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A period of five years.

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Usage examples (19)
  • Net capital formation was very steady over the quinquennium
  • 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...
  • Anno gratis 1231, mense ver� Iulio, Petrus Wintoniensis episcopus, completo in terra sancta iam fere per quinquennium magnifice peregrinationis voto, reuersus est in...
  • Flabbergasted, we replied: "Thanks, Chris - but what is a quinquennium?"
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