Example sentences of "about five " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was offered a restaurant in Cheltenham about five years ago , but I did n't even consider it . |
| 2 | Park at the layby on the left just before the stone gateway to a vineyard about five kilometres along this road . |
| 3 | More than 20 receiver firms have RDS models in their ranges , mostly car radios , with about five firms offering domestic audio tuners with RDS , though still no portable sets . |
| 4 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
| 5 | The couple lived together in the village of Bramsford , about five miles from Worcester . |
| 6 | Detectives named two men sought in connection with Clapham as Patrick Sheehy and John Conaghty , who are believed to have been the core of a cell of about five or six . |
| 7 | IT TAKES about five minutes in New Zealand to comprehend why the All Blacks are the best . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , about five years , but then I did n't at first have anything to judge my pain against . |
| 9 | Like , I 've seen my name written down about five times on that last page . |
| 10 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 11 | It appeared that the naval guns , about five or six miles back in the English Channel , were either trying to break another German attack or were just shelling the enemy positions ! |
| 12 | The advance was a distance of about five or six miles , passing through Bavant , a small village now occupied by No. 6 Commando . |
| 13 | When she had been about five he had come to stay , returning from Hong Kong and , like other wise men from the east , he came bearing gifts . |
| 14 | When I started we only had about five per cent of the biscuit trade . |
| 15 | ‘ I had my only run of the day at approximately 11 am and after setting the hooks I had a slow , dogged fight for about five minutes before netting the fish at the second attempt , ’ said Dave . |
| 16 | fully established daily rhythms — that is , ones like those in adults — do not develop until about five years of age . |
| 17 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 18 | We first did about five tracks which was pressed on a private white album , with me on one side and David on the other . |
| 19 | ‘ I have to eat about five times a day , or I just stop in my tracks . ’ |
| 20 | In about five years , if things go well , Biohybrid pancreases could become widely available . |
| 21 | After about five minutes I heard a voice behind me say : ‘ Hi , there ! |
| 22 | He ceased to breathe yesterday about five o'clock . |
| 23 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 24 | The farm has been open to the public free of charge for about five years , though groups pay a small charge . |
| 25 | By the Fifties his ranch model homes , built in about five varieties of finish and colour scheme , were selling for $9,000 . |
| 26 | About five minutes later as they watched its dying effects a great sound wave enveloped the ship . |
| 27 | It may be that this will gradually work through and become apparent in the activists in about five years . |
| 28 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 29 | By analysing the evidence of many hoards it has been possible to establish the dating of the annual moneyers with a fair degree of accuracy , to within about five to ten years , although the process is by no means complete and new hoards continue to suggest revisions . |
| 30 | For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) . |