Example sentences for: five-year

How can you use “five-year” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The actual annual requirement for labor would be less if the estimated number of retrofit installations were evenly distributed over the full five-year increment of time instead of the conservative three-year increment.

  • Reporting President Daniel arap Moi's election to a fifth five-year term in chaotic and controversial polling in Kenya, the Kenyan daily the Nation emphasized the problems he was now facing, especially "severe criticism by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund," which were withholding aid payments "citing tardiness in effecting reforms in the energy and telecommunications sectors and in tackling corruption generally."

  • ‘Some people say that the ESF has no experience in funding large amounts… for research,’ acknowledges Enric Banda, director general of the Catalan Research Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, who finished a five-year term as the ESF's chief executive at the end of 2003 and is credited with ‘waking up’ the foundation.

  • Time wonders how the United States will handle "hard to place" recipients when the five-year welfare limit comes up in 2001.

  • My favorite is a five-year study of self-poisoning at a hospital in New South Wales, Australia, published in the Medical Journal of Australia . From 1988 to 1993, the hospital admitted 2,215 patients for overdosing on drugs or poisoning themselves with toxic substances.


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