Example sentences of "five [noun] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 because she about three pints , the pints a day the third pint cost you thirty five P and right , a four-pinter cost you a pound and two pence a pound and two pence , now work that out .
2 That 's five p and now you need
3 Healthy individuals regularly sleeping less than five hours or even as little as two hours in every twenty-four are rare , but represent a sizeable minority .
4 Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches .
5 But the four-ball format was unwieldy and led to extraordinarily long rounds of five hours or more .
6 forty , twenty five watts or less , forty watts nominal the ones I 'm running not through a hundred watt channel , er
7 Aftr the patient had remained in recumbent position for at least 10 minutes and the heart rate had reached a steady state , R-R intervals were recrded contrinuously for five minutes or over 170 beats .
8 If teachers and the head are in the playground for five minutes or so before the bell and if parents know that they will be welcome in classrooms for ten minutes or so at the end of both morning and afternoon sessions then good routines will be established and easily maintained .
9 There was the added complication that for the first time there would be a period of five minutes or so when I would have to shut inside my satchel not only my outdoor shoes but my gym shoes as well .
10 Try and keep the majority of writing to the period of five minutes or so after the interviewee has left , when you should sum up the points while they are fresh in your mind .
11 After five minutes or so , one Messerschmitt — flown by ‘ Jochen ’ Müncheberg — was seen suddenly to break away and dive out of the sun onto the moored Sunderland in Marsaxlokk Bay .
12 And if you despair of ever getting the baby 's pushchair anywhere near clean , or perhaps those muddy football and rugby boots , just spend five minutes or so on them with the Steamatic .
13 These sessions should not be too long , just five minutes or so , two or three times every day .
14 The " alert " is sounded and a plane flies overhead every five minutes or so — the usual monotonous droning sound of the engines is heard and now and then the pop-pop of the guns and occasionally you feel the sensation of a slight earthquake when a bomb drops —
15 We 'll quickly go through erm those , again that 'll take another five minutes or so , and er I 'll be surprised if you do n't find it quite interesting .
16 Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish .
17 ‘ If you look back in five minutes or so , you 'll see the best view in the whole place . ’
18 Breakfast in five minutes or so . ’
19 The secret is then only to stew the squid for another five minutes or so , to remove the squid and leave the rest of the ingredients to simmer and reduce until a thick black sauce is produced .
20 We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived .
21 ‘ I 'll check you again in five minutes or so , then . ’
22 If I allow other hon. Members to contribute , perhaps I could have five minutes or so , along with Opposition spokesmen , to make my wind-up speech and give a total justification of what the Government are doing .
23 After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb .
24 After five minutes or so both Rick and I were properly awake and using his scoop technique ( which incidentally had n't been quite perfected ) my first catfish was on the bank .
25 I want to concentrate , er for the next five minutes or so , on one of the main stories of the morning .
26 That well we 've seen some comic cuts things going in the last five minutes or so have n't we .
27 After five minutes or so , they did their deal and the black guy left in a jangle of car keys , a big bunch on an ostentatious metal Mercedes key-ring .
28 She thanked me every five minutes or so until we 'd finished .
29 When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so .
30 ‘ So , rather than drag her all the way back here for just five minutes or so , I thought we 'd go there .
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