Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] five [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 2 | They can put figures down er you know writing things off erm whatsit twenty percent per year for a machine right in five years ' time that machine is scrap . |
| 3 | Close your eyes and imagine yourself somewhere in five years ' time . |
| 4 | The union was also left virtually bankrupt , having paid out in five weeks ' strike pay nearly two years ' worth of subscriptions . |
| 5 | 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 . |