Example sentences of "[noun] in five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three break-ins in five months forced club officials to adopt the razor-wire option to deter raiders . |
| 2 | Manufacturers in five countries , Britain , Canada the US , Japan and the Philippines , have been selling farmyard pumps , which the association says have ‘ failed miserably ’ because they can not stand up to all-day use . |
| 3 | From Bailey 's first thrust to Simon Smith 's closing dig there was only one side in it as Bedford stumbled to their fourth defeat in five matches . |
| 4 | And what 's more , how Leeds could have done with the Frenchman as they crashed to their fourth defeat in five games . |
| 5 | At the end of 1988 , BR 's Provincial sector announced that the Valley Lines had doubled their revenue in five years , the only Provincial services to do so ! |
| 6 | City came back strongly in the second with two goals in five minutes . |
| 7 | Chester stormed back to stun Swansea with two goals in five minutes . |
| 8 | The partnership between Campbell and former Crystal Palace striker Ian Wright has produced seven goals in five games , making Arsenal the First Division 's top scorers . |
| 9 | CLIVE ALLEN took his tally to seven goals in five games with a spectacular volley on the stroke of half-time in rain-lashed Cosenza last night . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's a great bloke and deserves to do well , ’ said Allon , who has scored four goals in five games for Brentford since his £275,000 move from Chelsea last month . |
| 11 | But Mick Quinn had the final say , scoring the last two goals to take his Coventry total to an astonishing eight goals in five games . |
| 12 | during a run of five goals in five games . |
| 13 | But top scorer John Taylor , who has shown disappointing form recently , could make way for Marcus Browning , who has returned from a loan spell with Hereford after scoring six goals in five games . |
| 14 | Romario scored five goals in five days for PSV then said he was unhappy . |
| 15 | Even more recently Hammer et al measured the magnitude of faecal carbohydrate excretion in five patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency . |
| 16 | Tucking a clean pale blue T-shirt into his shorts , he did n't even glance in her direction , but called over his shoulder as he hoisted himself up the ladder , ‘ I 'll expect a mug of tea in five minutes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll meet you at the car in five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | He 's even something of a linguist apparently he can grunt monosyllables in five languages . |
| 19 | The first Iranian ambassador to be assigned to Kuwait in five years ( Kuwait having supported Iraq in the Gulf war ) , Hussein Sadeqi , took up his post on Sept. 29 , 1989 . |
| 20 | It had already formed local pacts with the SzDSz in five counties , but on March 30 Antall announced that the HDF had formed an electoral pact with the Smallholders and the Christian Democratic People 's Party whereby the three parties would support the best placed candidate in each constituency . |
| 21 | No significant additions to IT are envisaged in the foreseeable future but as RBG becomes more independent and estates staff and records increase a review in five years will be essential . |
| 22 | Table 4.23 compares the valency and oxidation numbers of carbon in five compounds . |
| 23 | A stone was impacted at the level of the ampulla in five patients . |
| 24 | The decree was made against a background of strikes which had paralysed public adminstration in five provinces , in protest against the government 's latest austerity policies [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 25 | An experiment stemming from the excavation of prehistoric cremations in Orkney indicated that one cubic metre of brushwood and peat was required to reduce a 4 stone goat to 0.04 cubic metre of bone and ash in five hours ( Hedges 1977 , p. 143 ) . |
| 26 | Despite this lack of real consensus , the social services department forged ahead in 1982 with the establishment of twenty-one social work posts in five teams ( covering the whole county ) whose geographical areas were influenced by health as much as SSD area team boundaries . |
| 27 | We had ten bobbies in five pairs waiting for them coming out . |
| 28 | GTE Corp signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Lynch Corp for the sale of its telephone service area in Kansas on undisclosed terms : GTE put 2,300 access lines in Kansas up for sale in January , where it has three employees serving 13 exchanges in the state ; after the purchase , Lynch will have 10,750 access lines in five states . |
| 29 | The computer asks children to type in five nouns , five verbs and five adjectives . |
| 30 | And yet that part of the interview could have been dismissed with a laugh in five seconds . |