Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although students belong for the entire five years of study to one particular section , much of the teaching is done cross-sectionally . |
| 2 | The other patient had values ( 1.37–1.86% ) below the medians for the other five patients with active disease , but still higher than those in remission . |
| 3 | After the transfer of his surplus in Stage V this left ten continuing candidates in the running for the remaining five seats and their votes at that stage ranged from 3,403 for Semple ( Unionist ) to 6,279 for Dickson ( UPNI ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 5 | His return to Middlesbrough as cover for Stephen Pears will leave Scarborough manager Ray McHale with a key position to fill for the final five matches . |
| 6 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 7 | Phil Davies is recalled as Wales axe six players for the final Five Nations Championship match on Saturday . |
| 8 | Next year the EC has to make a budget plan for the following five years . |
| 9 | Carmichael 's sexism — not that the word existed : ‘ the role of women in the struggle is prone ’ — and the obsession with struggle elsewhere and male intellectuals ' struggles here with an uncomprehending world , threw down enough issues to sustain a variety of competing tendencies , articles , and books for the following five years . |
| 10 | Research conducted in the United States discovered that for the top five executives from a sample of 50 of the largest companies three times as much income came from shares as from employment . |
| 11 | SCOTLAND meet Romania at Murrayfield today in a match which should be a useful warm-up for the forthcoming Five Nations Championship . |
| 12 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 13 | Running like this , with the mad south-west wind behind her , gave her a glorious sense of freedom , for her exercise had been terribly limited for the past five weeks . |
| 14 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 15 | I am 30 and have owned Bull Terriers for the past five years . |
| 16 | A federation of recreation industry unions compiled a list of more than 100 MPs from ruling and opposition parties who allegedly received huge sums of money from pachinko barons for the past five years . |
| 17 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |
| 18 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 19 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 20 | The City Centre road races , held in Newcastle and Gateshead for the past five years , have been switched to Aberdeen on May 16 following the end of General Portfolio 's sponsorship . |
| 21 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |
| 22 | Secretary of Hindhead preservation Group , Chris Woodward , who is an amateur historian and has been an active campaigner for the area for the past five years , said he was ‘ totally opposed to the change ’ . |
| 23 | She told them that she had ‘ done ’ the house for the past five years , and hoped she could go on doing it . |
| 24 | The welfare of these hens has been a controversial issue for many years , and for the past five years we in the Department of Animal Husbandry have been conducting research into ways of improving their welfare . |
| 25 | The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years . |
| 26 | For the past five years , Sanjay has worked in the warehouses , workshops and streets of Le Sentier . |
| 27 | For the past five years she has devoted herself to the United Nations Children 's Fund and became its ambassador in an effort to help the world 's sick and starving children . |
| 28 | For the past five years , the prestigious trophy had been awarded through the voting of FlyPast readers . |
| 29 | CGI 's most visible asset is the Pacbase software engineering product , which is sold around the world — but has n't IBM been hammering away at the software engineering anvil for the past five years at no inconsiderable cost in both money and resources with AD/Cycle … |
| 30 | FOR the past five years , Thailand has been intoxicated by its success . |