Example sentences of "[noun pl] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , ironically enough , at a conference of headteachers about five years ago that I first heard this now familiar piece of Machiavellian wisdom quoted by an HMI . |
| 2 | Of the larger nationalities , the Buryat Mongols have four dialects , the recently ‘ consolidated ’ Altaians about six , the Khakass about five , and the Tuvans four , while even such a small community as the Enets Samoeds has two quite widely differing ‘ dialects ’ . |
| 3 | Priests and people are given instructions about five different offerings : |
| 4 | So here we are seeing exactly how the objects would look if our eyes were sensitive to wavelengths about five times longer than they actually detect . |
| 5 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 6 | I mean , you start the proceedings about five o'clock with a pre-game leisure show . |
| 7 | The open space in the middle had been carefully brushed and in its centre squatted two men about five feet apart ; by their sides stood two cages , each containing a pair of birds . |
| 8 | It nestles on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds about five miles west of Bridlington along the A1253 Bridlington to York road . |