Example sentences of "in five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of 1988 , BR 's Provincial sector announced that the Valley Lines had doubled their revenue in five years , the only Provincial services to do so ! |
| 2 | With a visit from a Government safety inspector likely only once in five years , the safety/cost conflict is all too easily settled by sacrificing safety to the god of profit . |
| 3 | Now Penrhyn , operated by Alfred McAlpine , has seen profits and production increase fourfold in five years , and 400 are employed . |
| 4 | Patricof , which manages funds for a number of UK institutions including Eagle Star and Standard Life , hopes to float the company on the stock market in five years . |
| 5 | Under the guarantee , McCaw will buy the remaining LIN shares in five years at an agreed private market price or will put the entire LIN company up for sale . |
| 6 | It is expected to close in five years . |
| 7 | Remember , in five years , time , most of these people will either be press officers ( doing the same as you are , but with less loving care ) or they will have been kicked upstairs to edit a page instead of writing on it , thereby saving readers from any more of their insufferable prose . |
| 8 | In five years a machine is counted as nothing in the balance sheet , but people count and age makes them more experienced , gives them better judgement — if they 're capable of learning , which most people are . |
| 9 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 10 | One in five marine science posts lost in 1989 ; in five years to 1987 research into renewable energy halved . |
| 11 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run forever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 12 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run for ever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 13 | The 30,000 should swell to 100,000 in five years , and the BCS would move centre-stage . |
| 14 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 15 | Long-term unemployment , defined as people out of work for more than a year , is rising for the first time in five years . |
| 16 | Nicholas Young laid over £10m-worth of bets in five years — at least a third of it with other people 's money . |
| 17 | Though he has not released a record in five years , his success in the 1980s was astronomical : his three solo albums sold more than 75m copies altogether , his two home-videos 1m each . |
| 18 | In five years to last September , Japan 's 50 biggest increased their borrowing by 330% to ¥14 trillion ( $10 billion ) , according to a new survey by Tokyo Shoko Research . |
| 19 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 20 | As Rothschild says : ‘ In effect , Rákosi killed more communists in five years than Horthy had in twenty-five , and the entire society was cowed into a condition of bewilderment and terror . ’ |
| 21 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 22 | There would be a new catalogue in five years . … |
| 23 | Nick Gaselee , for whom this famous victory was such a welcome change of luck , rode 90 winners as an amateur before learning his trade in five years as assistant to the great Fulke Walwyn . |
| 24 | During his highly successful playing days at Liverpool — five Championships , three European Cups and four League Cups — Mr Souness never managed to appear in an FA Cup Final , and in five years as Rangers manager he was unable to add the Scottish Cup to the seven other domestic trophies he secured . |
| 25 | He was due to oversee Italy 's entry into the European single market next year and to the single currency in five years ' time . |
| 26 | HEINZ FREI , the world record-holder from Switzerland , is expected to become the fourth foreign winner in five years of the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon tomorrow . |
| 27 | Last season United watched Schmeichel regularly as Brondby won the Danish title for the fourth time in five years and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup . |
| 28 | But only about 170 Arabs had claimed such compensation in five years ; making a claim in the Israeli courts means recognising the state of Israel . |
| 29 | Only 170 Arabs had made successful applications in five years . |
| 30 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |