How to use "five" in a sentence

Then I check the time: eight forty-five in the morning

Some of them are more than five thousand years old

I guess they are about twenty-five years old.

We are on the trail together for about five kilometres

Without stopping to think, I take the water bottle from my bag and drink a third of it in five seconds.

3.28 pm It's almost forty-five minutes since my accident

It takes twenty-five throws before it lands in the right place

I kill five or six as they circle around my head

I was trapped by a boulder in the canyon for five days

In that first month, I had five operations

It only had a table and five chairs in the middle

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I stayed in that school for five or six years

Suddenly it was 28 to 14! And after I caught it four or five more times, it was 28 to 21

There was a big metal thing about six feet tall and five feet round, sitting in the corner.

The enemy soldiers tried to blow us up for the next five nights, then it stopped

So I sat down and waited for five or six hours.

I heard that she went to Chicago, but that was five years ago.'

Well, I went into the hotel to watch them, but it was a special chess tournament and it cost five dollars to watch, so I didn't go into the chess room.

'Forrest,' said Mr Tribble, 'You're a wonderful chess player, but I never know what's going to happen next! Here's half of the money that you've won - it's almost five thousand dollars

And at the end of that year we had seventy-five thousand dollars.

I was away from Mr Slinkton and Miss Niner for about five minutes.

Within five minutes I saw her walking up the beach with a grey-haired man

The passage into the yard was about five metres long and extremely dark

Twenty-five minutes later the policeman took her from her cell to the office

Goulston Street is only five minutes from Mitre square

Mary Jane Kelly was twenty-five years old

She slept badly in a chair until 3.30, when she heard the clock strike, and was awake until nearly five o'clock

Abbeline himself walked around the Whitechapel Streets until four or five in the morning

'I've spent five years in prison for violent robbery, another fourteen years for trying to escape four times

Valjean produced two five-franc pieces and gave them to the priest

By the age of five, Cosette had become a thin, pale-faced, silent child

For twenty-five years he had been alone in the world

He now had five letters, all the work of one author: the man who lived with his family in the next room.

Marius took a five-franc piece from his pocket and handed it to the girl.

Marius had lived for five years without much money, but he had never been really poor

There are five of you, and fifteen of us

All he had in the world was the five-franc piece he intended to give her father in prison

After a long discussion with his friends, Enjolras decided that the married men (there were five of them) had to leave.

For five minutes Oliver rows, and soon the jetty and the hotel look much smaller, while the attendant is almost impossible to see in the half-light of the new evening.

His shift finishes in five minutes, but there is no one around in Howarth's quiet police station, and so he leads the woman to the first interview room and tries to suppress the image of a pint of beer in the Black Bull pub.

She must be only twenty-five or twenty-six

They say he finished class at five and left as normal."

They walk along the corridors for five minutes and reach an internal courtyard.

A simulator cost five units per hour, which was a lot - but it was worth it for the escape it offered from the city.

In a simulator, it was hard to forget that there were four walls just five or six steps away - but in a pod, you lost your awareness of the world around you

With five of them sharing, an hour cost just one energy unit each, so they did this often

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'I sat on my bed until after five

'I found out the truth five days after we were married

At five to one, I heard the sound of a car in the drive

It was five o'clock

We reached Baker's house at about five o'clock

On four or five occasions during the past two weeks, she had taken the pistol from the nightstand and searched the place, room by room, but she hadn't found anyone

From that, she moved up through a series of similar positions in larger lounges, then in small showrooms that seated four or five hundred in second-rate hotels with limited show budgets

If audience reaction was as strong and as positive as Tina hoped, her financial future was assured, for her contract gave her two and one-half percent of the gross receipts, minus liquor sales, after the first five million

If Magyck! Was a hit and packed the showroom for four or five years, as sometimes happened with successful Vegas shows, she'd be a multimillionaire by the end of the run

Six months later she and Michael separated, and less than five months after the separation, they were divorced.

More than a hundred paperbacks were ranked alphabetically on a five-shelf bookcase

The walls were decorated with evenly spaced posters - three baseball stars, five hideous monsters from horror movies - that Danny had carefully arranged.

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

Joel was an odd little man: five-feet-four, slightly chubby but not fat, with curly brown hair that appeared to have frizzed and kinked in response to a jolt of electricity

At a few minutes past eleven o'clock, a secretary from San Diego put five dollars in a slot machine and hit a jackpot worth $495,000; word of that even reached backstage in the showroom

After five rings, she realized that he was at work, and she hung up.

Twenty-five minutes before showtime Tina left the stage and went into the noisy showroom

Eva was twenty-nine, seventeen years younger than Joel, and at five foot eight, she was also four inches taller than he was

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

Nickel duchesses always played the cheap slot machines - nickels and dimes in the old days, now quarters - never the dollar- or five-dollar slots

For five years, ever since her sixty-fifth birthday, they had been pressuring her to live with them

It was a portrait of Danny Evans, as were the other five that usually hung around it

There were five photographs in addition to the one that had dropped onto the sofa; two were responsible for the noises that had drawn her into the living room, and the other three were those that she had seen popping off the picture hooks

Maybe even fifty-five.

The tables were draped with white cloths and burdened with food: five hot hors d'oeuvres, lobster salad, crab salad, pasta salad, filet mignon, chicken breasts in tarragon sauce, roasted potatoes, cakes, pies, tarts, fresh fruits, berries, and cheeses

For almost five minutes, the room seemed to have come alive.

It wasn't even five o'clock

Hundreds of gamblers - pretty young women, sweet-faced grandmothers, men in jeans and decoratively stitched Western shirts, retirement-age men in expensive but tacky leisure outfits, a few guys in three-piece suits, salesmen, doctors, mechanics, secretaries, Americans from all of the Western states, junketeers from the East Coast, Japanese tourists, a few Arab men - sat at the semielliptical blackjack tables, pushing money and chips forward, sometimes taking back their winnings, eagerly grabbing the cards that were dealt from the five-deck shoes, each reacting in one of several predictable ways: Some players squealed with delight; some grumbled; others smiled ruefully and shook their heads; some teased the dealers, pleading half seriously for better cards; and still others were silent, polite, attentive, and businesslike, as though they thought they were engaged in some reasonable form of investment planning

The game minimum was a five-dollar bet, and all seven seats were taken

"I've got a break coming up in five minutes."

She waited impatiently as the five minutes crawled by; she was never comfortable in a casino when it was busy

A five-piece band hammered out wildly amplified pop music from the small stage in the open cocktail lounge beyond and slightly above the slot machines

An overturned stool lay beside him, and approximately five hundred dollars' worth of green chips were scattered on the carpet

When the excitement wears off a little, they go to check out of the hotel, and they discover their three-day weekend somehow turned into five days

Hundred-foot-long signs-five - hundred-foot-long signs - towered five or even ten stories above the street, glittering, winking, thousands of miles of bright glass tubing filled with glowing gas, blinking, swirling, hundreds of thousands of bulbs, spelling out hotel names, forming pictures with light

Tina returned to her inspection of the carpenter's bill, and Angela was back at five minutes past four with thirty pages of data.

She'd work for another hour, until five o'clock, and then go home

Between the names of two high rollers were five lines of type that had nothing to do with the information she had requested:

For five or six months, I was an emotional wreck because every object in the house reminded me of Nancy

Or five

I'll be back in five minutes, and then you'll see how a true culinary genius operates."

The conversations were like those in which he was involved at work, eight or ten hours a day, five days a week and he didn't intend to spend a holiday nattering about the same damned things.

The guy was about five feet eight with a narrow face and a neatly trimmed blond beard

He could be at her place in five minutes.

In this residential neighborhood, the speed limit was twenty-five miles an hour

Eleven customers were clustered at the end of the long arm of the L, near the entrance, five on stools at the counter, six in the red booths

A large four-masted topsail schooner filled a five-gallon jug

Kennebeck had known Alexander for five years and had despised him from the day they met

"The temperature's dropped thirty-five degrees in there during the past minute and a half," Zachariah said worriedly

The temperature drops abruptly, stays down for two or three minutes, never longer than five, and then it rises to normal again."

Because of the foul-up at the Bellicosti place, George Alexander didn't get to bed until five-thirty Friday morning

Half an hour and five maps later, Tina's hand suddenly skipped across the paper as if someone had bumped her arm.

Plows had kept the blacktop clean, except for scattered patches of hard-packed snow that filled the potholes, and snow was piled five or six feet high on both sides.

Danny's instructions are to take a turn north, off this lane, after about five miles."

"We've gone almost five miles since we left the county road," Elliot said.

He started out of the forest, toward the county lane, which is about five miles from the turnoff to the labs, and after only three miles-"

"He must have reached the scouts five or five and a half hours after he was infected

"I don't know anyone in Pondicherry!" he said, but when he opened the envelope, five little orange pips fell on to his plate

'But one morning my father opened a letter to find five orange pips inside it

I thought it was murder, and I could not forget the five orange pips and the strange letters to my uncle and my father.

on the back, and five small orange pips

'Watson!' he said, 'I know the names of Openshaw's enemies! And now I'm going to send them a surprise! This will frighten them!' He took five pips from an orange and put them in an envelope

When he did tell me, Miquette had been successfully transmitted five or six times.

Shaking with fear, I did as he asked, and in less than five minutes I was back

Then I saw that the hands of the clock pointed to a quarter to five, which meant that it was really half-past four, so I got up and went to the sitting room

When he had gone, I tried to write my sermon, but at half past five, the telephone rang

I heard about it ten minutes ago, at five to seven

Because when that clock said twenty past six it was really only five minutes past, and at five minutes past I don't suppose Colonel Protheroe had even arrived at the house.'

'Point two five?'

At five-thirty, they were driven to the village

'In fact I was in my garden from five o'clock onwards yesterday and from there, well, I can see everything that is happening next door.'

She counted her fingers, 'One, two, three, four, five, six - yes, and a possible seven

And all the time he was keeping a second family - a former servant, and five children! What a terrible shock to his wife and daughter.'

Well, the telephone call was at about half-past five.'

I returned some time before five o'clock.'

It was written at six thirty- five and another person - the murderer - put the incorrect time 6.20 at the top.'

He'd only been there for five minutes

Yes, give me three nine - nine, not five.' And then, 'Hello - is that you, Haydock? Melchett speaking

My number is three five.'

At five-thirty, he telephoned the vicar from the North Lodge, pretending he was the wife of a dying man.

As it was then about a quarter past five, I went home, had some tea and walked up to the station to meet him.

If, on that Friday night, you had drawn a circle at a distance of five kilometres from Horsell Common, I doubt if there would have been one human being outside it, unless it was a relation of Stent, whose emotions or habits were affected by the new arrivals

Even within the five - kilometer circle, most people were unaffected

At about five o'clock the growing crowd in the station was greatly excited by the opening of the line between the South-Eastern and South-Western stations, which is usually closed

There was a man with his wife and two boys and some pieces of furniture in a cart, and close behind him came another one with five or six well-dressed people and some boxes and cases

A great cloud of dust, white under the strong sun, made everything within five metres of the ground grey and unclear

There were already around forty passengers on the boat, some of whom had spent their last money getting a ticket, but the captain stayed until five in the afternoon, picking up passengers until the boat was dangerously crowded

Everything was quiet through the afternoon and we started at about five o'clock along the blackened road to Sunbury.

Four or five little black figures hurried in front of it, and in a moment it became obvious that this Martian was hunting them

This machine was shaped like a spider with five legs and a great number of tentacles

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

These green stars - I've seen none for five or six days, but I've no doubt they're falling somewhere every night

Think of four or five of them with men inside, firing Heat-Rays back at the Martians!'

We walked for two hours, and it was almost five when we returned to Baker Street.

'Effie, my wife was a young widow only twenty-five years old, when I met her

They looked at all our luggage: a big suitcase, a small bag, two big hampers, some pans, some umbrellas, five coats and raincoats.

In the maze, they met some people who had been there for forty-five minutes

I said, 'We must be at Shepperton at five o'clock to meet George.'

There were five metal rods

For thirty-five minutes nobody spoke

In five seconds, we had the spoon

We were awake at five o'clock the next morning.

'However, there's a train that leaves Pangbourne after five o'clock

He is a charming man of about forty-five years old

When she came back five years later, at twenty years old, she could speak good French and knew how to cook, but she also knew chemistry.

Emmeline and Richard had five children between 1880 and 1889

Just five years later, in 1908, women pilots started flying

Of the five women, only Valentina went into space.

Women were in only five sports: sailing, golf, equestrian, tennis and croquet.

She had five brothers

She was number one for five years in total (1967- 1968, 1971-1972 and 1974).

Even he - a fifty-five-year-old man - could win against the best female players

The twenty-nine-year-old Billie Jean beat the fifty-five-year-old Bobby 6-4, 6 - 3, 6-3

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