Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] five " in BNC.
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| 31 | The old pub looked slightly sinister standing dark against the night sky and Billy shivered as he followed Yanto through the open five barred gateway into the back garden of the ‘ Sally ’ , as it was called locally . |
| 32 | ( I have regarded myself as a feminist ever since I finally stopped wanting to be a pretend boy like George in the Famous Five . ) |
| 33 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 34 | — undertaking annual declarations on long-range SLCMs for the next five years with each side limiting its SLCMs to 880 . |
| 35 | All Bournemouth surveyors are in the 100 Club , with Barrie Allen recently joining Glen and Paul in the top five places in the South West . |
| 36 | The study , conducted by a leading provider of export insurance , reveals that the value of losses reported by UK companies exporting to the EC over the last five years rose by 248 per cent . |
| 37 | Ethics , religion , culture and education are the four key elements of a new Study and Action Programme which will guide WACC during the next five years and shape its second international congress in 1995 . |
| 38 | In the fuel industry , in particular , Britain has maintained its position in world class research , with Shell and BP in the top five international fuel companies . |
| 39 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years . |
| 40 | While a recent survey in England showed that many youngsters found books ‘ boring ’ compared with space-age games , films and TV programmes , there has been no decrease in public-library borrowing by children in Belfast over the last five years . |