Example sentences of "[pn reflx] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus while standards were relaxed , this was accompanied by less tolerance of their breach , compliance being expected in 95 per cent , rather than 75 per cent , of samples : ‘ exposing ourselves five per cent of the time ’ , as a senior man put it , thinking of his agency 's sewage works . |
| 2 | Thank you Mr chairman , just one point Mr , we 're not voting ourselves five percent more , we 're taking five percent off next year 's allowance and putting it to this one so it 's a negative rollover , so we 're actually spending some of next year 's money this year . |
| 3 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 4 | William III was , as usual , absent on the Continent and the forces which Queen Mary had at her disposal to repel James were far fewer than those available to James himself five years before . |
| 5 | The former French Socialist prime minister shot himself five weeks after his party 's crushing defeat in parliamentary elections . |
| 6 | Parsley was level par at the turn but found himself five down yet he never gave up . |
| 7 | Parsley was level par at the turn but found himself five down yet he never gave up . |
| 8 | This has led to me setting up a very enthusiastic and committed core group which has given itself five years to complete the assessment and documentation needs to cover the Region . |
| 9 | Two itself five times yeah . |
| 10 | ‘ When she had repeated herself five or six times , the CIA man slammed the phone down in a rage , and Reagan never learned what he had to say . ’ |
| 11 | So if he sells it thirty , just , he wo n't even cover his overheads on that but it means instead of having it delivered you go down to Joe 's shop get it for thirty P save yourself five P . |
| 12 | The British people may give themselves five years in which to work it out . |