Example sentences of "five [noun pl] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |
| 2 | Five hours later Campbell came back downstairs . |
| 3 | Five hours later Mr Humble was at the end of his tether . |
| 4 | She bustled out , and five minutes later Auguste was sipping from a willow-pattern cup with Edith 's and Egbert 's eyes on him . |
| 5 | Five minutes later Léonie walked carefully down the stone-flagged passage into the kitchen . |
| 6 | But five minutes later Portadown equalised , the scorer ? |
| 7 | Whitehouse was injured in the 10th minute after a clash of heads and five minutes later Spurs , who were thrashed 6–0 in the corresponding fixture last season , took the lead when striker Teddy Sheringham hit his fifth of the season . |
| 8 | Five minutes later Hibs Gordon Hunter was dismissed for a foul on Hateley , leaving Rangers with a comfortable last 25 minutes . |
| 9 | They sat down , and five minutes later Captain Seru arrived . |
| 10 | In the 43rd minute Jackie McWilliams scored her inevitable hat-trick , and five minutes later Mary King completed the rout . |
| 11 | Five minutes later Luke blocked a brilliant goal from the youngest cousin and cleared . |
| 12 | Five minutes later David Gray restored Brightlingsea 's lead , but then came the Mattless goal . |
| 13 | Five minutes later Arsenal might have restored their lead when Smith grazed the outside of the far post . |
| 14 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 15 | And five minutes later Rowett was inches wide of a second goal . |
| 16 | Five minutes later skipper Alan Kernaghan was carried off with a knee injury and Middlesbrough delayed the introduction of substitute Jon Gittens for five minutes . |
| 17 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 18 | Five minutes later John Harbour was dispatched to the Oyster Bar to tell Desmond Fairchild he was wanted in Rose 's office . |
| 19 | Five minutes later Tony and I were trudging through deep snow , wishing we had spared the time to search out the snow shoes and wondering whether there had ever been a previous occasion in Iceland when the approach of a car had been heralded by walkers . |
| 20 | But where I 'm puzzled a little bit by Terry , is about five minutes ago Terry said , people have got to go and beg and |
| 21 | Sheffield United continue their march up the first division and Ian Bryce in goal five minutes before time was good enough to beat Chelsea . |
| 22 | Income for this group is very low , but receipt of statutory support-services is relatively great ; for example , those living alone receive five times more services than married couples . |
| 23 | Between 1977 and 1986 , the Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) opposed most applications for large-scale development on the best UK farmland but , by 1987 , a sudden swing in the opposite direction saw MAFF allowing five times more applications than it opposed . |
| 24 | And when you walk aerobically at 4 miles an hour , you will burn around five times more calories than you would being sedentary . |
| 25 | This is only 8 per cent of total Volvo car production worldwide , and five times more cars are still assembled on traditional lines at Gothenburg . |
| 26 | In fact it did — five months ago Wendy conceived , but she miscarried after five weeks . |
| 27 | I had had no intention of touching it while Charlie Trumper was still away at war , until some five months later Kitty Trumper visited me in Romford . |
| 28 | Nothing terribly unusual about something slipping through a saleroom , yet five months earlier Sotheby 's had recently sold a similarly designed , if less beautiful , walnut writing desk by Pabst ( designed by the great Philadelphia architect Frank Furness and made for the Philadelphia philanthropist Henry C. Gibson ) . |
| 29 | Five weeks later Colin is still in intensive care . |
| 30 | Five days later Hugh de Neville , and eight other commissioners were appointed to supervise the making of yet another series of perambulations . |