Sentence examples for a five-year stretch from inspiring English sources

That track record -- and in particular, a five-year stretch on Nonesuch Records -- cemented his reputation as a pianist of rare harmonic insight and uncommonly fluid technique.

There have been many fatal floods: the penultimate one in 2011 cost six lives and earned the city's first female mayor, Marta Vincenzi, a five-year stretch for manslaughter.

Tony (Servais) is an ageing thief, recently released from a five-year stretch in prison, and now seeking revenge on an old girlfriend Mado (Sabouret), who's transferred her allegiances to nightclub-owner and police-informant Grutter.

That season ended a five-year stretch of supremacy in the National League East, a period which includes two World Series berths and a championship in 2008.

Maybe the Yankees will hold their own with improved pitching, for which there was no shortage of off-season expenditure, and the brand of baseball that won them four World Series during a five-year stretch almost a decade ago.

For every $1 million in new software sales, Oracle gets $220,000 a year in upkeep revenue over a five-year stretch.

What a four-year stretch.

After graduating from high school in 1943, he did a two-year stretch in the Navy.

Brown is in the midst of a six-year stretch that not even Jerry Rice could compete with.

The Bible, being written by many people over a thousand-year stretch that ended about 165 B.C., is galactically difficult to translate.

The following year he won the world championship, ending a four-year stretch in which no Norwegians had captured the title.