Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the [adj] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 2 | Salford University , for instance , relegate on the basis of two features : a cut-off date of 1930 , and a measure of the number of uses in the previous five years . |
| 3 | As to the enforcement of lorry weights , we have doubled the number of inspections over the past five years . |
| 4 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 5 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 6 | The Social Attitudes Survey can shine some light on this relationship , since it collected information on respondents ' experience of unemployment in the past five years , as well as the respondent 's current economic status . |
| 7 | Having cut his teeth at Disney Studios , Lasseter has developed a reputation with a series of shorts over the past five years which have brought together the very best aspects of hand and computer animation , creating something quite special in the process . |