33410 examples of five in sentences

"Hoo's bin bed-fast aboon five year."

Four of the children were under ten years of age,five were capable of working; and, when the working part of the family was in full employment, their joint earnings amounted to 61s.

Just previous to the mills beginning to work short time, four of their five children had been lying ill, all at once, for five months; and, before that trouble befell them, one of the lads had two of his fingers taken off, whilst working at the factory, and so was disabled a good while.

Just previous to the mills beginning to work short time, four of their five children had been lying ill, all at once, for five months; and, before that trouble befell them, one of the lads had two of his fingers taken off, whilst working at the factory, and so was disabled a good while.

She resolutely took pen and paper, but the least thing seemed to distract her attentionthe coronet on the note-paper cost her five minutes of far-off reflection.

On Monday J.W. called up Pastor Drury and gave that gentleman, who was expecting it, a five-minute summary of his day with Marty.

Now, after five centuries, his native village is pointed out with pride to the traveller.

He culled and fitted to his sling Five pebbles, smooth and round; And one of these he meant should bring The giant to the ground.

c. The species represented by the Cut, has five rays, dividing into innumerable lines or branches.

The author of a treatise on this subject, tells the following anecdote, which may in some degree account for the numbers registered at Whitehall, (who were touched) which were from the year 1660 to 1664 inclusive, a period of five years, 23,601; and from May 1667 to May 1684, 68,506; viz.

At Rownham Ferry, five miles inland, near the entrance to Cumberland-Basin, the spring-tides frequently rise thirty-seven feet.

Still I could not discover what was within, but I called her name aloud several times, and in about five minutes after that, the whole circle of tremendous brutal warriors flung away their arms and retired backward, leaving an open space for me to approach their Queen.

In 1696, the foundation-stone of Greenwich Hospital was laid by John Evelyn, with a select committee of commissioners, and Sir Christopher Wren, precisely at five in the evening, after they had dined together, Flamstead, the royal astronomer, observing the time punctually by his instruments.

His family consisted of a wife and two daughters; Emma, the elder, was a girl of eight summers, and Anna, the younger, was about five.

It stood in a quiet nook in the midst of the woods, about five miles from the pleasant seaport where I was born.

My grandfather was somewhat infirm; my grandmother was a very vigorous person for one of seventy-five; this was her age at the time of my first recollection of her.

If you had made a false step, got into debt and ran away, or mistaken another man's wife for your own, or disappeared altogether under a cloud for a while, you could retrieve your honour, and, sinking at twenty-five or thirty, could come up from out of the waters at thirty-five as capable of enjoyment and almost as fresh as ever.

If you had made a false step, got into debt and ran away, or mistaken another man's wife for your own, or disappeared altogether under a cloud for a while, you could retrieve your honour, and, sinking at twenty-five or thirty, could come up from out of the waters at thirty-five as capable of enjoyment and almost as fresh as ever.

When that operation was completed,which, including his lavations, occupied about five minutes,he went up on the deck with the books for Mrs. Smith in his hand, and with Thomson's 'Seasons' in his pocket.

The Captain was a pleasant-looking, handsome man, about forty-five years of age, who had the good word of almost everybody on board, but who had not before spoken specially to Caldigate.

From one wretched vehicle they were handed on to another, never stopping anywhere long enough to go to bed,three hours at one wretched place and five at another,travelling at the rate of six miles an hour, bumping through the mud and slush of the bush roads, and still going on for three days and three nights.

If you can spend four or five pounds a-week each for the next month, so as to get help till you know where you are, it may be you'll turn up gold

'You go down there and take one of them picks in your hand for a week,eight hours at a time, with five minutes' spell allowed for a smoke, and see how you'll feel at the end of the week.

'It don't sound as it ought to do;not yet,' said Mick, after he had tried it about a dozen times in five minutes.

When they had been at work about five weeks there was a pole stuck into their heap of dirt, and on the top of the pole there was a little red flag flying.

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