| 10 | This included five years with Edinburgh Corporation 's City Engineer 's Department and a four year stint with Lothian Regional Council as transportation engineer in the mid 1970s . |
| 11 | He has also worked with Goodman Direct Marketing in London and prior to that for five years with Templetons ( British Carpets Ltd. , as it was then called ) . |
| 12 | Previously , he worked as a manager with Goodman Carpets of Kettering and for five years with C. F. Harrison in Northampton . |
| 13 | Paul has over twenty years experience in contract carpeting including a number of years as an Interior Designer and five years with Peachgate , one of London 's largest carpet contractors . |
| 14 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 15 | Anyone who has visited a newspaper office in the last five years with expectations from cinematic memories of Citizen Kane or who has struggled back from the newsagent on a Sunday morning with a sample of what is laughably offered as a ‘ leisurely read ’ will know that much has changed . |
| 16 | The first part of the statement announced a specific policy relating to prisoners serving determinate sentences of over five years for offences of violence or drug trafficking . |
| 17 | Guppy gets five years for gems robbery fraud |
| 18 | Lord Justice Kelly faced a storm of controversy and provoked sustained public outcry last June when he sentenced the then 23-year-old Lisburn woman to just five years for manslaughter . |
| 19 | He was jailed for five years for manslaughter but today it was reduced to three and a half years . |
| 20 | At present , women only qualify for leave if they have worked for the same employer for two years ; five years for women who work less than 16 hours per week . |
| 21 | A research student is required to complete a period of full-time study lasting for two years for MPhil or three years for DPhil , or a period of part-time study lasting for four years for MPhil or five years for DPhil . |
| 22 | Scot given five years for rape |
| 23 | Five years for Francis Graham Dixon |
| 24 | Each man was sentenced to five years for conspiracy to defraud Lloyd 's of London of £1.8 million , five years concurrently for conspiracy to steal £1.2 million from their firm — for which the £533,000 fine was also imposed — and 12 months concurrently for conspiracy to commit false accounting . |
| 25 | An airman accused of setting fire to an RAF hanger has been jailed for five years for arson . |
| 26 | Anthony , aged twenty-two , was with him , doing five years for robbery and malicious wounding . |
| 27 | Only salaried employees with five years at Bull can apply for departure , and Bull will limit the numbers to 60% managers and 40% non-managers . |
| 28 | Magdalena Abakanowicz shows work from the past five years at Marlborough , including a couple of ten-foot-high hand-like bronze trees ; Joel Shapiro fills both up- and downtown Pace with recent bronzes incorporating cylindrical and spherical forms new to his repertoire ( both shows until 5 June ) ; Beverly Pepper peppers Emmerich with new bronzes as well as a survey , in photographs and maquettes , of recent public commissions ; and Robert Shelton , who hears the surf pounding daily in his Malibu studio , calls his recent show at Louver ‘ thingsgetwet ’ . |
| 29 | Weighing less than 100 grams , the young parr leave and spend one to five years at sea before returning , weighing up to 20 kg . |
| 30 | He was finance director of Mecca Leisure before its acquisition by Rank Organisation in June 1990 , and before that occupied the same post for five years at Thorn EMI . |