• There are conditions: they must have been working in urban areas for at least three years, or for five years if they want to transfer their hukou to the centre of Chongqing.

    ECONOMIST: Urbanisation

  • You've probably got at least another year, maybe, you know, another 18 months of downward pressures on housing prices especially in markets on the coast where you've got these housing prices that have gone up by incredible, unrealistic multiples for several years, double-digit percentage gains in the cost of - or the going rate for a home or for a condo over the last three, four, five years.

    NPR: Will Interest-Rate Cut Really Help?

  • There's no point in us pretending that these aren't problems, and thinking that somehow we can go back to business as usual, because I think if we take that approach, then we might be able to manage for the next three or four or five years, but sooner or later we are going to get back into the same problems that we've already been in.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Closes Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth

  • It can take three to five years for the effects of bad or misguided management to become obvious to others.

    ECONOMIST: Crime and punishment

  • Cyclist Mike Darville, from Frome, said he had used the route "two or three times a week" for the past five years but had been stopped by a security guard on Sunday.

    BBC: National Cycle Network at Longleat 'blocked off'

  • Connelly, Barker and Owen received minimum prison terms of five, 12 and three years respectively for causing or allowing Peter's death in December 2008.

    BBC: Academy for social workers opens

  • Instead of a simple choice between autonomy and instant independence, they should be given the option of voting for autonomy with the guarantee that another vote would be held in three (or five) years' time on the matter of independence.

    ECONOMIST: A period of autonomy followed by a vote on independence?

  • King hits up corporate sponsors like Pfizer or Ford Motor to foot the bill for an exhibit that generally tours three museums a year for five years.

    FORBES: From Couture to Critters

  • Lindau said that women generally reported wanting less sex or receiving it less often for three reasons: Women outlive men by an average of five to six years and without a partner, women are less likely to engage in sex.

    CNN: Healthier men want more sex for more years

  • Forty-five percent are less optimistic than they were three years ago, even though 90 percent said they are optimistic or somewhat optimistic about the outlook for the next five years.

    FORBES: What American Companies Really Think About China

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