Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] the [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Communities ( EC ) announced grant aid for Ethiopia worth $387,000,000 over the next five years , to be directed towards rural development and small-scale industry and agriculture , with the emphasis on the private sector . |
| 2 | He 's given them £342,000 in the past five years to create the ‘ right business environment ’ . |
| 3 | Economic growth , at an annual average of 4% over the past five years , is not bad in the circumstances , though not as spectacular as the South-East Asian growth rates that Sri Lanka aspires to emulate . |
| 4 | A new town plans to increase it 's population by fifty percent during the next five years . |
| 5 | The proportion of lone-parent families has remained fairly steady at 14 percent for the last five years ( OPCS , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 7 | The Income & Growth PEP allows you to invest in the Capital House Income & Growth Unit Trust which , despite one of the most difficult periods for stock market investment , has seen an investment of £100 grow to £183 over the last five years — had you been able to invest in the Income & Growth PEP over this period you would have received this return free of all personal taxes . |
| 8 | But the police have killed 46 people in the past five years , including 12 last year . |
| 9 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 10 | Logica Plc is letting the Callserver Unix-based speech and call processing activities developed at its Cambridge research lab go in a management buyout for £187,000 and up to £1.3m over the next five years . |
| 11 | Even with a £30,000 loan , a customer could have saved up to £2,600 over the last five years . |
| 12 | Though we maintain a relatively small profession in the UK , our numbers have increased by 28% over the last five years and the number of actuarial students is up by 45% . |
| 13 | In Europe it plans to invest $350m over the next five years and create 650 jobs to launch the speech and data services , which will offer common features and performance standards globally , and will be offered to European multinationals in 1994 . |
| 14 | However , Government funding as a proportion of total university income has fallen — from 65% to 51% in the last five years . |
| 15 | Mr Franklin says the promised stream of profits averaging £10m over the next five years has a present value of roughly £44m . |
| 16 | But the reason they can not press on to victory is transparent : the central planning dear to people like Mr Li and Mr Chen stands no chance of coping with 20m or more urban unemployed , a labour force that will grow by 95m in the next five years and rising expectations of wealth . |