Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] five " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still outnumbered them perhaps five to one . |
| 2 | But Aymer , and after him his widow , remained in possession of their Limousin and Angoumois lordships until Charles V of France confiscated them only five years before her death in 1377 . |
| 3 | It has everything you need to control your stock and invoices and is the ideal package for the small business , due to its ease of use , it took me only five minutes to get to grips with the program . |
| 4 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 5 | ‘ See you about five , then , ’ I said . |
| 6 | I 'll give you about five minutes on that , starting now . |
| 7 | Maybe it was something she found in one of her bins It was just six dots , anyway , and some lines joining them up Five of the dots had names , Sometimes she said they were stars , sometimes they were the names of cities . |
| 8 | ‘ You owe me about five hundred pounds , ’ she whispered . |
| 9 | So all together given me about five pounds . |
| 10 | get all these programmes for some reason , somebody allowed for it when they put the system in , mind you still have to check it I suppose but checked through it , tested it , took me about five minutes , still a minimum charge of an hour |
| 11 | Simon must have bought me about five vodkas ! my throat . |
| 12 | Make me about five eight four inches . |
| 13 | Er says he 's gon na knock for me about five yeah and we 're gon na be there at five yeah . |
| 14 | they must before that they moved them out five or six years . |
| 15 | It only cost them about five dollars to make . |
| 16 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
| 17 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 18 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
| 19 | ‘ Ought n't we to give him just five minutes ? ’ |
| 20 | That would make him about five feet ten . |
| 21 | You know and he 's eighty-two now and er that makes him about five year older than me but to tw I 'm talking about twenty , thirty year ago , five make no difference then , you know and we ha had the same understanding . |
| 22 | But it took him almost five hours and contained just four fours . |
| 23 | But it took him almost five hours and contained just four fours . |
| 24 | I realised Michael could save me maybe five years of work , but I figured I 'd rather go slow and steady than to go fast and have it all fall apart . |
| 25 | Was it only five months ago we were all talking of promotion as a certainty ? |
| 26 | It set off in pursuit of the Capri , but lost it about five miles away , outside the town of Forth in Lanarkshire . |
| 27 | We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning . |
| 28 | have it tea time Oh , we , probably have it about five o'clock everybody , and Lyn and Michael come in early and have theirs as well . |
| 29 | and it about five minutes , five or ten minutes before we left off , actually been doing a great , getting a machine in Jack , we dropped in there for a cup of tea and er I goes in |
| 30 | Did it about five years ago |