Example sentences of "[prep] just five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I received a good deal from Northants , including a testimonial after just five years . |
| 2 | It leaves less to the discretion of the court and has decided on a maximum sentence of just five years . |
| 3 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 4 | We 've come a long , long way in just five years . ’ |
| 5 | In just five years , between 1970 and 1975 , the amount released from the pipelines of one single radionuclide , caesium , had risen from 31,170 curies to 141,377 . |
| 6 | In just five years , the firm 's stockmarket value dropped by three-quarters . |
| 7 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
| 8 | Local academics and ecologists estimate that if it 's allowed to continue industrial fishing will exhaust the stocks in just five years from now . |
| 9 | 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 . |