Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [noun sg] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic plans for the coming five years revealed in February 1990 included increased emphasis on the processing of raw materials and on agriculture ; changes in the pricing system ; the introduction of some private ownership ; and the setting of production targets for only 10 out of 2,000 products . |
| 2 | Foreign companies would be able to remit part of their profits abroad , and were promised compensation in the event of " unavoidable " nationalization ; they would be given tax concessions during the initial five years of operation if they were involved in high-technology industries , resource development or infrastructure construction . |
| 3 | FRANCE , winners of the Student Five Nations competition , are the favourites in this pool . |
| 4 | vast majority of the population five mile radius of the proposed site are against it . |
| 5 | Lent : The Glory of the Cross Five talks given in Wells Cathedral during lent , march-April 1988 |
| 6 | He takes over from Harry Mogford FHCIMA , who had been chairman since the formation of the committee five years ago . |
| 7 | Here Müncheberg shot down a Hawker Fury biplane of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force , destroying a second on the ground five minutes later . |
| 8 | Most of them knew of no patient who had died of asthma during the past five or more years , but three possible cases were referred to , one of which was already accounted for . |
| 9 | Given what seems to be an insatiable demand — with simultaneous booms in office and factory automation , fuelled by the development of new Japanese language processing systems — Mizuno expects a steady stream of new entrants into the software service business during the coming five years . |
| 10 | Nor can Socrates ' association with some of the Thirty Tyrants who , with Spartan support , had launched a coup against the democracy five years earlier , have been decisive . |
| 11 | The air smells lovely , of leeks and straw and the breeze from the sea five miles away . |
| 12 | He suffered serious head injuries in the accident on the M five in Gloucestershire last October . |
| 13 | NEWCASTLE 'S Anglo-Italian Cup game against Ascoli erupted into a 22-man brawl by the touchline five minutes from time . |
| 14 | ACCOMMODATION : Ranging from relatively modest one star hotels for a budget break to top of the range five star hotel luxury for that very special occasion . |
| 15 | I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us . |
| 16 | He starts by looking at longer-term human evolution over the past five or more million years , showing rightly that this is not a simple progressive ladder but a series of adaptive radiations . |
| 17 | The construction of a dam on the Mool five kilometres upstream from the Mekong is likely to prevent fish from unaffected areas recolonizing the rivers once the pollution has cleared . |
| 18 | Clarke won plenty of line-out ball , but Andy Reed and Paul Burnell in the front five did not contribute as expected . |
| 19 | It was to be one of the worst times in the whole five years . |
| 20 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 21 | The number of people that I hear saying things such as I do n't remember stepping over people in the street five years ago and it 's true , in this city I do n't actually remember doing that , not with the frequency with which it happens today and your government and your party has no record to shout about , absolutely none . |
| 22 | So they cut his maintenance payments from four pounds a week to the minimum five pence a year . |
| 23 | Now what you 've got here is Y equals U to the power five . |
| 24 | Now we 've got Y equals U to the power five . |
| 25 | During November it ordered ground forces over the " security zone " border on three occasions and in a clash on Nov. 27 on the edge of the zone five Israeli soldiers were killed by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) guerrillas . |
| 26 | She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years . |
| 27 | Curbishley then stepped up for the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles and proceeded to win by 25 metres in a time of 43.9 secs , 1.6 seconds inside the Division Five record . |
| 28 | The total amount of Government grant that has been made available to British Coal over the past five financial years is £8.5 billion . |
| 29 | Er and could you also comment perhaps on the safeguarding of assets and any er points you would like to make in relation to the present five per cent limit on self investment . |
| 30 | But since his arrival at the theatre five years ago he has worked with the artistic director , Roger Redfarn , to make full use of his evident skills in business management . |