Sentence examples for quite five years from inspiring English sources

He was killed in a palace revolution of 1801, which made Alexander emperor when Nicholas was not quite five years old.

At the time of that speech, his declaration was not quite five years old; today, it is exactly a hundred years old.

Not quite five years after Thompson's death, "Eloise" is coming to television, in "Eloise at the Plaza," which has its premiere Sunday night at 7 on ABC's "Wonderful World of Disney".

Not quite five years earlier, just after school on an autumn Friday afternoon, his daughter was in an S.U.V. with three other teenage girls when the 18-year-old man who was with them pulled a gun from beneath the driver's seat and pointed it at her.

The explosion -- which killed 23 workers and injured 132 -- came not quite five years after a chemical leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, had killed thousands.

Like Mad Men today, Shampoo is a period piece, set not quite five years after the end of Mad Men's most recent season, with a similar attention to detail in design and style.

Clinging to Miss Agatha's dress was her granddaughter, not quite two years old.

Another adventurous program, "Anthem," produced by NPR in 1998, did not last quite two years.

She was married not quite ten years and remembers them as the best.

And in the not quite four years covered by the pertinent 23-page chapter, that job was only the beginning.

Remember, I wasn't quite ten years old, and therefore still clinging to my mother's breast.