Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
| 2 | Andrew 's wife , Abi , a former production manager , has been a freelance photographer for the last five years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been a car park season ticket holder for the last five years , during which the cost has risen from about 20 pence to £150 per day . ’ |
| 5 | It is estimated that a modest increase from the present 1.8% , to 2% of total institutional expenditure , would enable us to maintain the services at their present level for the next five years . |
| 6 | By the following morning Mr Reynolds was apyrexial and although his temperature was recorded every four hours for the next five days it remained within normal limits . |
| 7 | This will be done with the full cooperation of C3 Division of the Home Office , the Lord Chancellor 's Department and the Crown Prosecution Service all of whom have agreed to grant access to the relevant documentation in relation to cases during the first five years of the Act 's operation . |
| 8 | Their G P Felix Lusman had been using a faulty technique for the past five years . |
| 9 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 10 | If in a particular year Dr A publishes four papers , which are cited an average of 15 times by other authors during the following five years , then they have been useful . |
| 11 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 12 | It was adopted as an ISO standard back in 1986 , and has led something of a ghostly existence in the commercial market ever since , hovering on the boundaries of document interoperability solutions for the last five years . |
| 13 | Students in possession of any Morrissey records are charged a higher rate of interest on their college loans • A hitman is hired to hit the Hit Man and Her as well as all the bloody dancers ( especially that git who 's been wearing the same crappy wig for the last five mindbendingly-dull years ) . |
| 14 | Carmichael 's sexism — not that the word existed : ‘ the role of women in the struggle is prone ’ — and the obsession with struggle elsewhere and male intellectuals ' struggles here with an uncomprehending world , threw down enough issues to sustain a variety of competing tendencies , articles , and books for the following five years . |
| 15 | So when you get to the planning calendars , put everything before the planning calendars in the storage binder please , and then you should find some planning calendars for the next five years . |
| 16 | The implication of any figure , indeed the County Council 's figure for the last five years of the structure plan , could be characterized as putting the brakes on so hard , that the passengers all fall off the train . |
| 17 | The magazine carries an interview with the Princess 's favourite clairvoy ant , Irish psychic Betty Palko , of Surbiton , Surrey , who has given Diana spiri tualist sessions for the last five years . |
| 18 | He wondered whether she had taken a lover during the last five years . |
| 19 | did not take a view or action regarding the adequacy of the Regional five year land supply ; |
| 20 | It has argued that greater than forecast levels of infill demonstrate the soundness of the Structure Plan strategy ; reflect the real nature of the needs of the housing market and thereby m materially contribute to the adequacy of the regional five year land supply . |
| 21 | Whereas in the 6th edition the re-written §246 dismisses the above as ‘ all my experience permitted me to say at the time … and that his research of the previous five years had wholly solved the difficulties of repetition . |
| 22 | She then tested its weight against the individual weights of the other five kegs . |
| 23 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 24 | –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 . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | The investigation is being led by Det Supt Eric John , and if the police launch a murder inquiry it will be the third unsolved killing in the Lothians in the last five weeks . |
| 27 | The investigation is being led by Det Supt Eric John , and the murder inquiry will mark the third unsolved killing in the Lothians in the last five weeks . |
| 28 | They found their way to the Railway Station and the train back to New York and all the while , Mick O'Neil was fulminating against the unfairness of the universe , particularly as it related to Detroit in the last five minutes of the game . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Substitutions played a big part in setting up the amazing finale that produced three goals in the final five minutes when both defences looked wide open . |