quinquennium

• “As Nafta begins its second quinquennium, much remains to be achieved and much remains to be said.”

  Nafta At Five

• “Anno gratis 1231, mense ver� Iulio, Petrus Wintoniensis episcopus, completo in terra sancta iam fere per quinquennium magnifice peregrinationis voto, reuersus est in Angliam, Kalendis”

  The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

• “Net capital formation was very steady over the quinquennium”

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

• “Above all, net capital formation suffered an appalling collapse after 1929, falling in 1932 to a figure no less than 95 per cent below the average of the quinquennium 1925 − 1929.”

  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

• “Empire the first five years of his reign (the _quinquennium Neronis_) were a period of peace and good government, but for the Jews they brought little or no relief.”

  Josephus

• “Homeward by the way of South Street, admiring the slender concave bows of fine ships -- the _Mexico_ and the _Santa Marta_, for instance -- and privily wondering what were our chances of smelling blue water within the next quinquennium, we passed in mild and placid abandonment.”

  Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

• “The young Nero was handsome and personally popular, and the opening years of his reign (_quinquennium Neronis_) were famous for good government and prosperity.”

  Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

• “For the rest of the Empire the first five years of his reign (the quinquennium Neronis) were a period of peace and good government, but for the Jews they brought little or no relief.”

  Josephus

• “The mild and enlightened administration of the earlier years of the new reign, the famous _quinquennium Neronis_, which was looked back to afterwards as a sort of brief golden age, may indeed be ascribed largely to Seneca's influence; but this influence was based on an excessive indulgence of Nero's caprices, which soon worked out its own punishment.”

  Latin Literature

• “We did not think so in England in the fifties, the sixties, and the seventies, in the heyday of Victorian romance; and I do not think we ought to pass that judgment now in this last quinquennium of our century.”

  Studies in Early Victorian Literature

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