Example sentences of "[noun] in the five years " in BNC.
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1 | Last year the EEC 's member-governments decided to double the size of the structural funds in the five years 1988-92 to 50 billion ecus ( $55 billion ) to offset ‘ imbalances ’ likely to be caused by the 1992 project . |
2 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
3 | His article argued that nuclear-generated electricity could n't realistically replace oil and fossil fuels unless all nations built sixteen new reactors a week in the five years from 1995 , a programme impossible to achieve and one which , if practicable , would add intolerably to the nuclear threat . |
4 | One may eliminate famine as a possible underlying cause of discontent , as the harvests in the five years before 1381 were at least average and sometimes good ( 78 , p.161 ) . |
5 | Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War . |
6 | The Forestry Commission sold 42,800 hectares of land in the five years to 31 March 1991 . |
7 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |