Sentence examples for five years far from inspiring English sources

So coming up for air after five years, far from seeing a halcyon future, all I could see was the wreckage of a life.

Mr Threlfall said the number of Juice customers had leaped from 5,000 to around 50,000 in five years, far more than either organisation had expected.

In all, the agency would sell up to $23 billion in bonds over five years, far exceeding the record $7 billion bond sale in 1998 to pay for the state's partial takeover of the Long Island Lighting Company.

With his plan today, Mr. Bush is calling for $13.4 billion in new federal education spending from the budget surplus over five years, far less than Mr. Gore's plan, which amounts to $115 billion over 10 years.

"The expectation can only come from being in the Premier League because it's not as if Wigan Athletic have been winning games every week for four or five years, far from it.

Morale problems facing the chief will not be helped by a federal arbitrator's recommendation Friday that the police get a 10 percent raise over five years, far less than the 16 percent Mayor Richard M. Daley offered during contract talks in 2008.

But after two years, far too little has happened.

By then she had survived three years, far longer than expected.

And Mr. Richards lasted nearly two years, far longer than Mr. Gilmore.

But that was long ago (seven years), far away (two miles), and it wasn't very good, either.

The league has given Adu a contract believed to be worth $2 million for four years, far beyond its professed limits.