Example sentences of "[conj] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relay satellites , each of which can relay 300 million bits of information , or about five million words , per second , were needed to handle the massive flow of data collected and immediately beamed down by Spacelab 's instruments . |
| 2 | All experienced knitters know that different dyes knit up at different tensions ( I certainly know this from my experiments with the ballet cardigans — there can be as much as half an inch or about five millimetres difference in measuring the forty stitches ) . |
| 3 | Putting in these values gives us a strength of about 3 x 10 4 MN/m 2 or about five million pounds per square inch . |
| 4 | or about five minutes earlier on the motorway and they drove over a part of the barrier , and they got a blow out did n't they ? |
| 5 | Most of us do not find it easy to imagine our futures and it is extremely rare to meet an individual capable of projecting himself mentally more than about five years ahead . |
| 6 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 7 | He knew that he ought to be trying to sleep — he 'd managed no more than about five or six hours in the last fifty — but he was edgy and alert with the cold-water clarity of near-exhaustion . |
| 8 | It will be within the memory of the House — although the memories of Conservative Members are probably as blank as Conservative Benches — that about five and a half years ago the right Hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) when he was the Secretary of State for Transport implemented a very novel idea . |
| 9 | Nora made that about five pounds an acre for the ten acres . |
| 10 | But the Coastguard spokesman said that about five tonnes of diesel had escaped into the sea . |
| 11 | About half the throws hit their target and it generally takes eight direct hits and about five minutes to crack the egg open . |
| 12 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to 30 or so , leaving Pick with its development core and about five salespeople . |
| 13 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to thirtysomething , leaving Pick with its development core and about five sales people . |
| 14 | The book cases were made of deal and stained , were six feet high and about five feet six inches wide . |
| 15 | I believe it was three and sixpence , at least for children , and about five shilling for adults , return . |
| 16 | And what we 've got in standing for a general election is about two and a half thousand men and about five hundred women . |
| 17 | There are lots of boys running a portable shoe-cleaning business in their summer holidays in the park , and about five of them besieged me , tried out their broken English , and shone my 18-year-old Hungarian sandals so that they look like new . |
| 18 | hairdryer to dry it out right and he 's drying this switch out with the hairdryer and all and everything turned the switch on and about five hundred volts were on shock so they had to call |
| 19 | Until about five years ago most boats in general club use were of this sort . |
| 20 | And it was n't until about five minutes later that one of the twins — and I honestly do n't know which , because they keep swapping their headbands … ’ she explained . |
| 21 | But about five years ago it shifted ‘ on expert advice ’ , to a denser uranium titanium mixture . |
| 22 | The treatment was discontinued but about five minutes later he suddenly remembered the reason for his unusual reaction . |
| 23 | Between them , but about five miles further distant , a tenuous column of bluish smoke , hardly visible against a cloudless sky , hung lazily in the air . |
| 24 | And she 's about the same size round but about five foot two . . |
| 25 | After about five minutes I heard a voice behind me say : ‘ Hi , there ! |
| 26 | After about five minutes we went into the final check room where we stayed for what seemed ages , most of us in our pre-race trances now , nobody speaking , just moving about , staying loose . |
| 27 | After about five hours we dropped down on Athens in a soft rain . |
| 28 | After about five minutes he saw a strange sight of what he took to be three men approaching ; he challenged them in the usual way and shouted , ‘ Halt or I fire . ’ |
| 29 | She came to the river after about five minutes and stood on the bridge , leaning over the parapet to watch the water race by . |
| 30 | But he recovered after about five weeks , and I thought all was well again . |