Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] over a five-year period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wright and West , in a study of all incidents recorded by the police as genuine rapes or attempted rapes in six English counties over a five-year period from 1972 to 1976 , found that of a total of 297 cases , fellatio was attempted or demanded in 30 incidents , cunnilingus in 13 , buggery in 12 and other sexual acts usually involving masturbation in 35 . |
| 2 | According to market researchers the Gartner Group , it costs a company an astonishing £19,500 or so to run a single personal computer over a five-year period . |
| 3 | The proposed solution , announced in March 1984 , involved halving the 57,000 workforce over a five-year period ( with a 6,000 cut in 1984 ) , the maintaining by the government of the FFr 6.5 billion subsidy for five years and the agreement of E de F to increase coal purchases and employ 1,000 C de F employees per year . |
| 4 | Much of the certifieds ' training is done by correspondence course and , until the final exams that must be passed in one sitting , they are able to tackle the lower stages over a five-year period , taking one or two at a time . |
| 5 | The police committee had previously agreed to seek an increase in the establishment of the force by 20 officers each year over a five-year period . |
| 6 | Thus it has been held that there was a course of dealing where the parties contracted three or four times per month for three years ( Kendall v Lillico ) and where there had been 81 transactions over a period of six years ( SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) , but not where there had been only three or four contracts over a five-year period ( Hollier v Rambler Motors ( AMC ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 71 ; in addition the alleged course of dealing was not consistent ) . |
| 7 | The Commission approved on Dec. 17 , 1989 , for the third framework programme , its key technology research and development initiative , a budget of 5,700 million ECU over a five-year period of which one-third was to be for research into information technology . |