Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [adj] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I returned to the UK before was born after working in Spain for the previous five years . |
| 7 | The ICI reports that the US carried out at least three complex sets of negotiations with representatives of the Noriega government in Washington in the first five months of 1989 . |
| 8 | With a chilling prophecy he then stated that it would be the task of a great leader , Hitler for preference , to march into Russia in the next five years and place one half of the population in the lethal chamber and the other half in the zoo . |
| 9 | The company plans to develop a chain of 15 to 20 two- and three-star hotels in Scotland and Northern England over the next five years . |
| 10 | On the first day of the summit González signed with President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil an agreement according to which Spain would made loans and investments of US$3,000 million to Brazil over the next five years , including credits to finance Spanish exports to Brazil . |
| 11 | What is being suggested is a softening of the hard line taken by the Tories in Scotland over the past five years in the use of political patronage . |
| 12 | The list of the 100 shows which grabbed the biggest audiences in the past 12 months has episodes of EastEnders and Coronation Street in the top five places . |
| 13 | After coming back magnificently from two goals down with 20 minutes remaining , two goals gifted to Reading in the last five minutes consigned Darlington , who dominated the game , to defeat and left them without a win at home in two months . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Nottingham Forest yesterday unveiled plans to make the City ground the leading stadium in the Midlands over the next five years . |
| 15 | The 1988 Regional School of Sport will operate during August , September and October in the following five venues : |
| 16 | ‘ There will be a much stronger Courtaulds presence in Viet Nam over the next five years , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Incidences of sun-induced skin cancer — have doubled in the UK over the past five years . |
| 18 | ‘ Danish farmers are also keen to try their hand at outdoor systems , which we have seen emerging in the UK over the past five years , and trials have already begun . ’ |
| 19 | In addition , about 300,000 eastern German workers were commuting to jobs in western Germany , and 108,000 had emigrated to western Germany in the first five months of 1991 — most of them younger , skilled workers [ see also pp. 37761 ; 38109 ; 38354 ] . |
| 20 | He explained how he had smuggled £175.4 million into Germany in the last five years . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , of course , I 've been in touch with Liz during the last five years — how else do you think I was supposed to keep tabs on you ? |
| 22 | He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else . |
| 23 | But they all shared his ambition to become head of the CIA within the next five years . |
| 24 | And he says things have changed greatly in Cleveland over the last five years . |
| 25 | These will only be resolved in the course of an internal struggle , which will eventually produce governments neither more nor less enlightened than , for instance , those which have ruled over western Europe for the last five hundred years . |
| 26 | He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years . |
| 27 | On 30 September the hotel sent A. Creditor a cheque in settlement of the amount owing on 5 September less the agreed five per cent cash discount . |
| 28 | The question of protecting minorities is one that will pose a real danger to Europe in the next five years . |
| 29 | ‘ There has been a tremendous surge of interest in Chinese medicine and acupuncture in western Europe over the past five years , ’ he said . |
| 30 | A partner in the Washington DC and Century City ( CA ) offices , he has been the principal corporate and litigation lawyer for Princess Cruises for the past five years . |