Example sentences of "five year [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jarvefelt was an actor in Stockholm for five years before he got into opera , and — like many theatre people — he was disinclined to challenge the presumed limitations of opera singers as actors . |
| 2 | It was only nine years since Charles Sturt had returned , starving and almost blind , from discovering the Darling and the Murray Rivers ; it was to be another five years before he ventured towards the centre of Australia in search of that mythical inland sea . |
| 3 | It was five years before he made another series , but in 1974 and 1975 he recorded Christmas specials . |
| 4 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 5 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 6 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 7 | She still had n't got over the shock of seeing David Markham again ; it must be … she did a rapid calculation in her head … all of five years since he 'd walked out of their lives . |
| 8 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 9 | It 's his big TV break and comes five years after he left school with just one O-level . |
| 10 | The Canadian sprinter , Ben Johnson , has been banned for life after failing a drugs test five years after he was expelled from the Olympics for drug-taking . |
| 11 | A path is now being beaten to the door of McGrain , who could not convince anybody in the game to give him a job in management for five years after he left Celtic . |
| 12 | He stutters , but he caddied for me for five years and he knows the game inside out . |
| 13 | Give him five years and he 'll be running for President . |
| 14 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 15 | It 's his first film for five years and he told me it 's been creating quite a stir , because of its subject matter . |
| 16 | Three years er three years , five years if he misbehaves , and Clayton , you say , eighteen . |