Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the five years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have calculated that my tuition , rent and equipment for the five years of my degree would cost at least £54,500 . |
| 2 | Neither may it appoint anyone who is or may have been a member , officer or employee of a local authority or voluntary organisation and who has in that capacity been directly concerned with arrangements for the child 's care , accommodation or welfare during the five years before the proceedings . |
| 3 | The Carrian proceedings , at their various stages , were current for the whole of the five years between 1983 and 1988 . |
| 4 | Real income actually fell on average for the five years to September 1978 . |
| 5 | His article argued that nuclear-generated electricity could n't realistically replace oil and fossil fuels unless all nations built sixteen new reactors a week in the five years from 1995 , a programme impossible to achieve and one which , if practicable , would add intolerably to the nuclear threat . |
| 6 | One may eliminate famine as a possible underlying cause of discontent , as the harvests in the five years before 1381 were at least average and sometimes good ( 78 , p.161 ) . |
| 7 | Table 6.2 summarizes major evaluation projects over the five years from 1982–87 . |
| 8 | Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 9 | The Defence Department also proposed a possible reduction to a level of 150,000 of US troops stationed in Europe over the five years to 1995 , provided that the Warsaw Pact reciprocated and on the assumption that the Soviet Union could no longer depend upon its Warsaw Pact allies to support any military action it may take . |
| 10 | The trust will follow a similar investment strategy to the Hypo Foreign & Colonial US Smaller Companies unit trust , the top performing authorised fund for the five years to the end of December , with £1,000 invested five years ago now worth £4,348 . |
| 11 | The results of the five years of legislation were modest , but not insignificant . |
| 12 | The Forestry Commission sold 42,800 hectares of land in the five years to 31 March 1991 . |
| 13 | Supporters of official forecasts say the 1982–86 recovery saw an average annual growth rate of 3 per cent — not far removed from the 3.1 per cent average implied by the Treasury over the five years to 1996–97 . |
| 14 | The scheme would create up to 5,000 jobs during the five years of construction , beginning in 1994 . |