Example sentences of "five year ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of privately commissioned opinion polls showing an increasing majority in favour of some measure of divorce legislation , FitzGerald agreed with his cabinet to proceed with a referendum on whether to change the constitution so as to allow divorce for marriages irretrievably broken down , though only after a period of five years ' actual breakdown and legal separation . |
| 2 | You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time . |
| 3 | After a minimum five years ' operating experience it would be time to think about taking a few orders for commercial stations , the first of which should come on stream about 2020 — always provided , of course , that the cost and dwindling resources of uranium made it commercially worthwhile : |
| 4 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 5 | However , even without the Mowatt extension , one might ask whether the distinction between intention ( section 18 ) and recklessness ( section 20 ) is so wide in crimes of violence , often impulsive reactions to events , as to warrant the difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment . |
| 6 | Moreover , the maximum penalty for the section 47 offence is five years ' imprisonment , with no apparent justification for the strange approach of making the penalty equivalent to the higher offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( the section 20 offence ) , and the fault requirement equivalent to the lower offence on the ‘ ladder ’ ( common assault , with a maximum of six months ' imprisonment ) . |
| 7 | In order to support this position , one has to accept : ( i ) that the intention — recklessness distinction is the most significant dividing line for serious injuries , more relevant than factors such as premeditation or provocation ; ( ii ) that this is a workable distinction for the courts , especially in impulsive crimes , where the definition of intention may be fulfilled by a momentary realization of what is happening ; ( iii ) that it is so significant that a difference in maximum penalties between life imprisonment and five years ' imprisonment is appropriate ; and ( iv ) that there is not a strong case for phrasing the offences in terms of endangerment rather than of causing physical harm . |
| 8 | McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’ |
| 9 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 10 | The proposal from Tripoli was that five years ' residence and good behaviour should suffice . |
| 11 | He was due to oversee Italy 's entry into the European single market next year and to the single currency in five years ' time . |
| 12 | With the benefit of five years ' hindsight and analysis , it is possible to understand at least some of the political consequences of that sort of robust egalitarianism . |
| 13 | Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity . |
| 14 | After five years ' argument , the UK agreed terms . |
| 15 | At a primary school , Joan , a teacher of five years ' experience , notices two 9-year-old pupils scuffling in the corridor . |
| 16 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 17 | I went to university for five years ' study . |
| 18 | Wondered what woman , if any , I should be thinking about in five years ' time . ’ |
| 19 | If you die within five years of retirement , most schemes pay the balance of the five years ' pension as a lump sum . |
| 20 | Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children . |
| 21 | And the share of military expenditure devoted to purchases of new equipment will grow from 23 per cent last year to 39 per cent in five years ' time . |
| 22 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 23 | SAM LLEWELLYN SAW THE RESULTS OF FIVE YEARS ' WORK |
| 24 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |
| 25 | According to the research , over half — 55 percent — have an average of five years ' managing director experience in at least two positions and eight out of ten claim experience of turning around a company . |
| 26 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 27 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 28 | ACTOR Ryan O'Neal 's tearaway son was yesterday put on five years ' probation for shooting up his ex-girlfriend 's car . |
| 29 | It would be surprising if benchmarking attracts as much media attention in five years ' time as it does now . |
| 30 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |