Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] five year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although students belong for the entire five years of study to one particular section , much of the teaching is done cross-sectionally . |
| 2 | ‘ It would be a 10-year lease , index-linked to inflation for the first five years and I would have to do all the repairs the brewery had n't done . ’ |
| 3 | Recruit Cosmos , once the centre of a political scandal , has through its finance affiliate been lending money to would-be buyers of its flats at only 0.6% annual interest for the first five years . |
| 4 | For the first five years of Israel 's existence the Soviet Union likewise took a non-committal stance between Israel and its neighbours . |
| 5 | For the first five years of occupation the PLO , too , feared that it would lose its modest foothold in the territories . |
| 6 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 7 | Many more farmers would be willing to undertake conversion if the Government were prepared to provide subsidies for the first five years to help re-equip . |
| 8 | It had been a shock to discover that for the first five years they went to homes in the country where women were paid to nurse them , and it seemed to put a stop to any hope of seeing Angel again . |
| 9 | Their heyday lasted for the first five years of the Eighties , when they scored the incredible total of 20 consecutive Top 20 hits . |
| 10 | This is not likely to be a significant item for the first five years or so , and we would of course have to give priority to selling our own unsold units first . |
| 11 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 12 | ( ‘ Tempest ’ ) and some sureties , the landlord demised a factory unit on its industrial estate , known as Eley 's Estate , Eley Road , Enfield , to Tempest for a term of 20 years from 25 March 1972 at a rent of £3,850 for the first five years , with reviews at five-yearly intervals thereafter . |
| 13 | For the first five years of cash planning the Treasury put a ‘ pay factor ’ in its cash target . |
| 14 | And for the first five years of my life , I just led a very lonely life with only the my grandmother and my parents and the farm men . |
| 15 | Does the following sound an impossible target for the first five years of our society , that we might have a BCR day ( week ? ) on another railway , hiring one of its locomotives and some of its stock , but running good old BCR style mixed trains including at least one goods truck owned and restored by us and painted in BCR livery ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That is about £2 billion for the first five years . |
| 18 | The " Paris Club " of industrialized creditor countries would write down rescheduled debt by two-thirds instead of one-third ; they would deal with the total debt of an eligible country in one operation instead of in one-year maturities ; interest payments would be capitalized for the first five years of rescheduling , with debt repayments linked to the debtor nation 's export capacity ; and the repayment period would be extended from 14 to 25 years . |
| 19 | That covenant specifies the rent payable for the first five years . |
| 20 | Er , increases by ten percent simple interest per year , for the first five years , and then stays level . |
| 21 | Next year the EC has to make a budget plan for the following five years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He has sold organic wines for the past five years , ever since he got a licence . |
| 24 | I am 30 and have owned Bull Terriers for the past five years . |
| 25 | A federation of recreation industry unions compiled a list of more than 100 MPs from ruling and opposition parties who allegedly received huge sums of money from pachinko barons for the past five years . |
| 26 | This is slightly up on the previous year but for the past five years there has been no substantial rise in the number of asylum-seekers . |
| 27 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |
| 28 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dougherty has been doing the basic research and clinical studies for the past five years . |