Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] five years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The City Centre road races , held in Newcastle and Gateshead for the past five years , have been switched to Aberdeen on May 16 following the end of General Portfolio 's sponsorship . |
| 2 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will give the total estimated annual operating costs of Trident for the first five years of operation . |
| 3 | I returned to the UK before was born after working in Spain for the previous five years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The company plans to develop a chain of 15 to 20 two- and three-star hotels in Scotland and Northern England over the next five years . |
| 6 | On the first day of the summit González signed with President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil an agreement according to which Spain would made loans and investments of US$3,000 million to Brazil over the next five years , including credits to finance Spanish exports to Brazil . |
| 7 | What is being suggested is a softening of the hard line taken by the Tories in Scotland over the past five years in the use of political patronage . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , Nottingham Forest yesterday unveiled plans to make the City ground the leading stadium in the Midlands over the next five years . |
| 9 | ‘ There will be a much stronger Courtaulds presence in Viet Nam over the next five years , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Incidences of sun-induced skin cancer — have doubled in the UK over the past five years . |
| 11 | ‘ Danish farmers are also keen to try their hand at outdoor systems , which we have seen emerging in the UK over the past five years , and trials have already begun . ’ |
| 12 | He explained how he had smuggled £175.4 million into Germany in the last five years . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , of course , I 've been in touch with Liz during the last five years — how else do you think I was supposed to keep tabs on you ? |
| 14 | He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else . |
| 15 | But they all shared his ambition to become head of the CIA within the next five years . |
| 16 | And he says things have changed greatly in Cleveland over the last five years . |
| 17 | He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years . |
| 18 | The question of protecting minorities is one that will pose a real danger to Europe in the next five years . |
| 19 | ‘ There has been a tremendous surge of interest in Chinese medicine and acupuncture in western Europe over the past five years , ’ he said . |
| 20 | A partner in the Washington DC and Century City ( CA ) offices , he has been the principal corporate and litigation lawyer for Princess Cruises for the past five years . |
| 21 | A survey late last year by Mori Building , a big development company , calculated that 85m square feet ( 7.9m square metres ) of office space is scheduled to be built — in large blocks alone — in the 23 wards of Tokyo over the next five years , 87% more than was completed in the past five . |
| 22 | — undertaking annual declarations on long-range SLCMs for the next five years with each side limiting its SLCMs to 880 . |
| 23 | The study , conducted by a leading provider of export insurance , reveals that the value of losses reported by UK companies exporting to the EC over the last five years rose by 248 per cent . |
| 24 | Ethics , religion , culture and education are the four key elements of a new Study and Action Programme which will guide WACC during the next five years and shape its second international congress in 1995 . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years . |
| 26 | While a recent survey in England showed that many youngsters found books ‘ boring ’ compared with space-age games , films and TV programmes , there has been no decrease in public-library borrowing by children in Belfast over the last five years . |