Example sentences of "[conj] five [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’ |
| 2 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
| 3 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 4 | You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time . |
| 5 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 6 | No one denies that if the story became available it would be seized but , while an autobiography would have been an automatic bestseller at the time of his release , would it still be wonderful if one or five years ' time ? |
| 7 | The great propagandist for agricultural capitalism naturally fav-oured high cereal prices , but in 1771 he also made the link with high wages , insisting that " great earnings " caused many workers to offer only four or five days ' labour . |
| 8 | Reserves in 1986/87 were £2.8m , or five months ' operating expenditure . |
| 9 | The principal reason is that the Government will be defeated in four or five months ' time and be replaced by a Labour Government who will take the Bill off the statute book as soon as they come to power . |
| 10 | 17 patients with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus of more than five years ' duration who had reported altered hypoglycaemia awareness within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 11 | Changes from year to year in the number of people in each age group create difficulties for planning , especially as birth rates are notoriously difficult to predict ; estimating what the school population will be in more than five years ' time becomes increasingly speculative and uncertain . |
| 12 | Similarly , the entry cost for new mini-computers used to be $25 million and five years ' work , but has now fallen to below $5 million and one year . |
| 13 | However , even without the Mowatt extension , one might ask whether the distinction between intention ( section 18 ) and recklessness ( section 20 ) is so wide in crimes of violence , often impulsive reactions to events , as to warrant the difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 14 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 15 | Two other men , W. Franklyn Chinn , Meese 's former investment adviser , and Rusty Kent London , a financial consultant , who had also been convicted , were sentenced to three and five years ' imprisonment and fined $100,000 and $250,000 respectively [ for earlier developments in Wedtech case see pp. 35502-03 ; 36679 ] . |
| 16 | On Feb. 25 , two alleged GKN members , Imran Hasan and Hasbi Abdullah were sentenced to seven and five years ' imprisonment respectively on national security grounds . |
| 17 | Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 18 | Martin Siegel , a former takeover specialist at Kidder Peabody and Co. , was sentenced to two months in prison and five years ' probation on June 15 . |
| 19 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |