Of all the bad news unveiled today by the chancellor this might well be the worst: after two and a half years of austerity, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is likely to say that the fiscal hole that Mr Osborne promised to eliminate in five years, back in May 2010, is actually bigger now than it was then.
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We calculated composite performance for the U.S. equity funds in 12 large fund families, going back five years.
"It's quite possible if the wrong person's in charge it could set us back five years, " says Pulver.
His failure to disclose this violated JAMA's policy, which insists on disclosure of such relationships going back five years.
For example, a single Kei Igawa deal for the Kansas City Royals could easily set the franchise back five years.
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Dimon admits to sloppy work and flawed execution, and some within the bank admit to increasingly complex and parlous trades going back five years.
He wants to lift literacy in his province from 35% to 70% within the next five years by luring children back to school with stipends.
IRA, a link that army commanders now say goes back five years, gave it new skills in explosives technology, such as the use of remote-controlled bombs of the kind that almost killed Mr Uribe.
Iain Duncan Smith says the gap is even wider if you go back five years: people on out of work benefits have seen their incomes rise by 20% over that period, while average earnings have risen by 12%.
Unless the money is earmarked to buy a home, a loan must be paid back in five years.
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U.S. prosecutors recently settled with Daimler on allegations of improper payments to Russian officials dating back over five years.
Many who found a mate here five or six years ago come back to help their younger siblings or cousins get hitched.
In five years they've bought back all but 2 of 93 franchisees.
But go back twenty five years and the big topic was mobile.
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Some just get technical training, get a job and then come back maybe five years later to upgrade their skills or adapt them to a new business.
"If you look out five years, we can gain back all the competitiveness Thailand or Indonesia or the Philippines had when their currencies devalued, " says the General Chamber's Tien.
"In five years time if you come back I hope you are going to see better roads, better health facilities, better education facilities and a good living standard for every Ghanaian, " says Joseph Tandoh as he waits for his two fishing boats to return from several days at sea.
And I think that when people look back in five years time at, you know, what did, what did Virgin do for this country, I think what we've done - what we will have done for the train network in this country, will be one of the most important things.
To check the claims, investigators examined activity reaching back at least five years, they said.
But after five years they are more or less back to where they started.
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Although they began drafting a business plan five years ago, they were held back by not knowing how to access capital.
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"When we look back five or six years from now, people will recognize that this was something absolutely new, " he says.
Both drugs would be given for about five years to prevent cancer from growing back after it has been removed by surgery or chemotherapy.
After five years, Jean Claude Gandur is back in the game.
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Except for firms getting TARP money, businesses could carry back losses for five years instead of only two years against past profits to get a refund.
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