Thread: after five years

Please, would you give me a hand with this simple sentence

Context: An employee is given a car, as a perquisite. He or she can buy it after five years from the moment she was given it. How can I express that using "after" and not leaving room for ambiguity?

Employees can buy the car after 5 years .......??? It is in this part where I get stuck

What about "..... can buy the car 5 years after it has been granted"
Thank you very much!!!!

Hebe,
Mil gracias pero la vesion en ingles es la mia, la de castellaño, es el original, necesito saber si en ingles esta ok

capaz no fui claro en el post

Hola Diegonel,

Yo con lo "poco" que se...diría que no veo ningun problema con esta version : "can buy the car 5 years after it has been granted"
o "can purchase the car after a period of 5 years after it has been granted"

En este caso, me parece que "purchase" conviene mas.

Por las dudas, y me repito, esperaría la confirmación de un nativoEspero haberte ayudado. Saludos

Originally Posted by diegonel

Hebe,
Mil gracias pero la vesion en ingles es la mia, la de castellaño, es el original, necesito saber si en ingles esta ok

capaz no fui claro en el post

Hola Diegonel!

If I understand correctly what you're looking for is an English translation for that phrase?

In that case let me offer a couple of examples:

"In five years from the day the employee first receives the car; they will then have the option to purchase it. "

"The first opportunity the employee will have to buy the car will be on the five year anniversary of the date it was first received."

I hope that's helpful.

vbmenu_register("postmenu_30571", true); Kainu and Alisa,

Muchas gracias por su colaboración. Kainu, si es verdad PURCHASE queda mejor y Alisa, tu version está muy buena. El problemita es que tiene que ser as brief as possible, ya que es para una presentacion en power point, donde hay que ahorrar palabras. De todas formas muchas gracias

Diego, en esta caso y lo más corto que se me ocurre:

the employee will have a purchase option of the given car after 5 years.

Queda mejor la frase de Alisa, pero claro, muy larga.

Thanks Excentrica

I think I'd go with this one

the employee can purchase the car 5 years after it has been granted

but I wonder whether it is grammatically correct!

thanks all

I think it is grammatically correct! Sounds good, in fact.

Sounds good , I agree