Sentence examples for about five years prior from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "about five years prior" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a time frame that is approximately five years before a specific event or point in time.
Example: "The research was conducted about five years prior to the publication of the findings."
Alternatives: "approximately five years earlier" or "roughly five years before".

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Although DHS-based estimates are affected by sampling variability and refer to a date about five years prior to the survey, they are not affected by under-registration since they rely on maternal report.

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It's about two years prior.

The patient, a 24-year-old Caucasian woman, gave a history of migraine with aura attacks starting about three years prior to review.

About two years prior to the transaction, we had defined strategically that we needed to be in the sequencing business if we were going to be the long-term winner in this market.

We had been working together for about eight years prior to opening our facility.

I had stood in that exact spot about twenty-five years prior.

Jack believed that most of his trouble had come directly from the trauma of war and that some of it could be attributed to a head injury he had sustained about ten years prior.

She was raised in a small town in the Santa Fe Province where she taught nursery school, but she moved to Buenos Aires after passing an entrance exam for the Airport Security Police about three years prior to the Maletinazo incident.

Evidence suggests that gold had previously been found in the area about thirty years prior, but the Lopez gold find was the first popularly documented incident in the area.

The idea behind the game first came to Schafer about fifteen years prior to its release, but its core concepts did not completely come together until after the completion of Psychonauts (2005), when he presented his idea for the game to the team, they became excited at the concept and decided to make that their next title.

The creation of an international agency to address climate change occurred about eight years, prior to the creation of UNAIDS.

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