Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [prep] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manpower , which operates a system of layoffs for staff to whom it can not offer an assignment , estimated that between five and ten per cent of its workforce might be laid off at any one time . |
| 2 | Martin Jajo equalised and within five minutes Jacobson sealed Darlington 's fate . |
| 3 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 4 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 5 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |