Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough had been joined with five neighbouring local authorities to form the county borough of Teesside . |
| 2 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 3 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 4 | Volunteers such as the receptionist form the backbone of the hospice and volunteer sitters have been helping for five years . |
| 5 | The consistently low wages paid to farm workers have been explained by five main considerations . |
| 6 | Much good publicity has been given to five areas of Britain that badly need it . |
| 7 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 8 | The department ‘ s syllabus has not been revised for five years and perhaps is ready for a revision . |
| 9 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 10 | Based on sequence homology throughout the POU domain including the linker region , POU domain proteins have been grouped into five different classes ( 9,19 ) . |
| 11 | The vast and highly mechanized modern industry of printing , which can be found in every town and city in the kingdom , has been dispersed during five hundred years from this one spot which ought to be holy ground to the industrialist as well as the Christian . |
| 12 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 13 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 14 | But times have changed , and with several successful campaigns behind it ( goats have been eradicated from five islands ) Galapagos conservation is taking a new direction . |
| 15 | Rotation was continued until the gall bladder was clear on fluoroscopy and no impacts had been felt for five minutes . |
| 16 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 17 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
| 18 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 19 | The schools , which cater for boys aged from 11 to 14 , have been going for five years now and are organised by Robbie Walker , Tottenham 's representative in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | Parties of more than five are unusual , but flocks of 10–20 have been noted on five occasions , and one of 30 was seen in Chichester Harbour on 25 February 1967 , the largest yet recorded in the county . |
| 21 | The 12 person dormitories have been replaced by five purpose-built houses , each with rooms catering for between two and six people . |
| 22 | At present the statement must be given no later than 13 weeks after employment commences , but part-time workers who work less than 16 hours a week need not be given a statement until they have been employed for five years and worked eight hours or more a week . |
| 23 | No. 16 , which because of the poor condition of its body , had already been re-pillared with five windows , was sent to Hendon in August or September 1928 , stripped right down and rebuilt with flush sides , two and one reversible cushioned seats inside and a number of other improvements . |
| 24 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 25 | So y your limit has now been set at five ? |
| 26 | A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated , but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change . |
| 27 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 28 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 29 | The bowhead whale has been reduced to five per cent of its original population even though it lives in distant Arctic seas . |
| 30 | Now these have been reduced to five . |