Example sentences of "[prep] the [num ord] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 2 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 3 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
| 4 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
| 5 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 6 | Many more farmers would be willing to undertake conversion if the Government were prepared to provide subsidies for the first five years to help re-equip . |
| 7 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 8 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 9 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 10 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 11 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 12 | For the first five years of cash planning the Treasury put a ‘ pay factor ’ in its cash target . |
| 13 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 14 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 16 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
| 17 | The " Paris Club " of industrialized creditor countries would write down rescheduled debt by two-thirds instead of one-third ; they would deal with the total debt of an eligible country in one operation instead of in one-year maturities ; interest payments would be capitalized for the first five years of rescheduling , with debt repayments linked to the debtor nation 's export capacity ; and the repayment period would be extended from 14 to 25 years . |
| 18 | That covenant specifies the rent payable for the first five years . |
| 19 | Er , increases by ten percent simple interest per year , for the first five years , and then stays level . |
| 20 | For the last five years , a good friend of mine has suffered from panic attacks . |
| 21 | ‘ Sir David has been attempting to tell his son the facts of life for the last five years . |
| 22 | ‘ I think that if he touched the electric fence when it was on , he 'd be frightened to death and we 'd never get near him again , ’ says Penny Stevens , his groom for the last five years . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 25 | He and his aunt have contrived with some skill to avoid their neighbours ’ cutlets for the last five years . |
| 26 | The magazine carries an interview with the Princess 's favourite clairvoy ant , Irish psychic Betty Palko , of Surbiton , Surrey , who has given Diana spiri tualist sessions for the last five years . |
| 27 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 28 | Based out of their menswear shop , The Depot , in Birmingham 's Piccadilly Street , for the last five years , the Ryans and partner Lee Garrick have organised regular excursions to Nottingham 's Venus , small , friendly boat parties ( including one memorable all-nighter in London 's Docklands and their regular Xmas fancy dress jaunt in Worcestershire ) , and high quality one-off events for bigger crowds . |
| 29 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 30 | The proportion of lone-parent families has remained fairly steady at 14 percent for the last five years ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |