Example sentences of "[pers pn] is five [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scott 's estranged wife , Yvonne ( 25 ) , who admitted attacking the RUC constables , avoided prison because she is five months pregnant with McKinney 's child . |
| 2 | I would say it is five times more difficult than at any other time of the year . ’ |
| 3 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 4 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 . |
| 5 | It is five inches in diameter and single-sided , and comprises ‘ The Lord 's Prayer ’ . |
| 6 | They were the first national employees to receive service awards in Colombia , as it is five years since LASMO set up business in the country . |
| 7 | It is five years since Microsoft originally launched PowerPoint for the Mac and recently it had been outperformed by Aldus Persuasion and CA-Cricket Presents . |
| 8 | It is five years since Joan left Northern Ireland to join her husband Ted in Scotland . |
| 9 | IT is five years since 11 civilians were blown up by the IRA bomb at Enniskillen 's Remembrance Day Service . |
| 10 | By fence climbing and tarmac crossing it is 400 metres to the terminal building ; by the allowed route round it is five miles . |
| 11 | Set beside the River Steeping which becomes Wainfleet Haven , it is five miles from the sea . |
| 12 | But it is five months since Mr Hussein swallowed his neighbour and was instructed by the Security Council to disgorge it . |
| 13 | It is five months since she flew to America for a lifesaving bowel and liver transplant . |