Example sentences of "[prep] five [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleck should be back soon to sharpen that attack , but for today Stringer names an unchanged squad of 13 to meet a side which has Sutton back in goal after five games ' absence at the expense of Crossley . |
| 2 | At each visit blood pressure was recorded twice after five minutes ' lying down , a radial pulse being measured between readings , and blood pressure and radial pulse were recorded after two minutes ' standing . |
| 3 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 4 | After five years ' argument , the UK agreed terms . |
| 5 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 6 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |
| 7 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 8 | After five years ' service , Mr Rump was ordered to work outside the south of England and , relying on his manager 's promise , he refused . |
| 9 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |
| 10 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 11 | Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) . |
| 12 | I well remember going as a new convert into a Baptist church for the first time : how strange I found that row of five deacons ' chairs which dominated the scene , and even stranger the little cups for communion . |
| 13 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 14 | With the benefit of five years ' hindsight and analysis , it is possible to understand at least some of the political consequences of that sort of robust egalitarianism . |
| 15 | At a primary school , Joan , a teacher of five years ' experience , notices two 9-year-old pupils scuffling in the corridor . |
| 16 | SAM LLEWELLYN SAW THE RESULTS OF FIVE YEARS ' WORK |
| 17 | According to the research , over half — 55 percent — have an average of five years ' managing director experience in at least two positions and eight out of ten claim experience of turning around a company . |
| 18 | But the horror crash happened in September last year and he was charged with causing death by reckless driving , which carries a maximum of five years ' jail . |
| 19 | The medical superintendent of a hospital had to be a duly qualified medical practitioner of five years ' standing . |
| 20 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 21 | On 6 March 1991 her appeal against the tribunal 's findings was dismissed by three High Court judges sitting as Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn but they altered her sentence to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 22 | It is considered that an ideal land bank will vary between a minimum of three years ' and a maximum of five years ' stock . |
| 23 | The alternative for prosecutors is to accept a plea to a non-sexual offence such as assault occasioning actual bodily harm or unlawful wounding which carry maximum penalties of five years ' imprisonment . |
| 24 | Category D , carrying a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment , would cover indecent assaults not involving penetration . |
| 25 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 26 | This could range in scope from a review of certain commercial aspects of the target , carried out by a suitably experienced consultant , to a full ‘ long-form ’ investigation of five years ' historical financial results . |
| 27 | This could range in scope from a review of certain commercial aspects of the target , carried out by a suitably experienced consultant , to a full ‘ long-form ’ investigation of five years ' historical financial results . |
| 28 | Each of the perjury charges carried a maximum penalty of five years ' imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 , while the possession charges carried maximum sentences of one year and a fine of $100,000 . |
| 29 | The leniency of Kanemaru 's treatment was highlighted when , on the same day , Kiyoshi Kaneko was charged with falsely reporting a donation , an indictment which involved a public trial and carried a penalty of five years ' imprisonment or a fine of 300,000 yen . |
| 30 | This new law was put into practice two weeks before my son 's death , and carried with it a maximum sentence of five years ' imprisonment . |