Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 2 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 3 | We get the following result in the first five years ( Pius first ) : 1963 , 28–63 ; 1964 , 53–36 ; 1965 , 30–43 ; 1966 , 31–34 ; 1967 , 22–35 . |
| 4 | I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years |
| 5 | These were now about two years old , so he hoped he might be amongst the prize winners in the next five years . |
| 6 | Devon is always a happy hunting ground for Pipe , who has saddled twice as many winners as any other trainer in the last five years here . |
| 7 | Devon is always a happy hunting ground for Pipe , who has saddled twice as many winners as any other trainer in the last five years here . |
| 8 | According to a Nationwide building society survey , around 1 in 12 people in the UK have received an inheritance in the last five years . |
| 9 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 10 | The Scholarships , which cover 7 sports , of which tennis is one , have helped no fewer than 420 youngsters in the first five years of their existence . |
| 11 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 12 | If that fails it will be the first village school to be closed by the county council in the last five years . |
| 13 | A sample of managers in such organisations , of staff recruited from social science postgraduate work in the last five years , and of academic social scientists doing the training will be interviewed as the main part of the study . |
| 14 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 15 | Despite a rise in income from commercial farming in the past five years , profits have almost halved at Newcastle University 's Cockle Park farm in Northumberland . |
| 16 | In Britain alone , more than a hundred thousand jobs have gone from farming in the last five years . |
| 17 | The good response mirrored our picture of the typical diesel owner : 95 per cent have maximum no-claims bonus , and have not had an accident in the last five years . ’ |
| 18 | Having won more than 75 awards in the past five years , we might also have been asked to nominate a judge or two . |
| 19 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |
| 20 | The Scottish Prison Service has greatly increased its commitment to vocational training and education in the last five years . |
| 21 | In real terms the cost of rail and bus travel has risen by an average of no more than five per cent above the rate of inflation in the last five years . |
| 22 | The Bonior-Hoyer contest marked the fourth occasion in the last five years on which the Democrats had chosen a senior leader . |
| 23 | It has produced a 25 per cent compound growth in earnings per share in the last five years . |
| 24 | He explained how he had smuggled £175.4 million into Germany in the last five years . |
| 25 | Second , it was open for employers to challenge the content of courses where they felt that it was irrelevant to industrial relations ( an option increasingly taken up by employers in the past five years ) . |
| 26 | This has been a favourite route in the past five years when Japanese companies have needed money to build new factories or buy assets abroad . |
| 27 | This brief survey has been intended to convey the flavour of the work on chaos in lasers and other all-optical systems which has exploded into the literature in the last five years or so . |
| 28 | The generally massive expansion in financial services , the ‘ Big Bang ’ , the LDDC 's location close to the City , £400 million of public-sector support in the first five years of existence and its extensive powers to acquire land , all placed it in an exceptionally favourable situation . |
| 29 | Despite having a huge majority in the past five years of over 100 Members , they have still felt the need to do what , until he became a member of one , Lord Hailsham used to describe as playing the game of being an ’ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 30 | As approved , the bill would give Soviet citizens the automatic right to obtain a passport within one month of application , unless the applicant was involved in criminal proceedings , was liable for military service , or had had access to state secrets in the previous five years . |