Example sentences of "five [noun] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Robert Henry ( 1833–1916 ) , meteorologist , was born in Dublin 28 January 1833 , one of five sons and a daughter of James Smyth Scott , QC , a prominent Dublin lawyer , and his wife Louisa , daughter of Charles Brodrick , archbishop of Cashel , and sister of the sixth and seventh viscounts Midleton . |
| 2 | They were to have six children ( five sons and a daughter ) : Jean Baptiste ( b 1732 ) , Antoine Jacques ( b 1733 ) , François ( b 1735 ) , Eugène Menin ( b 1737 ) , Jacques Louis ( b 1740 ) and Marie Geneviève . |
| 3 | There is a danger , however , that number friezes badly used may lead children to relate for instance , five only with five ducks or a domino pattern . |
| 4 | Since World War II , births outside marriage have increased by five times as a percentage of all births in the United Kingdom , from 5% ( 1951 ) to 25% ( 1988 ) . |
| 5 | The height , with your bloody shoes on , cos I was gon na say I 'm five foot and a half inch and I 'm taller than you |
| 6 | THE LEYS , who have been a considerable force in schools ' rugby in recent years , prospered on the Austrian tour to earn five wins and a couple of defeats from seven games . |
| 7 | Its claims come less than five months after a Greenpeace report said that Aldermaston had an ‘ appalling safety record ’ of unreported deaths and fires , radioactive leaks and contamination of workers . |
| 8 | A Jordanian delegation attended all five sessions and a Palestinian delegation all sessions except the arms control talks . |
| 9 | Three gold , five silver and a bronze was the final count from a dry run Commonwealth Games tournament in which the best boxer award , plus a magnificent trophy went to the tall 20-year-old Woodvale lad , Stephen Kirk . |
| 10 | Five hens and a cockerel half-hopped , half-fluttered out . |
| 11 | Fox scored two tries , five goals and a neatly-taken drop goal . |
| 12 | So it 's a half amp so what sized fu and they would probably give you erm , are you going to use a three amp , a five amp or a fif or a thirteen amp fuse ? |
| 13 | There are only five pubs and a couple of discos in Lothian Road itself , though there are others in neighbouring streets . |
| 14 | He tried punch bread with sloppy groundbait for small roach , but when he changed to double squatt he added five skimmers and a few small perch . |
| 15 | Six people ( five Iraqis and a Jordanian ) were on May 19 sentenced by a martial law tribunal to prison terms of up to 15 years , having been convicted of collaboration with the Iraqi occupation forces in the first of a series of war trials [ see p. 38166 ] . |
| 16 | Though later when I did the piece in Vienna I was furious when the orchestra showed up with five basses and a dozen first violins . |
| 17 | ANOTHER schoolgirl has been sexually attacked on her paper round , five days after a 14-year-old was raped . |
| 18 | They are conceived of as a last resort when all else fails , including a mandatory three-day cooling-off period and a further five days while a ‘ conciliation commission ’ will attempt to produce agreement between the parties . |
| 19 | Make your title search four or five days or a week before completion ( five days if you think there may be a pending registration ) , to enable you to complete well within the period of priority that your search gives you — but remember that to gain full protection you must not only complete the purchase within that period , as with unregistered title , but must also within the same period lodge your application to register the transfer or mortgage . |
| 20 | The visiting students were unable to create scoring chances and could n't find an effective method of stopping Durham 's outstanding performer , full-back Tim Stimpson , who scored 28 points — three tries , five conversions and a penalty . |
| 21 | You know there was an old legal story er saying rather er that er in the first five years that a a j a man is appointed a judge he does n't know the job . |
| 22 | The proposal also included an offer to reduce the price of supplies in real terms over the first five years and a pledge that during the contract period prices would remain ‘ within the general movement of prices in the economy ’ . |
| 23 | On average it works out at about once every five years and a cost of many hundreds of pounds per fish . |
| 24 | Patients had to have had insulin treated diabetes mellitus for more than five years and a history of altered awareness of hypoglycaemia within three months of transferring to human insulin . |
| 25 | Legislative power is vested in a bicameral Parliament composed of a House of Representatives which is popularly elected for five years and a Senate appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister ( currently Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson ) and of the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 26 | In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen . |
| 27 | The 500 will feature up to five processors and a high performance memory bus . |
| 28 | The President 's dinner raised us erm fifty five pounds and a profit on the hoe-down of thirty five pounds . |
| 29 | About five pounds and a silver tray . |
| 30 | I think it was about five pounds and a silver tray . |