Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew 's wife , Abi , a former production manager , has been a freelance photographer for the last five years . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He jabbered about football for the first five minutes to smother her angry silence . |
| 7 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He wondered whether she had taken a lover during the last five years . |
| 14 | –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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Goals in the first five minutes by Dennis Greene and Keith Scott set the Buckinghamshire side on the path to victory , but they had to wait until the 68th minute before Simon Stapleton settled the issue . |
| 21 | After coming back magnificently from two goals down with 20 minutes remaining , two goals in the last five minutes meant the Quakers , who dominated the game , are still without a win at home in two months . |
| 22 | He has now conceded 10 goals in the last five games . |
| 23 | I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years |
| 24 | The bill was the textile lobby 's third attempt within the last five years to mandate trade restrictions . |
| 25 | The aim is to set up over 50 restaurants within the next five years and to increase to over 10O within 10 years . |
| 26 | A third , Labour , has always been an " also ran " , attracting less than 10% of the popular vote in the last five general elections . |
| 27 | The documents lodged at the Newport County Court tell a grim story : losses of £148,000 in 1991 , followed by further losses in the first five months of this year of £127,000 ; £2,309,993 worth of liabilities ; assets at a net book value of £1,773,115 ; and a practice on a forced sale worth just £232,601 . |
| 28 | These were now about two years old , so he hoped he might be amongst the prize winners in the next five years . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |