Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] five [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to pick up and weigh that apple you are about to eat , you would find it weighed about five ounces . |
| 2 | An excellent example of perseverance and a rewarding exchange of information and plants can be found in correspondence between Philip Miller and John Bartram , although it covers only five years between 1755–1760 . |
| 3 | But the company accepts in effect it has just five weeks to find half a million pounds . |
| 4 | During this time it travels only five times its own length , and the widely spaced propellers allow it to turn in its own length at low speed . |
| 5 | It takes just five minutes for the interviewer to ask , ‘ So where did you get the name from ? ’ |
| 6 | It takes just five seconds for him to realize that there are only so many hours in the working day to establish the key priorities and apply his mind to them . |
| 7 | It takes just five seconds for him to eliminate the stress . |
| 8 | IT TAKES about five minutes in New Zealand to comprehend why the All Blacks are the best . |
| 9 | It takes about five minutes to set it up before you retire to bed , and if you come back downstairs for something you have to cancel it and start all over again . |
| 10 | It takes about five years for a top amateur to become a real Tour de France rider . |
| 11 | Now when you have a house full of furniture , it weighs about five tons usually . |
| 12 | It took nearly five minutes before Delaney , wearing a second set of earphones , looked up sharply to make sure that the radioman , swearing at the weird interference , could hear the stream of dots and dashes coming in . |
| 13 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 14 | It took just five days for ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ to give Rough Trade their first number one album . |
| 15 | The way he told it , it took maybe five minutes . |
| 16 | By selling 12 times as much wine as it did only five years ago , Australia outsells the US , and with the exchange rate currently working in our favour , prices are getting cheaper all the time . |
| 17 | It lasted perhaps five minutes more , and then her attention was rudely claimed from the cockpit . |
| 18 | And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms . |
| 19 | It brings together five brand leaders : White Horse — the leading standard Scotch whisky , IW Harper — the leader in the dynamic bourbon category ( the fastest growing sector in the Japanese liquor market ) , Hennessy Cognac and Moët et Chandon Champagne — leaders in their respective categories , and Tanqueray Gin — the leading premium gin . |
| 20 | everybody on that call , instead of sixteen channels on a card and there 's five people using it , it comes up five channels in use and blocks out number eleven so that nobody else can use it |