Example sentences of "[noun sg] about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a cry to halt , then they opened fire , but he was just outside their range ; bullets kicked up the snow about five yards away to his left . |
| 2 | For this reason , many advisers recommend that their clients swop their unit-linked policies to the with-profits type about five years before they retire , provided market conditions are favourable at the time . |
| 3 | Our new home at Marston Magna , a village about five miles from Yeovil and Sherborne , was a rather dilapidated old manor house , attached to Marston Court where the squire lived . |
| 4 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 5 | From an initial " rate " of sexual intercourse about five times a week , this had reduced to twice . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , on the other side of the door he was impatiently eyeing , Karen and I were locked in a windowless room about five feet by three , with no possibility of escape short of flushing ourselves down the lavatory . |
| 7 | Passera was appointed to his current post about five months ago , charged with improving the company 's financial situation ; he came from Carlo de Benedetti 's Compania Industria Riunite SpA holding company , which has 36% of Olivetti , and also owns publishing company Mondadori and weekly news magazine L'Espresso . |
| 8 | Ted Morgan 's car was parked high above the town about five yards down a narrow can-track which led off the road between two steeply sloping fields . |
| 9 | I could drop in at your place about five or six . |
| 10 | ‘ In about an hour and a quarter , the coach should stop at a signpost about five miles from here . |
| 11 | Jeanie moaning , Lily weeing , she 's got a water infection so she 's been about to the loo about five thousand times |
| 12 | I first became interested in car hi-fi about five years ago . |
| 13 | The ‘ nerve centre ’ of the scheme is an old building about five minutes ‘ push ’ away from the Art and Design School in the very centre of the city . |
| 14 | It seems to be coming back fairly swiftly actually , and airlines are quite confident now that erm they will see traffic growth once again of round about five per cent |
| 15 | I PULLED in to a diner about five miles short of Waldron and took aboard some fried ham and a couple of eggs sunny side up . |
| 16 | They checked the harness and cord about five times , very reassuring , then stamped my hand with ‘ checked ’ . |
| 17 | Set back from the main road , the Hotel Royal is located in a shady avenue about five minutes walk from a private sandy beach . |
| 18 | The start of the text is clearly signalled by a rubric about five and a half inches from the top edge of the roll : " " Hic incipit interludium de clerico et puella " " , " Here begins the interlude of the clerk and the girl " . |
| 19 | In The Reversing Earth Warlow tried to prove that , during the last 13,000 or so years , the Earth has flipped over on its axis about five times . |
| 20 | Bid offer about five percent . |
| 21 | Something , his father was a shepherd , his mother actually did bed and breakfast , she was on television about five years ago , she 'd actually got electricity I think it was |
| 22 | In front of the door was the only tap in the house , over a plain earthenware sink about five inches in depth from which the water went into a drain underneath . |
| 23 | The energy released will create sufficient pressure to support the star against its own gravity , giving rise to an object with a radius about five times the radius of the sun . |
| 24 | All that she really learned about him was that yes , he was a psychiatrist — ‘ one of the dissertation writers ’ , as he referred to himself-and that his wife had died after an illness about five years before . |
| 25 | did n't go to bed about five in the morning |
| 26 | This was recognized by the City of London polytechnic Learning Resources Centre about five years ago , when virtually the same orientation content was presented in five different self-instructional modes ( video.tape , programmed instruction , tape-slide , audio-tape and chart ) . |
| 27 | We miss the headlines , staggering into the back of the television lounge about five minutes after the news starts . |
| 28 | Park at the layby on the left just before the stone gateway to a vineyard about five kilometres along this road . |
| 29 | Its fuses were expected to blow the lot about five o'clock next morning , Saturday , or at the latest by nine o'clock . |
| 30 | I think it 's , our feelings are quite strong about this , in this contest that we 're having with the Town Hall , that er , having exposed the five percent in the first place , we have had particular innovation about five B , being articulated as well . |