Example sentences of "after five [noun] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleck should be back soon to sharpen that attack , but for today Stringer names an unchanged squad of 13 to meet a side which has Sutton back in goal after five games ' absence at the expense of Crossley . |
| 2 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 3 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |
| 4 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 5 | Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) . |
| 6 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 7 | After five years ' service , Mr Rump was ordered to work outside the south of England and , relying on his manager 's promise , he refused . |
| 8 | After five years ' argument , the UK agreed terms . |
| 9 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |