Example sentences of "place five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each place five pubs chosen at random were questioned about their bar prices . |
| 2 | The second , concerning the Alpine soldiers , took place five days later : ‘ Submarine cast off and with the Lewis gun accounted for the soldiers in the rubber raft ’ [ my italics ] . |
| 3 | The hunting of migrant birds — a practice which attracts particularly strong criticism — is now allowed to take place five days a week . |
| 4 | I know this sounds obvious but it 's surprising how many organisers depend on brochures , models and plans ( it 's fine to have those as well , of course ) or even their recollections of a place five years ago ( when it and your needs were different ) . |
| 5 | Holiday memories of dinner for two complete with bottle of wine for the princely sum of a fiver are , alas , no guide to the cost of actually living in a country — especially if the holiday in question took place five years ago or more . |
| 6 | A joint strategy for closing long stay hospitals and providing services in the community was in place five years before the phrase ‘ caring for people ’ emerged as the title of a White Paper . |
| 7 | King John had not been invited because he was under sentence of excommunication — he did not , therefore , legally exist — but when the council finally took place five proctors represented the king of England , three of whom were clerics , the archbishop of Bordeaux , the archbishop of Dublin and the king 's chancellor , Richard Marsh , and two laymen , John Marshal and Geoffrey Lutterel . |